Modern Tools For Modern Application Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s face it. It’s never been more challenging to deliver modern software that end-users want to use, wherever and whenever they want. The consumerization of IT means end-users have bigger ideas and higher expectations than ever. They’re showing up to work with their own tablets, mobile devices and laptops, and they are demanding to interact with business applications on every platform.

Through investments in development infrastructure such as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), organizations will meet the challenge of delivering modern apps.

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Microsoft pushing out IE9 via Windows Update; business web apps may be affected

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is being pushed out in June 2011

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will be pushed out through Windows Update in June 2011

As Microsoft plans on broadly rolling out Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) to users at the end of June 2011 by using Windows Update, according to official blogs, IT leaders will need to understand how this impacts their web-based applications.

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Episode 4 Dev Tools Q&A: The real reason for upgrading to TFS 2010

In the final segment of this interview series, I ask Adam Gallant from Microsoft what he believes is the real reason organizations should upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2010.

Do you agree? Please sound off in the comments below. Thanks for watching!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqO6ixGII8

Episode 3 Dev Tools Q&A: The coolest feature of TFS 2010

In this third segment, I talk with Adam Gallant about what he thinks is the coolest new feature of Team Foundation Server 2010.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmIJpMdvst8

Episode 2 Dev Tools Q&A: Why upgrade to TFS 2010?

This is the second in a video series where I had the chance to interview Adam Gallant at Microsoft. In this instalment, Adam talks to me about what he thinks are the main reasons behind upgrading to TFS 2010.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqyPPv_TyA

Episode 1 Dev Tools Q&A: Team Foundation Server 2010

I’ve  just arrived back to Softchoice Head Office after a quick information-gathering trip to the Microsoft Canada headquarters in Mississauga, ON. I’ve brought a bundle of answers back with me, which I’ll be unleashing over the next week in a new video series.

This Spring, Microsoft rolled out Team Foundation Server as a benefit to MSDN subscriptions – full server and CAL (everything you need to run Team Foundation Server). Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time with customers letting them know about this awesome tool they now have for FREE, and all of the reasons why they should use it (now)!

There are a few questions that pop up in almost every Team Foundation Server conversation. I took a list of them to my friend Adam Gallant at Microsoft (who happens to be Canada’s leading TFS guru) and collected his expert answers.

Here’s the first video – we cover the specific size your team should be to use TFS and we also go over the challenges of deploying. Enjoy and stay tuned for more videos over the next week.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ORlLvQPOZ4

Still to come:

  • Biggest Roadblock to getting set up with TFS?
  • Why would you move to 2010 from 2008?
  • What’s the coolest TFS functionality that few people know about?

If you have any questions, leave a comment and I will get right back to you. If you have a recommendation for another dev tools video, let me know, and I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for watching!