Eric Sink has linked to a sister company of SourceGear’s called Teamprise which is developing a plug-in for Eclipse which allows Eclipse users to work against the Team Foundation Server.
The objective seems to be to produce a commercial version of what we want to do with VSTS Eclipse. Although, since VSTS Eclipse hasn’t released any code yet they don’t have a lot of competition. Good luck to them!
John Lawrence from Microsoft has posted some impressive Visual Studio Team System dogfooding statistics. This is great stuff – but I’d love to see them give some kind of indiciation what hardware configurations that they are running these stats out on.
Wes posted up a piece about the new Office 12 user interface and provided a link to these screenshots (yeah, I know – you can get them on every street corner now).
As a fairly heavy Microsoft Outlook user I wanted to see what was being done to address some of the features that I wanted to have added to the overall product sweet around integration of OneNote and InfoPath into the messaging client. Unfortunately these pictures don’t reveal much – so I am going to have to keep looking.
Overall though – I do like where they are going with the look and feel of the product, they are going to be much more engaging and it pushes the powerful features right up into the end users face instead of hiding them behind a 32 x 32 pixel icon.
I think Readify will be dogfooding this stuff pretty soon . . .
Dave Glover has posted a link to the Master of Enterprise Architecture page at RMIT. Its an interesting idea – the thought that in a one and a half year (full time, three part time) course you can give students the information that they need to become an enterprise architect.
To be honest I am a little bit sceptical about these kinds of course offerings from universities, however, if they stick to their entry requirements then they do stand a chance of turning out reasonabily well exposed IT professionals.
The problem with any curriculum development is of course keeping it current, and over the next two years our industry is set for a bit of a shake-up that may invalidate long established architectural principals – if the lecturers aren’t out there in the industry getting their hands dirty they may not be able to pass on critical information.
Based on the available information the course will cost approximately $19,000.00 without factoring in other expenses associated with study. I suspect that for this type of course many students will be sponsored by their company.
I’ve had my head down for the last month getting stuck into various technical activities ranging from consulting, coding and preparing and delivering presentations for TechEd and user groups.
As a result I haven’t been able to post up to my blog as much as I would have liked to and I’ve got a huge backlog of posts from other peoples blogs that I want to respond to.
Currently I have one thousand, six hundred and five unread blog entries and about fifty to sixty that I have already flagged for follow-up. In that lot there is a lot of PDC related material including – but not limited to:
And I don’t just want to post about it – I want to get my head right around all of this new technology. Some of these technologies I have already been looking at for a while now but the PDC tends to mean that things have evolved a little bit.
Next week I am heading off to Redmond for the MVP summit where I am sure we are going to get a second helping of all the content that was delivered at the PDC as well as some face time with the teams themselves.
I figure if I spend my time this weekend and during the week getting myself up to speed I should be well prepared. Wish me luck – and watch out for the wave of posts!
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