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  • Visual Studio 2012 Performance Profiling Demo

    I spoke at TechEd Orlando 2012 last week and did a session called “Identity & Fix Performance Problems with Visual Studio 2012.”  I ran into some problems with my demos because my hard drives started failing soon after I got to Florida.  Let’s just say that multiple BSODs in the middle of a conference presentation…

  • How to get accurate Processor % numbers from VMWare during a Load Test.

    If you read this blog from time to time, you know that I do a fair amount with Visual Studio Load Testing.  Well, when I’m working with a customer who hosts their apps inside of VMWare, it’s always been a just pain to know what’s *really* going on with processor utilization inside the virtual machine…

  • Call to Console.WriteLine() crashes Visual Studio 2010 Load Test Agent

    This doesn’t make a shred of sense to me but I’ve been working on running some MSTest unit tests as part of a Visual Studio 2010 Load Test on a VS2010 Load Test Rig and ran into a very weird problem.  Most of the unit tests behave perfectly when run as part of a load…

  • Slides & Samples from my Visual Studio Live Vegas 2012 talks.

    I spoke at Visual Studio Live 2012 last week and, as promised, here are the slides and code samples from my talks.  Talk #1: Top 7 Lessons Learned On My First Big Silverlight Project Silverlight is tricky.  You’d think it’d be just like writing any other .NET app but there are some things that can…

  • Scrum vs. The Time Zone

    Scrum vs. The Time Zone

    I had a call from a prospective customer about a month ago — let’s call him “Bob” — asking for advice about rolling out Scrum at his organization.  It didn’t go well.  I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that it didn’t go well because Bob started by asking pointedly, “are you one of those…

  • Prediction: Windows Phone 8 with Windows 8 Kernel soon.

    As I was getting ready this morning, I started thinking about the technical hurdles that the Windows Phone SDK team must have around Windows 8.  I wonder if we’re going to see a phone (or at least a virtual machine) running on the Windows 8 kernel sooner than we think.  This whole idea has the…

  • “Scrum Under a Waterfall” at ALM Chicago

    I’m presenting my “Scrum Under a Waterfall” talk today (2/22/2012) at ALM Chicago.  Here’s the abstract: It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum — or at least Agile.  No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. …

  • “Scrum Under a Waterfall” at ALM Chicago

    I’m presenting my “Scrum Under a Waterfall” talk today (2/22/2012) at ALM Chicago.  Here’s the abstract: It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum — or at least Agile.  No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. …

  • Scrum: “It’s easy enough if you can figure out what to build.”

    The quote, “it’s easy enough if you can figure out what to build” comes out of an on-going discussion about project management that I’ve been having with my wife.  Her background is in biomedical engineering and she’s always been a little envious that (as she sees it) software is such a certainty.  In biology and…

  • Scrum: “It’s easy enough if you can figure out what to build.”

    The quote, “it’s easy enough if you can figure out what to build” comes out of an on-going discussion about project management that I’ve been having with my wife.  Her background is in biomedical engineering and she’s always been a little envious that (as she sees it) software is such a certainty.  In biology and…

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