I read some advice somewhere about Las Vegas: “let the tiger come to you” that is, of course, a reference to the hysterical film The Hangover. I think the same logic can be applied to the MMS conference … it would be really easy to look at all of the incredible content and opportunities to…
I read some advice somewhere about Las Vegas: “let the tiger come to you” that is, of course, a reference to the hysterical film The Hangover. I think the same logic can be applied to the MMS conference … it would be really easy to look at all of the incredible content and opportunities to…
Chris Ross from Catapult (recently named as a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, the force behind SCSM.US, and the SCSMUS user group) was asked to moderate a BOF session at MMS 2012. If you are at MMS this will be a great one to check out! Information is below: Title: Self-Service Portal with Service Manager…
I just finalized on planning to moderate two sessions on "New to Microsoft System Center 2012" at MMS 2012. With all of the new features coming to the System Center 2012 stack these should be great discussions! Abstract: "The long-awaited System Center 2012 product release is here! In this Birds-of-a-Feather discussion we will have an…
If you are a developer that writes code (yes, some don’t), you’ve inevitably been boxed into the “refactoring justification corner”. At some point you realize that a task you’ve been assigned affects more than just the code you thought it did, and that you’ve got a deeper design change to deal with. Earlier in my…
So I was very lucky and won a Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone from @MobieChick! This was awesome, as I was debating how I could get my hands on this Flagship phone from Nokia and AT&T. I was nowhere near being able to get the 900 at the reduced $99 rate with a new two…
I attempted to create an RSS in an MVC 2.0 application using my typical C# Web forms approach and received the following error: OutputStream is not available when a custom TextWriter is used. The main reason for this is that MVC Views assume the request will be in standard HTML and so it switches the…
I’m taking a break from my posts on continuous delivery to talk about a related trend that continues unabated. Ask yourself, have you ever heard any of these phrases uttered in your delivery process (or perhaps said them yourself)? “That algorithm is simple and doesn’t require testing.” “Only a few of our customers use that…
Our Houston office recently closed a whopper of a deal for a global non-profit: the client signed a Net New EA with Microsoft, valued at $2.5 million per year for three years! Fantastic work, Houston! Tired of relying on Lotus Notes for email and applications, and wishing to upgrade their Windows XP environment, the client…
My post yesterday touched on one of the subjects related to software development that has really crystallized some of the process breakdowns I see in too many organizations out there. There is much time spent measuring developer output, but missing the overall cycle of going from idea to users. When organizations begin to measure this,…
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