Note worthy
I have been very focused during the day on a project, and my evenings have been taken up a lot with VSTS Rangers work, so the blog has lagged a bit. Here are some things you should be aware of (if you follow me on Twitter, then you’ve probably already heard these in 140 characters or less):
I was awarded the title of VSTS Rangers Champion – this is a great honor since it’s a peer vote from VSTS External Rangers (no Microsoft staff) and MVPs for involvement in the VSTS Rangers projects.
The VSTS Rangers shipped the alpha of the integration platform for TFS 2010 – this is important for me because it means some of the bits I’ve worked on are now public, and I’m expecting some feedback to improve them for beta and release next year. It’s also important since my big contribution to the integration platform, which is an adapter I’ll cover in future blog posts, has a fairly stable base.
Dev4Dev’s in coming up in just over a week. This is one of my favorite events because it really is an event for passionate developers – they even have to give up a Saturday morning for it (no using an event to sneak off work). I’ll be presenting on Visual Studio 2010! Based on my first dry run to an internal audience at BB&D last week, it should be great. Two more of my BB&D team mates will be presenting: Zayd Kara on TFS Basics and (if memory serves me) Rudi Grobler on Sketchflow!
The Information Worker user group is really blowing my mind with its growth – on Tuesday, we had 74 people attend our meeting. For a community that had only around 100 people signed up on the website at the beginning of the year, that’s brilliant. Thanks must go to my fellow leads: Veronique, Michael, Marc, Zlatan, Hilton, and Daniel. We’ll be having our final Johannesburg event for the year on December 2nd (corrected from "the 2nd"), and it will be a fun Ask the Experts session.