Ravings of a Microsoft Evangelista
I have been with Polaris Solutions as an ALM Practice Lead since January 2011. As I go about my day to day, I often stumble across things I want to share out with the community. This is my soap box.
Ramp Up Training Now Includes Sharepoint Track!
New SharePoint for Developers Track – Part 1 As a developer, would you like to learn more...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 11/21/2008
Chicago .NET User Group Presents...
Focus: ADO.NET Entity Framework Speaker: Ram Marappan, RedPoint Technologies Location: Microsoft...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 11/17/2008
Indy TFS Meeting - Lap Around VSTS 2010 Presented by Paul Hacker
This month we are going to be talking about many of the new features of Visual Studio 2010. ...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 11/17/2008
Silicon Prairie Social's "Very Prairie Christmas 2008" Meets Soon in Chicago Suburbs
What's different from the July event at Mullen's? This is our Christmas gathering; it's a smaller,...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 11/14/2008
So Many Cool Announcements, Where to Start?
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 week on Channel 9 The week of November 10th is Visual...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 11/10/2008
Building Multi-Enterprise Business Applications on the Azure Services Platform
I friend and co-worker of mine, Wade Wegner, just shared this with me. Check it out, it's SO...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 11/02/2008
Best Reason Ever for a Ridiculous Tattoo and a Mohawk...
I tend to keep this blog more professional, but since diabetes has affected so many members of my...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/31/2008
Get ready to be inspired! PhizzPop Design Challenge in Chicago
The PhizzPop Design Challenge, hosted by Microsoft, is back for its second year, and we're joining...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/28/2008
VSTS User Group Meets in Chicago and Downers Grove Oct 29th and Nov 5th
On September 29, 2008, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Team System Development Edition will...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/27/2008
Latest and Greatest VSTS 2010 VPC Available Now!
Hey there all my techie friends! In honor of PDC 2008, we have just made publicly available...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/27/2008
MSDN Unleashed - SQL Server 2008 and Silverlight 2.0
MSDN Unleashed Join us at our MSDN Unleashed events for the latest tips, tools and technical...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/23/2008
Microsoft ArcReady - Professional Patterns on the Job
Professional Patterns on the Job You're smart. You deliver. What more could your company want from...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/23/2008
Great Article on Using TFS to Create a Robust Dev Environment
I just ran across a great article in Dr Dobb's Portal written by Stephen Rylander, a peer of mine at...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/22/2008
Can't Go To PDC? Attend the MSDN Developer Conference
The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready? Prepare yourself for a...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/17/2008
Channel 9 Videos I LOVE, Maybe You Will Too
Technorati Tags: Channel 9,LINQ,DSL,Domain Specific Languages,.NET Micro Frameowrk,Concurrent...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/15/2008
Silverlight and Expression Blend, New and Improved!
Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (RC1) This package is an add-on...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/15/2008
VSTS User Group Meets in Chicago Loop and Downers Grove Soon!
On September 29, 2008, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio Team System Development Edition will...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/13/2008
Missing Out on PDC? Get the Next Best Thing...
Live From PDC You may have heard about PDC October 27th – 30th in Los Angeles. Microsoft is...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/09/2008
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Web-Cast in November
SPECIAL EDITION - Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Web-Cast Find out how utilizing...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/07/2008
VSTS 2008 Overview Webcast Coming on October 23rd
Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Overview Recommended Audiences: Project Managers, Solution...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/07/2008
Moss Camp and Cloud Camp Coming to Chicago!
Cloud Camp on 10/21/08 CloudCamp is an unconference where early adapters of Cloud Computing...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/07/2008
IndyNDA and the TFS SIG Meets Again on Thursday, October 9th
There is some great stuff happening at IndyNDA this month. And of course, Paul Hacker has an...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/07/2008
WOW! The new TFS Power Tools are Coming and they are AWESOME...
Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release This is a major release that has been under development...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 10/02/2008
VSTS 2010: Check out All the Latest News!
So it is official, we are openly talking about the next major release of Visual Studio Team System...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/29/2008
Some Awesome Free Events in the Midwest for Developers
Barcamp Milwaukee BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open,...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/24/2008
Chicago VSTS User Group: Extending Team Foundation Server 2008-SP1
After a long summer hiatus, it's time for the next meeting of the Chicago Visual Studio Team System...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/23/2008
Cool New Team System Landing Pad - Team System Cafe!
A friend and counterpart of mine out of Detroit Michigan has created a brilliant new landing pad for...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/23/2008
VSTS User Group Coming Directly to You, Virtually That Is
Just got this bit of really exciting news from my friend and fellow ALM enthusiast in Indianapolis,...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/08/2008
Top 10 Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) Articles You Must Read
Thanks to dotnetcurry.com for this awesome article, these are among my favorite articles too! ...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/05/2008
Chicago Quality Assurance Association Presents...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:30 PM ~ 4:00 PM Test Automation Best Practices Program Overview:...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 09/02/2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training and Certs for Free!
I was trolling around the Visual Studio 2008 learning site and found all kinds of goodies. ...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/27/2008
MSDN Unleashed: Demystifying WPF and Developing Applications with VS 2008
Session 1: Demystifying WPF Today’s applications need to do more than simply work. They need...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/27/2008
Announcing the Debut of MVP TV!
In case you had not heard, the debut of MVP TV is today August 21st, 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/21/2008
September/October ArcReady: Architecting Modern Distributed Applications
Nearly every application we build today has dependencies to other systems. How do we design them to...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/20/2008
Chicago MSDN Event – Visual Studio 2008, WPF and Vista Security
MSDN Event – Visual Studio 2008, WPF and Vista SecurityJoin us for a 4 hour MSDN Event where we will...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/14/2008
Woohoo!!! SQL 2008, VS 2008 SP1, TFS 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 are Available NOW!
So SQL is a WEE bit late, I know :) But hey, it's here! Get more info on what is new and how to...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/12/2008
Indy TFS SIG - 1st Birthday Celebration and TFS Extensibility in August
1st Birthday Celebration and TFS Extensibility Presented by Paul Hacker Come celebrate the 1st...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 08/12/2008
I'm totally getting a mohawk! OK, just kidding...
So Microsoft has videos we see when we first start that talk about how Microsoft embraces our...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 07/31/2008
Hands On VSTS Training Coming to Indianapolis - Write Better Code with Team Dev!
Write Higher Quality Code with Visual Studio Team System for Software Developers This 2-day...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 07/30/2008
Codeapalooza Comes to Chicago!!
Codeapalooza? What the heck is that? Does that mean I get to code side by side with Pearl Jam, The...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 07/22/2008
July Indy TFS SIG meeting - Rosario TFS vNext
Rosario TFS vNext presented by Paul Hacker Join us as we look at the TFS vNext codenamed "Rosario"....
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 06/22/2008
Have You Checked Out Thirsty Developer Lately?
Some good friends of mine here at Microsoft, Dave and Larry, have a great pod-cast called Thirsty...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 06/15/2008
Our Very Own ALM Tools "Myth Busters"
In case you missed it, June 2nd through June 6th was "Myth Week". Mike and James from our DPE team...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 06/11/2008
Join Microsoft and Pluralsight in a timely discussion on Next Web
Date and location Friday, June 13, 2008 Microsoft Office - Chicago 77 W. Wacker Drive, Suite 2300...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 06/10/2008
New Edition of TFS Times Focuses on the Testing World!
Paul Hacker, our rock star MVP from Indianapolis, has done it again. He just released another...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 05/28/2008
PDC 2008 Site Launched
So before coming to Microsoft, I had never gotten the opportunity to actually go to a PDC. Yeah,...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 05/28/2008
VSTS User Group Talks about SCRUM Tonight in Downers Grove, IL
Please join us in DG this month for a great SCRUM with TFS discussion and demo. Feel free to invite...
Author: Angela Ann Dugan Date: 05/28/2008