It’s been a few days since returning from my ALM Rangers sabbatical in Seattle and the nausea of jetlag has finally waned. All in all it was a successful and healthy week. The trip over the Atlantic, Canada and into…
Mike Fourie
Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2012, 13. Distinguished ALM Ranger (Champion of Champions 2011, 12, 13)
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ALM Rangers Sabbatical — mid flight in 48 hours
In January I had the honour of being awarded an ALM Rangers sabbatical based in Seattle, mostly Microsoft Building 41 in Redmond, but for those who live outside a 200mile radius of Seattle, let’s just call it Seattle for simplicity.…
2012 Microsoft MVP!
I received great news from Microsoft last week saying that I have been awarded a MVP 2012 Award! I’d like to thank all those involved in my nomination and look forward to another successful year working with the MVP family.…
2012 MVP Global Summit
I was fortunate to attend the 2012 MVP Global Summit in Seattle this past week. It started with a great day of MVP to MVP sessions where 3 ALM Rangers projects were presented, followed by 4 intense days with the…
Merry Xmas Dogs
I recently received a payment from advertising revenue on two open-source projects I run (MSBuild Extension Pack and Controlled Vocabulary). I’ve matched that payment and donated all proceeds to DogsTrust. Thanks for the support… “Thank you so much for your…
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Thank you for all your support Rangers…
In April I was honoured to be nominated as the ALM Rangers Champion of Champions. Yesterday I heard that my peers had once again voted for me and I’ve once more been named Champion of Champions. I get to keep…
Reflecting on April 2011
April goes down as a great month in my books. It started on the 1st (no joke) with the news that I’d been awarded a 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award for Visual Studio ALM. This is my third award and comes…
Line Counter Update
I’m working on v4.0 of this little utility, however in doing so I found a nasty dependency bug in the current v3.0. You can grab an updated v3.2 release on the Stuff I Write page. Mike
FreeToDev Line Counter
On the Stuff I Write page you will find my FreeToDev Line Counter application which I’ve just updated to 3.0. This is a very simple line counter (also counts files) application which is useful if you need to get some…
Windows Live Mesh 2011 Review
UPDATE: 23 Nov 2010 – SugarSync are now providing a free 5Gb account and no longer require credit card details for the free service. I’m currently evaluating it and indications are that it will replace Dropbox as my recommended and…
