.Net Jonesie - Back at work catch-up

Monday, January 16, 2006

It's been a great holiday. I've done very little and I'm feeling really relaxed and stress-free on my first day back at work. Here's a bit of a catch-up of some stuff, no particular order.

Some nice Team System 3rd party stuff I'm testing. I'll report on these more thoroughly soon.

TeamPrise preview 4 - tried preview 3 and it's not bad - but limited
TeamPlain Web Access - haven't tried yet but it looks to be more extensive than TeamPrise
TeamLook - integrates work items with Outlook - seems to work fine so far

From the blogsphere:

AfterMail bought by Quest - fantastic news for Rod and his crew and the New Zealand IT industry
Team System supports team size of 3500.
RC not far off
Some Cool Visualisers
CVS, Subversion & RCS to TFS conversion tools

What I did on my holidays:

Installed DotNetNuke 4.02 and used it to create 2 new sites for the NZ .Net User Group. jobs.dot.net.nz is not far off being ready. The new NZ .Net site still has quite a bit of work to do - hopefully it'll be done around February.
Created a new site for a new user group. My wife, Trish, uses Microsoft Dynamics Nav (formally known as Navision). She is also involved with the start-up user group for this so we have created a site for this using Community Server 2.
Did some work on DNN 3.2.2 for Tim.
Did some gardening and extended the driveway.
Was best man at a wedding/new years eve party (a combo deal)
Hosted Christmas dinner and a couple of barbies for the family and friends and neighbours
Went to a couple of barbies
Went into work once to make a phone call and check when I was supposed to return to work

Roll on 2006. I hope to:

Get TFS RTM installed and working
Get other Airways Teams using TFS
Expand my own team
Finish 1 project! Any one will do...
Trips to South Africa & Redmond (maybe) again
Organise a community developer conference
Attend TechEd (maybe)
Organise 10 user group meetings - first one in a couple of weeks so I better get cracking on that!
Lose 10kg

Monday, January 16, 2006 7:32:26 AM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)

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