07 Jul 2014

Enterprise Architects User Group–Omaha

User Group
The next (2nd) meeting will be held Tuesday, July 8th at BCBSNE offices (1919 Aksarben Drive) from 6:30-8:00pm. This meeting will focus on how different organizations are executing Enterprise Architecture. Aside from general information sharing the goal of this meeting is to use this information to gauge interest in deeper dives for future meetings. We will have two presenters to share their organization’s EA practice: Aaron Long - Blue Cross Blue Shield of NebraskaJeff Bramwell - Farm Credit Services of America Dinner will be provided at 6:30pm along with a networking time and the presentations will start at 7:00pm. The…
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16 Jun 2014

Application Security Chalk Talk

Security, User Group
At Farm Credit Services of America, where I am employed, we go through great lengths to ensure our development teams have plenty of training opportunities to help ensure we can develop the best possible user experience for our customers. These opportunities might come in the form of local or national conferences, self-paced learning – such as with Pluralsight – or in-house training – some of which is taught by employees and others taught by outside experts. Starting this week, we have the pleasure of bringing in two top-notch security experts from TrueSec to provide application security training to all of…
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18 Mar 2014

Omaha ALM User Group Meeting, 3/18/2014

User Group
[Update: The slides for this meeting are now available here] It’s a bit short notice but the next ALM User Group meeting is tonight at 6:00 PM. Here are the details: Topic Life Outside of TFS - Ever wondered what ALM tools are out there besides TFS?  Is it better to go best-of-suite or best-of-breed?  This talk will be your chance to learn! CSGi writes, builds, deploys, and maintains millions of lines of code across multiple languages and platforms.  It has been undergoing an agile transformation for a number of years now.  Early on in that process, they adopted the…
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23 Jan 2014

Using Git and Visual Studio Online (Part 1 of 4)

User Group, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio Online
At our latest Omaha ALM User Group meeting, a couple of nights ago, Paul Oliver gave a talk on using Git with Visual Studio Online (formerly known as Team Foundation Service). Even though we didn’t record his session Paul has decided to do a set of screencasts of his talk. The first of four parts is now available on YouTube which you can watch below. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgR9cwXhc8#t=23] We will post the links to the remaining videos as Paul gets them produced.
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17 Jan 2014

Omaha ALM User Group Meeting, 1/21/2014

User Group
The Omaha ALM User Group will be hosting its next meeting on Tuesday, January 21st at Farm Credit Services of America. Here are the details... Topic Git Workflow with Visual Studio Online - If your team currently uses Team Foundation Server and TFS Source Control and you’re wondering about what it will look like to move to Team Foundation Service (and Git) in the cloud, this talk is for you. Our team has now moved two projects and we haven’t looked back. I’ll talk about some of the hiccups and difficulties and how we overcame them. I’ll also share some…
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04 Dec 2013

Omaha Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event

User Group, Visual Studio 2013
The Omaha ALM User Group with Blue Cross Blue Shield Nebraska and Deliveron Consulting Services proudly invite you to the Omaha Visual Studio 2013 Launch Event. Join us for this special event where we will have: Latest Announcements and Highlights from the Microsoft Launch Free food and soda What’s new for developers in Visual Studio 2013 by Jeff Bramwell What’s new in ALM using Visual Studio 2013 by Mike Douglas RSVP now so we know to have enough food and available seating. Sponsors Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska (http://www.nebraskablue.com)Deliveron (http://www.deliveron.com/) Deliveron Consulting Services is a technology consulting company focused…
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15 Jan 2013

Omaha ALM User Group–Inaugural Meeting

User Group
The Omaha ALM User Group, formerly known as the Omaha Team System User Group, is having its inaugural meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 15th, 2013.  The Omaha ALM User Group is a technology agnostic group focused on utilizing tools and automation to support the people and processes across the complete application lifecycle.  The group is co-lead by Jeff Bramwell and Mike Douglas. Our first talk is Creating a deployment framework with TFS and custom PowerShell Cmdlets by Andy Bayer: As testing and release cycles continue to shorten for developers, automating application deployments becomes almost a necessity.  TFS and WebDeploy provide…
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16 Nov 2011

OTSUG Meeting: Kinect + TFS = Kinban

TFS API, User Group
Although the Omaha Team System User Group has not met in several months we had a great meeting tonight.  As always, our meeting was hosted by Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica).  This time, however, we had the privilege of meeting in the brand new building that just opened last month.  The new building is outstanding and the meeting space for after-hours events just can’t be topped!  Thanks again to FCSAmerica for sponsoring our user group! Tonight’s topic, Kinban, was presented by Jeremy Novak (side note: Jeremy presented once before for the OTSUG about two and a half years ago). …
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07 Jun 2011

Call for User Group Speaker/Topics

User Group
For those of you that regularly attend the Omaha Team System User Group meeting (in Omaha), you’ve no doubt noticed that we missed the last couple of meetings.  It turns out we had scheduling conflicts that prevented us from having the March meeting and the arrival of my latest son (see: Getting Back On-line) prevented us from having the meeting last month. Looking forward to the next meeting on July 26th, we are in need of a speaker.  If you have a topic that you would like to discuss and are willing to present on, please let me know.  If…
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19 Mar 2011

OTSUG – What is Visual Studio ALM?

ALM, TFS, User Group, Visual Studio
Please join us on Tuesday, March 22nd as Mike Douglas presents on “What is Visual Studio ALM?”  If you are not familiar with the various ALM features in Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010, this will be a great opportunity to see these features demonstrated.  You will also have the chance to ask any questions that you may have regarding the Visual Studio ALM tools. Visit the Omaha Team System User Group web site for complete meeting details. We hope to see you there!
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