OzTFS Weekly News #1
Welcome to the first edition of OzTFS Weekly News. In another one of my brainwaves and strategic discussion with Coatesy and Darren - I've decided to distill the signal from the noise of the mailing list.
It will be available on the mailing list itself, from my blog feed, or on a separate blog feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/oztfs/
What you can expect to see here is a weekly blog post that summarises the discussions from the list. It will be a great way for busy people to keep up-to-date with what's happening on the list without the daily chatter.
Don't forget you can always subscribe to the list yourself, or read the archives on the web .
Subscribers
Graph of the past week: http://www.holliday.com.au/storage/OzTFS_Subscribers_20060924_small.jpg
Introductions
I kicked off the list on Monday with a round of introductions. I was surprised to see we have a lot of international subscribers - which is great! We have people from Australia as far as Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Gold Coast. As well as some subscribers from other exotic places including Colorado , Tennessee, Redmond , Germany, India, UK, Denmark, Brazil and Latvia! Keep the introductions coming people.
Tools
Out of the introductions sprung some TFS tools that I'd never even heard of before, including:
- TFS Source Code Version Tree Browser (AKA Vertigo) - Similar to Tortoise SVN or Rational's version tree browser.
- Project BHAL - Team Management Application for TFS. Uses .NET 3.0 Workflow Foundation to wrap some workflow around TFS work items.
- WorkItem Object Mapper (WOM). Maps TFS WorkItems to Strongly Typed Objects.
- WorkItem Manager tool. Anthony Borton is working on a tool to move work items from one server to another, among other things.
Discussions
The main topics of discussion this week were around:
- Hosted TFS - What are the options available if you don't want to run your own TFS boxes? Amazon S3 is not one of them - it's Linux only.
- Database Integration in Builds - how to automatically build a database as part of your build process.
- Code Coverage and Web Applications Projects - how do you get it working?
- Folder structures in TFS Version Control - what's the "best" way?
TFS Jobs
Are you looking for people with TFS experience? Maybe even a TFS expert? Sick of vague job descriptions from recruiters that won't tell you the company offering the job?
I'm putting together a TFS jobs board. Contact me if you'd like to advertise a position on the board.
That's all for this week. Keep it real.
G.
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