 In this episode we sit down for the last time of 2008 and have a relaxed chat with Jeff Beehler, Team System Chief of Staff. We discuss the history of Team System, how the teams in Microsoft go about shipping the Team System product and Jeff throws in some teasers about what will be coming along in the near future.
Play Now: A Chat with Jeff Beehler, Team System Chief of Staff
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As usual please send any feedback to radiotfs@gmail.com. We didn't get chance to pick a competition winner from Show #14 so we will do that next episode. Have a good New Year everyone, see you in 2009!
In this weeks episode, we have a chat to catch up after our past few Road to Rosario specials and talk about some of the announcements from PDC 2008 that got us excited.
Play Now: PDC 2008 Highlights
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Finally, towards the end of the podcast we talked about the new Teamprise Remote Accelerator and Martin offered the following competition:
"In 100 words or less, tell us an imaginative way that you would use the Teamprise Remote Accelerator"
Send entries to radiotfs@gmail.com before December 12th. Paul and Mickey will pick a winner who will receive a copy of the Remote Accelerator (worth $99) free of charge.
In this week's "Road to Rosario" special, we get to sit down and chat with Dr James A. Whittaker about software testing and how Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test will change the paradigm for software testing tools.
James Whittaker has spent his career in software testing. He was an early thought leader in model-based testing where his PhD dissertation from the University of Tennessee became a standard reference on the subject. While a professor at Florida Tech, he founded the world’s largest academic software testing research center and helped make testing a degree track for undergraduates. Before he left Florida Tech, his research group had grown to over 60 students and faculty and had secured over $12 million in research awards and contracts. During his tenure at FIT he wrote How to Break Software and the series follow-ups How to Break Software Security (with Hugh Thompson) and How to Break Web Software (with Mike Andrews). His research team also developed the highly acclaimed runtime fault injection tool Holodeck. Dr. Whittaker currently works at Microsoft as a Software Architect for Visual Studio Team System where he is busy transforming his testing ideas into tools and techniques for developers and testers. He dreams of a future in which software just works. Links from the show:
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In this second of our special Road to Rosario series we talk with Cameron Skinner about the re-birth of the Architecture tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team. He is responsible for overseeing the Team Edition – Architect product line. Prior to Microsoft, Cameron was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Cameron enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and playing his acoustic bass. Links from the show: If you are interested in this interview and would like to see the tools in action, then also be sure to check out the Channel 9 interview with Cameron that has recently been posted. Direct Link to the Show
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We're very lucky to have been granted privaledged access into the Team System team as they prepare to show us what they have been working on for the next version of Team System which has the codename of "Rosario" but will have the official name of Visual Studio Team System 2010 when it is released. PDC will be the event where they really start talking and showing us early builds of Rosario. But we are going to be giving you the inside track here, for free, over the next few weeks on RadioTFS in our special "Road to Rosario" series.
First can we thank Chuck Sterling at Microsoft who is the community lead for Team System, and has been doing all the hard work tracking down our guests for us.
In this show we talk with Habib Haydarian about the great new features coming up in the VSTS 2010 Development.
Habib is a Lead Program manager on the VSTS Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied computer science at the Australian National University in Canberra. While not at work, Habib spends his time playing with robots, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favorite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label "RUNTIME".
Also, as you may have heard, Microsoft recently announced the fantastic news that from October 1st 2008, ANYONE that has purchased Team System Development Edition or the Database Professional Edition with software assurance will get the other product included for free. That means that if you have a MSDN premium subscription with the development edition (like many people do who had MSDN universal before that) then you will be able to download and install the Database professional edition - today, for free. Equally, if you have DataDude, you can get the Development Edition for free.
For more information about the database professional side of the product, have a listen to Episode #9 with Gert Drapers. In this show we concentrate on the other parts of the product.
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In this episode, we sit down and take a long hard look at Check-in Polcies in Team Foundation Server. What are they, how do you create your own and most imporantly when you should and shouldn't use them.
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In this first episode back from the summer break we talk about the features available in TFS Version Control and talk about some of the fundamental concepts that you should understand to make your life easier. Don't forget to stay tuned all the way to the end when Martin offers up a brainteaser for everyone and Paul goes crazy and offers a FULL copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite to a lucky listener drawn at random who provides a correct answer to radiotfs@gmail.com before the end of August 2008. If that is not enough for you, Mickey is running a competition over at Team System Rocks where you could win a years MSDN Premium Subscription with Visual Studio Team Suite. Some links from this show: Don't forget that you can subscribe to the show using the RSS Feed in iTunes or Zune ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiotfs), you can also listen to the show direct using this link ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/radiotfs/~5/356228001/radiotfs_008.mp3). For feedback or suggestions for futures shows please contact us at radiotfs@gmail.com or leave a comment.
In this episode we have a discussion on the features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. Some links from this episode:
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In this episode we talk about many of the new features in the beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008, Service Pack 1. Links from the episode are: Click here for a direct link to this episodeIf you have any questions that you would like answered, or if you have
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In this episode we attempt to answer some of the common questions we hear people ask about Team System including:
- What is Team System?
- Which edition is right for me?
- Why can't I find Team Foundation Server on MSDN?
- What is Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition?
- Is VSTS 2005 compatible with TFS 2008?
- Why can't I see Team Foundation Server when I install Team Suite?
- What are my options for migrating from my old system(s) to TFS?
- Can I use TFS with VB6, .NET 1.1, Eclipse etc?
- What is a Team Project - how should it be scoped?
- I deleted a file locally, I do a "Get Latest" and TFS doesn't download it - why?
As well as the usual sprinkling of tangents along the way.
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In this episode we take a look at Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition. We cover the functionality that was included in the 2005 release as well as talk about the new features in 2008 and have the usual sprinkling of tangental discussions along the way.
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RadioTFS is back, and with some fresh changes. First change is, we've added a third host: Martin Woodward. Don't know who Martin is and want to? Then go listen to our latest podcast, RadioTFS Show #2 - What's new in TFS 2008 and Should You Upgrade.
Next change is, the RSS feed is different. So if you are using the old RSS feed, you won't see the new show. Click here to get the latest RSS Feed.
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We are looking for feedback and for listener questions. So if you have any feedback on the show, what you like and don't like, things you would like us to cover, anything, send that feedback to radiotfs@gmail.com. Also, we are looking for listener questions that we can answer during the podcast. So send those to us as well at radiotfs@gmail.com.
We are looking at trying to do this bi-monthly, but given that all three of us have hectic schedules, as well as Martin lives in another country, don't hate us if we don't hit that schedule every time. I'm not sure what the topic of the next podcast will be, but look for it in a couple of weeks.
Paul Hacker (editor-in-chief of TFSTimes.com) and Mickey Gousset have decided to try something new. We've created a podcast called Radio TFS where we wax eloquently (or ramble on, take your pick) about all things Team System and Team Foundation Server. For our first edition, we talk about us a little bit, and focus a good bit on Team Build.
You'll be able to tell when you listen to it that everything is completely unscripted. We did some minimal planning, but wanted to keep it kind of natural. Also, we are using Skype to do this, as Paul and I live across the country from each other. As such, my audio is a little low. We'll see what we can do to fix that at some point, but remember, this is a bootstrap operation.
The one thing I did find from this, and I think Paul will agree, is that it was a lot of fun. Twenty minutes had passed before I realized it. Paul and I are going to try and crank these out on at least a monthly basis, and possibly even more frequently.
So, go give the podcast a listen, and then email us and tell us what you think. Let us know what you liked and didn't like, or any Team System topics you would like to cover in the future. Heck, let us know if you'd be interested in being interviewed for the show.
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