Teamprise

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend and fellow MVP Ed Blankenship to learn about the Team Foundation Server deployment in Infragistics. They have a global development team working 24x7 and their Team Foundation Server is now critical to the daily operation of the business.  Ed has plenty of tips and tricks in keeping TFS running with high availability but also in the organizational challenges when deploying the tools across a diverse, global software development organization.

In case you weren't able to make it to Microsoft TechEd 2009 North America, you may have missed Teamprise's exciting announcement: we've launched labs.teamprise.com, an exciting new site for Team Foundation Server tools. Our labs site will contain a variety of Teamprise projects from free and open source tools for Team Foundation Server all the way to incubation projects that haven't quite found their way into the next release of our product lineup.

Last week at TechEd 2009 North America, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Brian Keller to discuss Teamprise past, present and future. If you have Silverlight installed you can watch the interview or you can download the video from the TechEd site.

If bunnies are just a little bit too cute and fluffy for you, then you might be interested in a little side project that reader Terry Humphries just got in touch with me about.  You see Terry had no love for robotic rabbits in the build process – but an electric guitar was something that he and the other developers in his team would pay attention to. So he hooked up a vintage 1990’s Warlock Electric guitar made by B.C.Rich to TFS and let that rock their world.  I thought this was a cool project so asked permission to share his email with you all. If you want to get in touch with Terry, drop me a line and I’ll send your details on to him.

For a while now, we’ve been helping our Java customers by providing the Teamprise Build Extensions to allow people to easily build Ant based projects using Team Foundation Build and publish JUnit test results into TFS for inclusion in the reports etc.  With the release of Teamprise 3.2 we also released a new version of the Teamprise Build Extensions which enables Maven based builds to be performed under Team Foundation Build with the same ease.  We’ve been using this with a few different customers this year and it has proven to be very successful so I wanted to spread the word a little.

We at Teamprise are very excited about the newest release of our flagship
product, Teamprise Client Suite 3.2. This new release adds a bunch of new customer-driven features.

I had the honor of being interviewed for The Thirsty Developer, a great little podcast by Larry Clarkin and Dave Bost. I talk about what it's like to develop the Teamprise Client Suite and how we work with cross-platform development in Java.

"So, Ed, do you have a blog?"

Earlier today we announced the release of Teamprise 3.1, and you might be wondering why you should upgrade. Maybe you haven't run into any big bugs in Teamprise clients (and we hope you haven't.) Or maybe you just don't feel like upgrading for "just a point release". It's true that we only revved the minor version to 3.1, but it's more than just bugfixes: we've also added a lot of good new features.