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This evening I started with work again and one of the emails I got during my vacation was the congratulations email from Microsoft that they awarded me MVP Visual Developer – team System again.I must say that is a great way to start the year after two weeks of vacation JThe following weeks are packed for me. I am now working on my three ...

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me. Not only was I working with some colleagues on a Robot challenge (where we finished third J, see here a movie with Woody in action  , and the post of my coleague Erik) , I also had to prepare for 3 sessions for the DevDays here in the Netherlands.At my session on "Practical Team ...

I was very happy to receive the email this morning with the following content: Dear Marcel de Vries,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2007 Microsoft® MVP Award! The Microsoft MVP Award is our way of saying thank you and to honor and support the significant contributions you make to communities worldwide. As a ...

A few months ago I got an Email from Jack Greenfield who asked me to work with him on writing a whitepaper on software factories and how to enable this using visual studio team system.It took a lot of time and many conference calls with Jack and Erik Gundvaldson, but I can now announce that the whitepaper got published on MSDN!I am very pleased ...

The last couple of weeks I have been bussy with a lot of code reviews at our Professional Development Center at info support. We are in the finalizing stage of our next release of our software factory Endeavour. During this release colleagues made several changes to an existing code base for bug fixes and additional features. As you might know by ...

You might be thinking, he what are those new logo’s on your blog J Well, yesterday I got great news from Microsoft. They officially gave me the Microsoft Most valuable Professional (MVP) Title. As you can imagine I am really thrilled to get rewarded this way. So this is an extra boost for me to provide you with as much information I have on ...

I write this blog entry from Copenhagen airport. I am on my way to Seattle where we are going to attend a so called devlab at the Microsoft campus in Redmond (Take a look here with the new cool virtual earth stuff where we will be :-)). This is a special event for TAP customers that have early engagement with the product. We will have discussions ...