While I have been blogging for a few years, I feel that I wanted to get more frequent with this.  Most developers out there, including myself, run into things all the time, that isn’t solved quickly and must take some thought and problem solving.  Since I know we’ve all been there, I intend to post here on new things that interest me, problems I figured out – in case that helps someone else.

A little bit about myself… Yes, I do focus mainly on Microsoft technologies.  I have been a fan since I was in college and in that environment Microsoft was clearly the underdog – most people there were doing their development in Sun or some other Unix variant.  Microsoft helped sponsor the “Microsoft Programmers Club” there and gave us a bunch of free software – including Visual Studio.  I fell in love with that IDE and have been using it every since.

Today, I’m primarily working as a consultant and partner in Polaris Solutions (http://www.polarissolutions.com).  Usually, I am on projects implementing Team Foundation Server and helping organizations adopt Team System, though that name is significantly downplayed in the 2010 release.  While focusing on TFS and process methodology, I have been focusing primarily on Agile methodologies because of their emergent predictability.  I do believe that predictability within IT organizations is a very valuable aspect.  Some times it can be achieved by fiat, but organizations will fall into habits/ways of doing things that may be contradictory to that goal.  I mostly feel that with the adoption of Agile, it becomes easier for a group to become predictable because Agile embraces change – and in many ways where adopted – embraces simplicity.  Those things, they are constant, and I believe, essential for a successful IT organization.