Flash May 2015 – Wave of innovation and happy anniversary!

You can find the latest flight plan snapshot at aka.ms/vsarFlightPlan

news

• SonarQube Installation Guide, which explains how to set up a production ready SonarQube installation to be used in conjunction with Team Foundation Server 2013 to analyse .Net apps was updated a few times, with more revisions and more guides to come. Version 1.0.5 was published on June 1st.
• Extracting effective permissions from TFS - sample update v1.2 moved to GitHub to dogfood the markdown based documentation channel and ability to accept contributions via Pull Requests. Please visit the repo and tell us what you think.
• Git for TFVC User guide mentioned in the end of Version Control Guidance? A pinch of nostalgia and future plans completes the silent release phase and opens the ask for feedback on the future of the guidance. Please share our candid feedback!
• Monthly Catch-up: S83 is our latest Channel9 news video, which introduces our “Frankenbuild” Ranger and his Building Cross-Platform Apps with Apache Cordova and Microsoft Build.vNext demo.

happy anniversary

On June 16th our ALM Rangers community will be 9 years old. The following email from Bijan was uncovered as archaeological evidence:   HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

welcome our new associate rangers

The following Associate ALM Ranger who has joined us : Mikael Krief. Welcome and enjoy the adventure!

more community activity gems worth noticing

The ALM Rangers often engage and deliver value to the ALM community behind the scenes. Here are some of the many nuggets:

• ALM Forum … Danny Crone, Jim Szubryt, and Martin Hinshelwood meet at Chuck’s for another great evening and dinner
•  DevOps session delivered by a very smart Casey O'Mara.
• First evidence from Hassan Fadili at //BUILD/tour. Cool t-shirt!
• Cross-platform and robotics technology emerging at Josh Garverick’s home, also known as the Frankenbuild lab.  

interesting reads

• How to delete an Action Recording
• Seven major checkpoints involved in starting an ALM Rangers project – Checklist
• Launch default browser from Visual Studio Code
• Seven COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Online today
• Back from Build 2015
• Rolling triages & fire-and-forget projects enable us to increase responsiveness and diversity
• Visual Studio Online Update – May 15th
• A fun project for customer connection
• Stripping background images from PDFs

• What does a developer user group attendee look like?

   

   

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• Multi-ecosystem ALM using TFS
• Version for Chromebook or ARM
• Provide guidance for complete process template customization

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