Task 1000 in Team Foundation Server

I just noticed as I was putting some information into a work item in Team Foundation Server that our internal installation reached task one thousand today. Not bad for only a handful of folks actively using it – oh the stories some of those work items could tell!

The Trio: Three reasons to go to TechEd?

Paul, Geoff and Damian have all posted up their top three reasons for going to TechEd. Here are my top three:

• Catch up with co-workers face to face.
• Share the things that I am passionate about.
• Listen to people who are passionate about other things.

By the Community, For the Community

Well, Pete LePage has let the cat out of the bag about “By the Community, For the Community” along with Ken Cox. The idea is that a few MVPs from the ASP.NET developer community offer a few ideas about what community projects they would like to build and Microsoft (via the ASP.NET site) throws them out for everyone to vote on. Which ever suggestion wins the popular vote gets built!

Right now the votes stand at:

• Event Organisation Site (47%)
• Track Back for Everything (20%)
• Creating RSS and Atom feeds from your website (13%)
• Adding MSN Search to your website (7%)
• Creating a Mashup (14%)

I’m particularly interested in the vote since I’m going to be the first person cutting the code! At this point the Event Organization Site looks like its going to be the clear winner. It was actually one of my suggestions based on a requirement that I see to have a really targetted site for organising community events like Code Camp Oz.

One thing that I am not going to be doing is developing in a silo, and for this run I’ve got Jonathan Goodyear (thats right, the original angryCoder) as my co-pilot, or is that drill sergeant?