SDS, the company I work for, has started fostering Tech Specialists positions. These are positions in which one of our consultants chooses to become intimately familiar with a specific technology or product. Ryan Cromwell has become our TFS Tech Specialist. He’s currently creating the guidelines for how SDS should use TFS as a company (for when we run our internal projects or remote projects). As part of these guidelines Ryan is producing 10-minute long “How To” screencasts.
Last weekend was the devLINK 2008 conference in Murfreesboro, TN. This was an awesome conference.
A lot of people have already put up their take on the conference, but for me, the Open Spaces made the event. There were a lot of great conversations. The essence of some of these open spaces sessions were captured on a new wiki that sprang up after the event. I hope to see this wiki grow in the future as we have more open space events.
Did you know that Visual Studio 2008 has samples of code out of the box? Well, if you choose to not remove them from the install that is. You can reach these by clicking on the Samples menu item on the Help toolbar menu. These include samples in VB.NET, C# and C++ for things like: LINQ, PInvoke, Yield, Data, generics, etc. If you are new to .NET 3.5 this may be worth a look through.