May 2004 - Posts

The [new] Future of Visual SourceSafe
With the recent announcement that Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) will include a brand spankin’ new source control system , many customers down here at TechEd have been asking me how or if this announcement affects the future of Read More...
Posted 28 May 04 03:49 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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TechEd Notes: SCC for Team Foundation Presentation
I’m sitting here in the San Diego Convention Center ’s Tent Pavilion in cabana #6, listening to Doug Neumann , the source control PM on the Visual Studio Team Foundation team, talk about how to manage software configurations with Visual Studio Read More...
Posted 26 May 04 06:02 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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Brian Harry Blogs
This morning I sat down with Brian Harry and helped him set up a blog on blogs.msdn.com. Brian is the product unit manager (PUM) for Visual Studio Team Foundation, which his team is developing down in North Carolina. Josh Ledgard recently posted a bio Read More...
Posted 26 May 04 04:33 by KorbyP | 1 Comments   
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TechEd: The Main (Source Control) Event
If you are a source control user and you’re lucky enough to be at TechEd 2004 in sunny San Diego [one moment, please... yes!yes!yes! ] you do not want to miss tomorrow’s big event: The Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation source control breakout Read More...
Posted 26 May 04 04:16 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Technical Dogumentation
For a city of its size, the streets of San Diego are remarkably well-designed, user-friendly, “nuisance free“, and well documented. Crosswalk Interfaces In the vicity of the San Diego Convention Center, crosswalks are well marked, well-lighted, Read More...
Posted 26 May 04 12:20 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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TechEd Cabanas
3:40PM I’m sitting here on a couch in the community cabanas with Brad Abrams , Kit George , Anders Hjelsberg, and Doug Neumann. Brad is signing books to give away at one of Kit’s sessions. Anders says that he doesn’t blog because “I Read More...
Posted 25 May 04 04:15 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Self-Documenting SCM Software
Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) won’t RTM for another year, or so. And while many of the major architectural design decisions have already been made, our software configuration management (SCM) lexicon remains somewhat in flux; and rightly Read More...
Posted 25 May 04 02:34 by KorbyP | 7 Comments   
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Microsoft's New Source Code Control Application
WoooHooo! I can finally write about the project I've been working on these last few months: Microsoft's source control solution for the Twenty First Century: Source Code Control Services for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (its friends just call Read More...
Posted 24 May 04 12:43 by KorbyP | 49 Comments   
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TechEd Dawns
San Diego is awakening to a city full of computer geeks. The sky is overcast and gray. TechEd 2004 commences at the San Diego convention center this morning. My hotel desk is littered with computer peripherals and “collateral“. I look west Read More...
Posted 24 May 04 07:44 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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The Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy
I am currently working my way through a book entitled, The Real State of the Union: From the Best Minds in America, Bold Solutions to the Problems Politicians Dare Not Address , which is published by the New America Foundation . One of my favorite chapters, Read More...
Posted 23 May 04 10:59 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Pin: the “Share my greatest, not my latest” Feature in VSS
If you code like me, your latest version of a file or project is almost never your greatest. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mark a version of a file or changeset as “use this one!” so that your teammates would stop bugging you Read More...
Posted 21 May 04 01:17 by KorbyP | 5 Comments   
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The New Blogonauts
In a miraculous twist of fate, two of my friends and co-workers chose today, my Blogiversary , to join me on blog line. Please welcome Brian White and Rob Caron to the blogosphere. I also recommend and have high hopes for Buck Hodges ' new blog. Subscribed: Read More...
Posted 20 May 04 06:03 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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My Blog Year in Review
It is often said that weblogging really took off on the day when you started blogging...or when I started blogging, as the case may be. This adage reminds me of a question that all Microsoft employees are asked on their first day of work. Q: What is the Read More...
Posted 20 May 04 05:55 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Happy Blogiversary to Me
One year ago today, I timidly posted my first external blog posts: A Few Good Books , Blogregator: VS.NET Start Page Custom Tab , and three others that no longer exist. The deleted ones passed the writer's stress test but failed the managerial acceptance Read More...
Posted 20 May 04 05:48 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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Reallocating Unused TV Spectrum (to the People!)
Is the FCC capable of acting in the interest of individuals, startups, and free enterprise at the expense of entrenched special interests like TV broadcasters in the US? Apparently, they're capable of thinking about doing what's right and for that, a Read More...
Posted 18 May 04 04:08 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Source Control Webcast, Now On Demand
The Webcast in which Alfredo Mendez, star PM on the Visual Studio team , discusses the future of source control integration in Visual Studio is now available: on demand , on the Web, all the time. Tell us what you think! Was this a good subject for a Read More...
Posted 11 May 04 04:22 by KorbyP | 2 Comments   
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SourceSafe and WinDBG
[ Updated May 11, 2004 to fix gnarled grammar] If you are interested in automatically retrieving versioned source code files from Visual SourceSafe during a debugging session with WinDBG, just email me your address and I will send you tools and scripts Read More...
Posted 10 May 04 04:22 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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Warchalk-Proofing Redmond
I received an invitation to an MSR -sponsored presentation about " Mesh Networking " today. The summary includes, “ Community mesh networking is disruptive to the current residential broadband Internet access paradigm, which relies on cable and Read More...
Posted 06 May 04 03:34 by KorbyP | 9 Comments   
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Must See TechEd
There are a jaw-dropping 844 events from which to choose at TechEd 2004. When confronted with so many options (and such a kludgey search mechanism ), I turned to my trusty blogroll. Here's a list of folks who have been blogging about the sessions they Read More...
Posted 05 May 04 03:38 by KorbyP | 6 Comments   
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Google's Quiet Launch?
http://www.google.com/blog/ Read More...
Posted 04 May 04 09:50 by KorbyP | 3 Comments   
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Many Oceans to Cross
I've traveled everywhere in red, except for Alaska. Looks like I have some traveling to do. Any suggestions for a December vacation? create your own visited country map Thanks to Heather James for the link. Read More...
Posted 03 May 04 08:52 by KorbyP | 8 Comments   
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Happy Birthday Many2Many
Thanks in large part to the folks who write Many2Many , it's been a great year for me. Keep up the great work. If you're just a wee bit interested in social computing but only have time to track one feed on the subject, I suggest Many2Many , which aggregates Read More...
Posted 01 May 04 12:36 by KorbyP | 0 Comments   
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