The strongest articles on engineering excellence and technical leadership — ranked by substance, not recency. How this is ranked
Engineering as a Leadership System: Moving Beyond Frameworks
Delivery outcomes are shaped less by frameworks and practices than by the operating model leaders have designed. How an organisation's …
Why Most Companies Operating Models Fail in Dynamic Markets
A concise comparison of Predictive and Adaptive Operating Models, explaining why traditional structures fail in dynamic markets and how …
Telling People What to Do Is Not Leadership. It’s a Failure of System Design
Explores why real leadership means designing systems that enable team autonomy, flow, and accountability, rather than relying on …
AI Agents Lie About Being Done
My agent reported every task complete when half the tests were missing. Call that a lie if you like. The engineering problem is that the …
Don’t Manage Dependencies, Remove Them
Explains why dependencies are a sign of poor system design and outlines steps to eliminate them by aligning teams, clarifying ownership, and …
The Estimation Trap: How Tracking Accuracy Undermines Trust, Flow, and Value in Software Delivery
Tracking estimation accuracy in software delivery leads to mistrust, fear, and distorted behaviours. Focus on customer value, flow, and …
Is Agile Really Just a Mindset?
Explores Agile as a disciplined system of delivery, emphasizing engineering excellence, CI/CD, observability, and system design over mindset …
Stop Building Silos. Start Building Systems
Explains how fragmented automation and tool silos harm software delivery, and advocates for unified engineering systems and platform …
How to Build for Business Resilience and Continuity
Learn key strategies for building business resilience and continuity, including observability, system decoupling, routine deployments, team …
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Microsoft UK Team System Blog
Updates and insights from the UK Team Foundation Server team, sharing news, tips, and resources on Application Lifecycle Management and TFS …
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
Highlights the risks of deep vein thrombosis, genetic factors like Factor V Leiden, and calls for increased awareness, testing, and early …
Register For Beta Exam 71-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
Learn how to register for the beta exam 70-510 on Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, including dates, locations, and registration …
VS2005 - Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1
Learn how to resolve the "Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1" error in VS2005 by installing and registering capicom.dll for …
Some thoughts on .NET 3.0 from LinkedIn
Insights on adopting .NET 3.0 for new applications, its features like WPF, WF, WCF, CardSpace, and comparisons with BizTalk, plus upgrade …
Windows Mobile Device Center
Windows Mobile Device Center enables syncing and managing Windows Mobile devices on Windows Vista, replacing ActiveSync. Not compatible with …
The Windows Vista Ultimate Element
Overview of the Windows Vista Ultimate Element, referencing a related image and its context within technology and software discussions.
Microsoft: forget about PayPal, how about a MasterCard killer?
Explores speculation about Microsoft entering digital payments, comparing past attempts to rival PayPal and considering potential …
Software Development Industrial Revolution
Explores how industrialising software development with tools like Team Foundation Server boosts speed, collaboration, and scalability in …
Deploying Team Server
Discusses the challenges, costs, and benefits of implementing Team Foundation Server (TFS) for large development teams in a corporate …
Small / New business websites
Guidance on building a small or new business website, covering SEO, DNS, blogs, accessibility, choosing designers and developers, hosting, …
Outlook 2007 users angry? Well maybe not users
Discusses reactions to Outlook 2007's email format changes, noting that developers and designers are upset, while most users are unaffected …
hinshelm vs fernienator
A light-hearted comparison of gaming performance between the author and their brother-in-law, featuring Xbox gameplay and a personal …
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation Guide
Provides updated instructions for installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with SP1, including setup for Reporting and …
Team System Widgets
A regularly updated resource listing applications and web tools for Team System and Team Foundation Server, including insights on TeamPlain …
The trouble with IIS6, .pac files and DNS
Explains issues with serving .pac proxy files on IIS6 due to missing MIME types and how to resolve DNS for proxy appliances lacking host …
Gears of War Update starting 9-Jan-2007
Gears of War receives a system update on 9 January 2007, ahead of two new multiplayer maps and potential fixes for ranked match issues on …
Screenshots of Vista from 2002 to Today
See how Windows Vista evolved from its 2002 Alpha release through early Aero features in 2004 to its final design, with screenshots showing …
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
Discover practical tips to maximise LinkedIn’s potential for networking, job searching, sales, partnerships, and connecting with …
Performance Research, Browser Cache Usage - Exposed!
Explores how browser caching affects web performance, focusing on HTTP requests, resource loading, and strategies to optimise site speed and …
Windows Live Alerts
Windows Live Alerts notifies you of new blog posts, offering standard alert features with ads. Free to use and includes a link for your …
Vista Mobile Device Center
Discusses issues with syncing external SD cards on Windows Mobile devices using Vista Mobile Device Center, highlighting lost podcast sync …
Time That Task VSTS Check-In Policy
Explores a TFS check-in policy for tracking task time, discusses challenges like task switching, and suggests using an external app to …
Visual Studio SP1 and Team System SP1 are Released!
Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio and Team System is now available, featuring key updates and bug fixes. Includes download links and details …
Ahhh, the fun of deploying Team System in a large corporation
Guidance on deploying Team Foundation Server in large organisations, including database setup workarounds and links to official TFS …
Windows Live Writer
Write and edit blog posts offline, then publish them easily with Windows Live Writer; ideal for managing blogs without constant internet …
Windows CardSpace gets Firefox support
A new plug-in enables Microsoft’s CardSpace digital identity framework to work with Firefox, expanding browser support for secure online …
RDdotNET Project Created
A new RD.NET Community Foundation project offers extensible services for community sites, including globalisation, relationship management, …
Installing Visual Studio 2005 on Windows vista
Step-by-step guide to installing Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista, including common issues encountered and tips for a smoother setup …
Windows Vista: windows mobile device center
Guidance on installing and running Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista 6000 RTM, including beta availability and manual download …
.NET Framework 3.0
Explains the benefits of .NET Framework 3.0, focusing on WCF for cleaner, more efficient code and improved developer productivity in …
Codeplex Project: RDdotNET White Label
Open-source RDdotNET White Label project hosted on Codeplex, providing .NET solution resources and documentation for developers. Includes …
Web 2.0
Explains the concept of Web 2.0, highlighting its ethos, evolution from earlier web technologies, and why it has become a common term in …
Windows Communication Framework Evaluation
Assessment of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for enterprise web services, focusing on security, compatibility, and benefits over …
The most usefull .NET tool on the face of the planet!
Reflector is a .NET tool for decompiling, browsing, and analysing assemblies, helping developers understand and debug .NET code efficiently.
CafeMSN Prize
Awarded two Amazon vouchers by Microsoft for providing helpful answers on CafeMSN, earning a total of $20 in recognition of contributions to …
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User discusses difficulties with adding code to blog posts and expresses intent to improve and update previous entries once the issue is …
Custom UI colour scheme for Windows Forms .NET
Learn how to customise Windows Forms ToolStrip, MainMenu, and StatusBar colours in .NET by creating a custom ColorTable and applying it with …
Adding ToolStripPanel UI Adapter Support to the Composite UI Application Block
Explains how to extend the Composite UI Application Block to support ToolStripPanel UI adapters, enabling dynamic ToolStrip integration and …