November 2014 | Developer Support

Why you are failing with Waterfall – Consider Agile and Scrum

Developer Support November 24, 2014 Nov 24, 2014 11/24/14

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 ...

The Value of an ADM

Developer Support November 20, 2014 Nov 20, 2014 11/20/14

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 Arnott November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14

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 ...

Development practices to minimize OS end of life risks

Developer Support November 17, 2014 Nov 17, 2014 11/17/14

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 ...

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

Developer Support November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

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!

Developer Support November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14

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 ...

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