First project about Team System is a book that I started with my friend Kader Yildirim. We had a first contact with one editor and were disapointed a bit because we were told that there is no ‘market’ for such a book. I really think that there is, because Team System is an awesome tool. Nevermind we will continue to search an editor. By the way if you are interested, please feel free to contact me. One side note, the book will be written in French.
The second project with my brother Mathieu is to update our website Tech Head Brothers to use ASP.NET 2. Currently Mathieu is located in Sydney, Australia and will soon move to Perth, Australia because he found a new job there. So to work on such condition we need really good tools to communicate, Groove Virtual Office, Skype and MSN Messenger. Ok with those tools we can have in real time discussions, share idea, even share documents in online/offline mode. But we missed a Software Development Lifecycle Tool (SDLC). At the time of the website version written in ASP.NET 1.0/1.1, we had tried several solutions from Visual SourceSafe over Internet, over VPN, then we moved to CVS because it was too slow. We also had Draco.NET…
Now our solution is the following one:
- One Windows 2003 Server with Virtual Server and Team System installed on it (Thanks to Fox). We used the Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 VPC provided during the Tech Ed 2005 in Amsterdam.
- A512/128 Kb ADSL internet connection access to the server with a dynamic ip, thanks to DynDNS
- Mathieu is using a custom installation of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 installion in a Virtual PC on his notebook
- I am also using a VPC with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 installed
After one week of usage I have to say that it is working not so bad. For sure we have issues because of the adsl connection that get disconnected and DynDNS taking a bit time to update to the new IP. But I am ashtonished about the way it works and I like the source repository and the work items.