Entries tagged with patterns practices - Channel 9

RiSE at Patterns and Practices Summit

Peli de Halleux — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:52:00 GMT

On Nov 5th, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM MSDN Magazine hosted an evening with Microsoft Research and Wolfram Schulte.

geekSpeak recording: All About Team Build 2008 with Steven Borg

glengo — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:09:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right.

Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with Team Foundation Server can help developers zero in on bugs that "break the build". Breaking the build is bad, and we have a good chuckle about some of the stiff "penalties" that various development teams (even some within Microsoft) come up with for that infraction.

Also in this geekSpeak, get the scoop on what's on the horizon for setup and deployment projects, and hear about a great tool called WIX which makes building projects into MSI files super easy. Steven goes so far as to say that WIX actually changed the way he works, listen to him explain why.

Steven also gives tips on how many of you already have access to Team Foundation Server (and therefore, Team Build) and don't even know it. So it's easy to incorporate these tools into your software build process and, through the Continuous Integration they afford, drive up quality and enhance team involvement. As Steven says, it's like "a little bit of magic."

This geekSpeak was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

About our guest: Steven Borg

Steven Borg, a Northwest Cadence principal and the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) practice lead, works with corporations to improve their automated build process and overall software development process. In addition, Steven assists the Team System community as a Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and was a founding member of the Seattle-based VSTS User Group. Northwest Cadence is a Microsoft Certified Partner and VSTS Inner Circle partner that focuses exclusively on helping companies improve their Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System.

Turner Broadcasting - Agile Architecture with Don Browning and Peter Provost

Kirk Evans — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:47:32 GMT

I was able to visit Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta to see an old friend, Don Browning, and we were lucky enough to bring along Peter Provost to talk about agile methodologies, processes, and tools.

geekSpeak: The Web Client Software Factory with Paulo Morgado

glengo — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:33:41 GMT

This geekSpeak features Paulo Morgado (all the way from Portugal!) guiding us through some demonstrations of the Web Client Software Factory in action.

About our Guest

Paulo Morgado works at Espírito Santo Informá¡tica, ACE as a developer and software architect. He has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications (digital systems) from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia at Lisbon, a degree of licentiate in informatics from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova at Lisbon, and is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for the Microsoft .NET Framework. Paulo contributes to Microsoft Portuguese newsgroups and the PontoNetPT community, answering posted questions about .NET Framework software development. His growing interest in software architecture also drives his participation in the Portuguese Group of Software Architecture (GASP). Paulo's contributions to the community have earned him a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award.

ARCast.net - CAB in the Real World

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:08:20 GMT

Recently I spoke to a group of architects in Israel about their experiences using the Composite UI Application Block (part of the Smart Client Software Factory). It was an honest and open look at the value of composite applications and this very powerful application block.

ARCast.TV - CAB in the Real World

Ron Jacobs — Mon, 14 May 2007 14:26:45 GMT

Patterns and Practices - A Team of Thieves

Rory — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:59:39 GMT

This was easily one of the most enjoyable interviews I've gotten to conduct since arriving at Channel 9.

I had been wanting to interview Edward Jezierski, and we chatted about how the patterns and practices group at Microsoft was born, as well as how it operates.

Really, I went into this looking for a fun afternoon, interviewing an old friend, but as the interview progressed, I became more and more interested. The work they do is absolutely unique - the process sounds complicated from the outside, but they seemed to have little difficulty explaining how it all works.

At the end, we go for a brief tour of their offices, which is quite a bit more interesting than you'd think.

As for why I call them "A Team of Thieves" - just pay attention to how they started the group and turned it into a success through sheer force of will.

I've never heard another story like it. It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see in Dilbert.

There is some noise at points throughout the video, and I apologize for that, but we were recording in an office during normal work hours, and weren't sure how the execs would feel if we shut down the entire building to get some peace and quiet during the recording.

The information is worth it, though. These people have truly fascinating jobs...

ARCast.net - Mobile Client Adaptive UI

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:26:19 GMT

In the past year I finally purchased a Smart Phone. Now I have to say that on my previous mobile phones you could access the web but the screen was so small that I never really wanted to do it. But my new phone is a Palm Treo 700W which runs Windows Mobile 5 and is actually quite useful. I use it all the time to do email and I have actually purchased items on the web using that phone. Most experts predict that in the future more and more people will be using mobile devices to access the web and other business applications. In this episode we are joined by Daniel Cazzulino who tells us all about the patterns & practices Mobile Smart Client Software Factory.

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-Ron

Tour: Patterns and Practices Lab

Charles — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:12:20 GMT

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team recently renovated their development lab in order to better support their Agile development methodologies. Movable walls you can write on and “escape pods” are just a couple of the featured additions. Join C9 special correspondant Brian Keller and Patterns and Practices dudes Ed Jezierski and Peter Provost for a tour of their new digs. Cool!