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Are you heading to TechEd Australia 2010? You could win a new XBox 360

If you’re heading to TechEd Australia 2010 next week on the Gold Coast, make sure you call past the Enhance ALM stand and drop your business card in for a chance to win an XBox 360 s with 250Gb HDD, … Continue reading

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Australian ALM Conference Early Bird offer closes TODAY – 31st March

For anyone thinking about attending the Australian ALM Conference, today is the last chance you have to get the Early Bird price of $525 and save $129 on your ticket price. Remember, Microsoft’s launch event (9am-11am) is completely free (launch … Continue reading

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My talk with Joerg Lindner about the Australian ALM Conference

On a recent visit to Microsoft Australia’s head office in North Sydney, I had a quick talk (3mins) to Joerg Lindner about the upcoming Australian ALM Conference. You can check out the video on YouTube The conference is coming up … Continue reading

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It is possible to reduce Software Development cost by 40%

Does the title of this blog post sound interesting?  This is just one of the sessions being presented at the inaugural Australian ALM Conference. The conference is running in conjunction with the Microsoft Australia official launch of Visual Studio 2010 … Continue reading

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Who is speaking at the upcoming Australian ALM Conference?

The inaugural Australian ALM Conference is due to kick off in a little over 4 weeks and there is a great group of local and international speakers lined up to present at the event. Over the next few weeks you … Continue reading

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A weekend with Ken Schwaber

  Last weekend had some of the most glorious winter days I have ever seen in Seattle and rather than enjoy myself outside looking around, I chose to spend it with Ken Schwaber. Ken is a very well-known industry figure … Continue reading

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A boarding pass to TFS

I just found out that there is an airport with the code TFS. Cool! So in my own nerdy sort of way I think it would be fun to have a boarding pass with a destination shown as TFS. So … Continue reading

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“Pimp your Netbook” at TechEd Australia

If you’re heading along to TechEd Australia next week as an attendee, you’ll be getting a great new HP Netbook computer as part of your ticket. Enhance ALM in conjunction with Wardy IT Solutions and Portal Synergy will be exhibiting … Continue reading

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Running VSTS2008SP1 VPC under Windows 7 using Windows Virtual PC

Now that my demonstration laptop has been rebuilt using the Windows 7 Release Candidate, I need to get my standard virtual machines up and running for a demonstration tomorrow. After a bit of pondering I decided to give Windows Virtual … Continue reading

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Does TFS 2008 SP1 work with SQL 2008 SP1?

Today I was working with a client that wanted to install the recently released SQL 2008 Service Pack 1 on their TFS Server. They were eager to know if the SQL Service Pack would be compatible with TFS 2008 SP1. … Continue reading

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