John Lawrence (MSFT)

Managing development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System & Team Foundation

All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

It seems that everywhere I look today people are talking about AJAX. For a variety of reasons, web...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/24/2005

Rick LaPlante announces new entry level pricing for Team Foundation

Rick LaPlante just announced some great news - listening to customers In a nutshell, we're going to...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/12/2005

Team Foundation Chat today

I'm going to join a bunch of other Team Foundation folks in an online chat later today. See you...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/11/2005

Work Items are a permanent record

The topic of being able to delete Work Items from a Team Foundation server came up on the Forums...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/03/2005

Latest Team System Dogfood Stats (April)

Regular folks know that I've been posting Brian Harry's dogfood stats for a while. Today, looks like...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/28/2005

Very cute kid's blog template - virtual fridge

[definitely not Team System related] Some our best friends, Mike and Hester Higton, have just...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/27/2005

Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 Extensibility Kit is Live!

Ling Bao, one of our Team Foundation PMs just sent this around: The VSTS Beta 2 Extensibility Kit is...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/19/2005

Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 Now Available

At long last it's here! This is particularly significant for us, because it's actually the very...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/18/2005

More Team System Dogfood Statistics (March/April)

It’s a month since I last posted our previous Team Foundation Dogfood Statistics – and Brian Harry...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/08/2005

Team System will include a methodology for CMMI Process Improvement

We just announced that we’ll be shipping Team System with two methodologies out of the box: From...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/09/2005

More about John Lawrence

I realized recently that people reading my blog probably have no clue who I am or why I'm blogging...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/08/2005

Team System to be used in XNA Xbox game development plaftform

From a Microsoft press release today, ActiveWin posted this news. Today at the Game Developers...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/07/2005

Latest Team System Dogfood Statistcs

I thought folks might be interested in some of these numbers that Brian Harry just circulated...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/04/2005

More Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy goodness - text adventure game revived by BBC

(I posted a real Team System blog post yesterday, so I don’t feel so bad posting a frivolous...

Author: johnlawr Date: 02/24/2005

Team Foundation February web chat

Ling Bao, one of the Work Item Tracking program managers is organizing another Team Foundation web...

Author: johnlawr Date: 02/17/2005

Windows more secure than Linux?

Sam Jarawan just sent me a link to a Tom’s Hardware report that discusses some research from a Linux...

Author: johnlawr Date: 02/17/2005

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trailer looking good...

As a British geek, it's inevitable that I grew up loving Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To the...

Author: johnlawr Date: 02/17/2005

Team Foundation article posted on .NET Developer's Journal

I haven’t seen this article blogged yet, so here’s a pointer. My illustrious colleague Brian White...

Author: johnlawr Date: 01/18/2005

SourceGear software announces Linux/Solaris/MacOS client for Team Foundation

Erik Sink blogs about some very interesting news from SourceGear I'm writing this blog entry to...

Author: johnlawr Date: 01/12/2005

Team Explorer folder names in Dec Team System CTP

Bill Mattox asked about the Team Explorer folder names in a recent newsgroup post. I did notice...

Author: johnlawr Date: 01/10/2005

Paul Murphy is already having fun with the December Team System CTP

Paul Murphy has already posted 3 posts on his experience so far with Team System: Team System...

Author: johnlawr Date: 12/27/2004

December Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio Team System is available for download

Rob Caron already announced this on his awesome Team System blog – but he’s posted a few very...

Author: johnlawr Date: 12/23/2004

Work Item Tracking Extensibility

Steve Mathieu asked in a newsgroup post what our extensibility mechanism is going to be for the Work...

Author: johnlawr Date: 12/20/2004

Halo 2 statistics support RSS feeds

After all the discussion on Work Item Tracking and RSS based notification, it’s interesting to see...

Author: johnlawr Date: 11/10/2004

RSS or email notifications for Work Item tracking?

There is already a lot of discussion on Scott’s recent blog entry on Tracking Bugs about whether...

Author: johnlawr Date: 11/03/2004

ScottGu talks about Tracking Bugs on the ASP.NET team

Scott Guthrie has a really detailed post about how his team uses our internal tools to manage the...

Author: johnlawr Date: 11/03/2004

Shipping Software & Broken Windows

Micky Gousset added these comments in his Team System blog One thing I have found though, is that...

Author: johnlawr Date: 10/14/2004

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is a Good Thing

I just send this out in email to some friends and family, and this isn't exactly something we're...

Author: johnlawr Date: 08/26/2004

Visual Studio Beta 1 Refresh with Team System announced

Rick has announced on his blog that we've signed off on a new CTP of Visual Studio 2005. The...

Author: johnlawr Date: 08/25/2004

Bill Zentmayer is blogging

I just spotted that Bill Zentmayer has a blog. Bill and I worked together with one of the...

Author: johnlawr Date: 08/18/2004

My first wiki edit

Someone on the recently created internal Burton bloggers mailing list pointed out this cool Burton...

Author: johnlawr Date: 08/04/2004

Another new Team System blogger joins the Burton Blogroll

Kevin Kelly has just started blogging about Visual Studio Team System. Kevin and Brian White are...

Author: johnlawr Date: 06/02/2004

Neno Loje has collected together a useful set of Team System links at:...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/28/2004

Team System "official" blog - AskBurton

I'm just discovering how rapidly the Visual Studio Team System blogging universe is expanding. Here...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/28/2004

Blog reactions to Visual Studio Team System

Fahrid Mheir writes about his first reactions to Visual Studio Team System. He writes a neat summary...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/27/2004

All things must pass - time for something new

If you check my blog regularly you'll have noticed I've been rather quiet since the launch of Speech...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/26/2004

Great whitepaper on the Speech Server Log Analysis tools.

Written by my esteemed colleague Stephen Potter: Log Analysis and Tuning with Microsoft Speech...

Author: johnlawr Date: 05/06/2004

Web sites are failing visually impaired users - can the Speech Application SDK help?

The BBC has news of an interesting report: Websites 'failing' disabled users The key finding was...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/14/2004

Eric Rudder mentions the Speech Server launch on his blog

From Eric's blog, The Developer Life I had a chance to spend much of this past week in San...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/13/2004

Upcoming webcast on using Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) with Microsoft Speech Server 2004

This should be a very interesting webcast. There isn't currently any detailed coverage of CTI...

Author: johnlawr Date: 04/08/2004

Early adopters report benefits with new Microsoft Speech Server

Story in Computerworld about Microsoft Speech Server's early adopters. My favorite quote: “By...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/31/2004

Clarification: Speech Server 2004 and Speech Application SDK do NOT require Whidbey/Visual Studio 2005

One of the most frequent questions I was asked at the booth at VSLive/SpeechTek was whether the...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/29/2004

More VSLive official coverage

Kai-Fu Lee's official keynote: https://www.ftponline.com/reports/vslivesf/2004/lee/ Picture gallery...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/27/2004

More pictures from the Speech Server launch

Bill announcing the launch of Microsoft Speech Server 2004 Richard demonstrating the Prompt Editor...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/25/2004

Transcription and slides from Bill Gates keynote at VSLive/SpeechTek

Complete transcription of Bill's speech - including a transcription of all the demos and the...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/25/2004

Bill Gates' Speech Server Keynote is online

Richard just sent me this link to the video of Bill Gates' keynote speech including the launch and...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/25/2004

Some photos from the Speech Server Launch

Richard Irving demonstrating the grammar editor Richard showing off the richer (and complex) power...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/24/2004

Microsoft Speech Server has Launched!

Speech Server 2004 has been launched! After 5 years of working towards this day I can say that it's...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/24/2004

New log analysis tools in Microsoft Speech Application SDK

As I mentioned in my last post, we've been working on some tools to analyze and report against the...

Author: johnlawr Date: 03/22/2004

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