Dave Zimmerman

Just taking time to be grateful… (This started out as a spontaneous private email of gratitude to my family and closest friends, but occurred to me as I was about to hit send that really it deserves a more public forum at least as public as Tom’s recent blog article – if not the Star Tribune.)   Tom Salonek, my 10-years (not tenure) boss at Intertech, frequently gets pithy business insights published in our Twin Cities’ papers from his experience in… Read More

I have been working with database projects since the 2006 CTP “Data Dude” days through its 1.0 release as Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals; Its realized vision — of organizing our database artifacts/schema into a solution; checking changes into source control (TFS) surrounded with descriptive meta data (work items) documenting the motivations for those changes; and empowering us to automate the build, deployment, and test of those changes through our staged environments – has truly been revolutionary for… Read More

The Good More and more, Microsoft is releasing fully configured Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) for us to test drive products from Community Technology Previews (CTPs) and Betas to fully integrated server environments such as Team Foundation Server (TFS) with all its components configured (SharePoint, Reporting Services, SQL Server Analysis Server, TFS app, build, and more.) See the Microsoft program:  These VHDs are extremely handy for all sorts of reasons, but let me name just a few things they have saved… Read More