November 2014 | Premier Developer

Why you are failing with Waterfall – Consider Agile and Scrum

Premier DeveloperNovember 24, 2014Nov 24, 201411/24/14

Rick McGuire, Senior Application Development Manager, shares what many development teams are discovering in their effort to build better software: Agile has many advantages over traditional waterfall methodologies. Surprisingly there are still a lot of development teams clinging to the old Waterfall methodology for software deve

The Value of an ADM

Premier DeveloperNovember 20, 2014Nov 20, 201411/20/14

Rich Maines, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses how a strategic ADM relationship translates into business value for customers. What if you could have your own trusted advisor within Microsoft, a resource whose primary responsibility is to maximize the business value of your investments in Microsoft technologies? The

ImmutableObjectGraph has some big updates now, and more coming soon

Andrew ArnottNovember 19, 2014Nov 19, 201411/19/14

I was able to work out a model for continued open source development of ImmutableObjectGraph -- at least in a limited way. This means that the 16 month silence on the public repo is over, and I was able to push a bunch of the commits I had been keeping internal to the public.For those of you not already familiar with the library/tool, you can

Development practices to minimize OS end of life risks

Premier DeveloperNovember 17, 2014Nov 17, 201411/17/14

Derrick Sharpe, Senior Application Development Manager, talks about application compatibility and how to minimize the risk associated with OS end of life transitions. In case you haven’t heard by now Windows Server 2003 support ends on July 14, 2015. Microsoft will no longer patch Windows Server 2003 for new security vulnera

When QA Testing isn’t enough to keep your application error-free

Premier DeveloperNovember 12, 2014Nov 12, 201411/12/14

Linkai Yu, Senior Application Development Manager, discusses his experience with enterprise applications that fail after being deployed in production and how Premier Developer works with customers to resolve and prevent these types of issues. Even though Applications Go Through Rigorous Tests It’s true that most applications

Connect(“November 12 & 13”); is almost here!

Premier DeveloperNovember 11, 2014Nov 11, 201411/11/14

Premier Developer wanted to give a shout out to our Visual Studio and Azure friends hosting an exciting event this week. The live Connect(); two-day virtual developer event starts this Wednesday, so save the date, connect with a community of dedicated developers, and get a jump start on the road ahead! Day 1, November 12th: Watch ke

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