Jeff Beehler, thanks for pointing us to this.

Finally, some documented Branching Guidance with Team Foundation Server from Microsoft .  This includes a section on how Microsoft is using branching using "Feature Crews".

Doug Neumann is a program manager on Visual Studio Team System's Source Code control system, and I found the video Branching 101 with him very useful.  However, watch him squirm in his chair when asked about when should a client consider branching, or what is the right branching mod ...

If you are like me and are hooked on Test-Driven Development and Design.   You go to great lengths to test your work even when testing goes against the grain.  While writing tests, I have encountered multiple instances where my test needed to setup data in a particular fashion, so the test could validate both success and failure situations.  In this instance, the test was validating data and formatting in an excel spreadsheet.  The easiest way to includ ...

The Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals version of Visual Studio is a welcome addition to the team suite.  It fills a gap for projects that do not have a dedicated development dba.  Using this type of project in a team setting takes some discipline to continually integrate your changes and refresh your local database instance with the latest version from source code control.  I have seen the database project type used with Team Foundation Server and subversion source code management tools.< ...

After using Visual Studio 2005, I realized my typing speed has increased drastically.  So much so, that Visual Studio’s text editor was lagging behind my blazing fingers, NOT!!!

If not already, the following tools should be part of every Team Foundation Server (TFS) admin's toolbox.

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool - Although verion 1.2 stills has some bugs that require the application to be restarted, I rely on this tool heaviliy for administering which users have access to which team projects.  This tool provides a single user interface for managing permissions on Team Foundation Server (TFS), SQL Server Reporting Services, and Sharepoint Services.  I highly recommend this tool; just use it with a little patience.

When naming our child, my wife and I came up with the following requirements.

• name should be fairly unique according to the Social Security Administration
• name can not be shortened into a nickname.  This avoid scenarios where later in life where financial and government agencies require the full name.
• common algorithms for generating a network login name should be reviewed so a username is not of a vulgar nature
  • Some examples for John Doe (jdoe, doejo, etc)
• Middle name should ...