John Lawrence (MSFT)
Managing development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System & Team Foundation
All the cool kids are talking about AJAX
It seems that everywhere I look today people are talking about AJAX. For a variety of reasons, web...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/24/2005
Rick LaPlante announces new entry level pricing for Team Foundation
Rick LaPlante just announced some great news - listening to customers In a nutshell, we're going to...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/12/2005
Team Foundation Chat today
I'm going to join a bunch of other Team Foundation folks in an online chat later today. See you...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/11/2005
Work Items are a permanent record
The topic of being able to delete Work Items from a Team Foundation server came up on the Forums...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/03/2005
Latest Team System Dogfood Stats (April)
Regular folks know that I've been posting Brian Harry's dogfood stats for a while. Today, looks like...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/28/2005
Very cute kid's blog template - virtual fridge
[definitely not Team System related] Some our best friends, Mike and Hester Higton, have just...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/27/2005
Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 Extensibility Kit is Live!
Ling Bao, one of our Team Foundation PMs just sent this around: The VSTS Beta 2 Extensibility Kit is...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/19/2005
Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 Now Available
At long last it's here! This is particularly significant for us, because it's actually the very...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/18/2005
More Team System Dogfood Statistics (March/April)
It’s a month since I last posted our previous Team Foundation Dogfood Statistics – and Brian Harry...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/08/2005
Team System will include a methodology for CMMI Process Improvement
We just announced that we’ll be shipping Team System with two methodologies out of the box: From...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/09/2005
More about John Lawrence
I realized recently that people reading my blog probably have no clue who I am or why I'm blogging...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/08/2005
Team System to be used in XNA Xbox game development plaftform
From a Microsoft press release today, ActiveWin posted this news. Today at the Game Developers...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/07/2005
Latest Team System Dogfood Statistcs
I thought folks might be interested in some of these numbers that Brian Harry just circulated...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/04/2005
More Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy goodness - text adventure game revived by BBC
(I posted a real Team System blog post yesterday, so I don’t feel so bad posting a frivolous...
Author: johnlawr Date: 02/24/2005
Team Foundation February web chat
Ling Bao, one of the Work Item Tracking program managers is organizing another Team Foundation web...
Author: johnlawr Date: 02/17/2005
Windows more secure than Linux?
Sam Jarawan just sent me a link to a Tom’s Hardware report that discusses some research from a Linux...
Author: johnlawr Date: 02/17/2005
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trailer looking good...
As a British geek, it's inevitable that I grew up loving Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To the...
Author: johnlawr Date: 02/17/2005
Team Foundation article posted on .NET Developer's Journal
I haven’t seen this article blogged yet, so here’s a pointer. My illustrious colleague Brian White...
Author: johnlawr Date: 01/18/2005
SourceGear software announces Linux/Solaris/MacOS client for Team Foundation
Erik Sink blogs about some very interesting news from SourceGear I'm writing this blog entry to...
Author: johnlawr Date: 01/12/2005
Team Explorer folder names in Dec Team System CTP
Bill Mattox asked about the Team Explorer folder names in a recent newsgroup post. I did notice...
Author: johnlawr Date: 01/10/2005
Paul Murphy is already having fun with the December Team System CTP
Paul Murphy has already posted 3 posts on his experience so far with Team System: Team System...
Author: johnlawr Date: 12/27/2004
December Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio Team System is available for download
Rob Caron already announced this on his awesome Team System blog – but he’s posted a few very...
Author: johnlawr Date: 12/23/2004
Work Item Tracking Extensibility
Steve Mathieu asked in a newsgroup post what our extensibility mechanism is going to be for the Work...
Author: johnlawr Date: 12/20/2004
Halo 2 statistics support RSS feeds
After all the discussion on Work Item Tracking and RSS based notification, it’s interesting to see...
Author: johnlawr Date: 11/10/2004
RSS or email notifications for Work Item tracking?
There is already a lot of discussion on Scott’s recent blog entry on Tracking Bugs about whether...
Author: johnlawr Date: 11/03/2004
ScottGu talks about Tracking Bugs on the ASP.NET team
Scott Guthrie has a really detailed post about how his team uses our internal tools to manage the...
Author: johnlawr Date: 11/03/2004
Shipping Software & Broken Windows
Micky Gousset added these comments in his Team System blog One thing I have found though, is that...
Author: johnlawr Date: 10/14/2004
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is a Good Thing
I just send this out in email to some friends and family, and this isn't exactly something we're...
Author: johnlawr Date: 08/26/2004
Visual Studio Beta 1 Refresh with Team System announced
Rick has announced on his blog that we've signed off on a new CTP of Visual Studio 2005. The...
Author: johnlawr Date: 08/25/2004
Bill Zentmayer is blogging
I just spotted that Bill Zentmayer has a blog. Bill and I worked together with one of the...
Author: johnlawr Date: 08/18/2004
My first wiki edit
Someone on the recently created internal Burton bloggers mailing list pointed out this cool Burton...
Author: johnlawr Date: 08/04/2004
Another new Team System blogger joins the Burton Blogroll
Kevin Kelly has just started blogging about Visual Studio Team System. Kevin and Brian White are...
Author: johnlawr Date: 06/02/2004
Useful collection of Visual Studio Team System Links
Neno Loje has collected together a useful set of Team System links at:...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/28/2004
Team System "official" blog - AskBurton
I'm just discovering how rapidly the Visual Studio Team System blogging universe is expanding. Here...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/28/2004
Blog reactions to Visual Studio Team System
Fahrid Mheir writes about his first reactions to Visual Studio Team System. He writes a neat summary...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/27/2004
All things must pass - time for something new
If you check my blog regularly you'll have noticed I've been rather quiet since the launch of Speech...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/26/2004
Great whitepaper on the Speech Server Log Analysis tools.
Written by my esteemed colleague Stephen Potter: Log Analysis and Tuning with Microsoft Speech...
Author: johnlawr Date: 05/06/2004
Web sites are failing visually impaired users - can the Speech Application SDK help?
The BBC has news of an interesting report: Websites 'failing' disabled users The key finding was...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/14/2004
Eric Rudder mentions the Speech Server launch on his blog
From Eric's blog, The Developer Life I had a chance to spend much of this past week in San...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/13/2004
Upcoming webcast on using Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) with Microsoft Speech Server 2004
This should be a very interesting webcast. There isn't currently any detailed coverage of CTI...
Author: johnlawr Date: 04/08/2004
Early adopters report benefits with new Microsoft Speech Server
Story in Computerworld about Microsoft Speech Server's early adopters. My favorite quote: “By...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/31/2004
Clarification: Speech Server 2004 and Speech Application SDK do NOT require Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005
One of the most frequent questions I was asked at the booth at VSLive/SpeechTek was whether the...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/29/2004
More VSLive official coverage
Kai-Fu Lee's official keynote: https://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2004/lee/ Picture gallery...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/27/2004
More pictures from the Speech Server launch
Bill announcing the launch of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 Richard demonstrating the Prompt Editor...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/25/2004
Transcription and slides from Bill Gates keynote at VSLive/SpeechTek
Complete transcription of Bill's speech - including a transcription of all the demos and the...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/25/2004
Bill Gates' Speech Server Keynote is online
Richard just sent me this link to the video of Bill Gates' keynote speech including the launch and...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/25/2004
Some photos from the Speech Server Launch
Richard Irving demonstrating the grammar editor Richard showing off the richer (and complex) power...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/24/2004
Microsoft Speech Server has Launched!
Speech Server 2004 has been launched! After 5 years of working towards this day I can say that it's...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/24/2004
New log analysis tools in Microsoft Speech Application SDK
As I mentioned in my last post, we've been working on some tools to analyze and report against the...
Author: johnlawr Date: 03/22/2004