Team System Labs

I just came back from Redmond from some amazing training sessions on Team System. I can't really blog too much about it because some of the sessions were NDA, but I took some interesting photos I can share with you:

Here is a photo of Jon Box and I chatting about Team System and book authoring. He has a wicked self-deprecating sense of humor and he's a great guy all around. Be sure to check out his blog: http://radio.weblogs.com/0126569/

I also met quite a few Microsoft "celebrities", including a brief encounter with Robert Scoble, sporting a camera and ready to film another report for Channel 9!

The main Microsoft Campus is really a beautiful place, with well manicured lawns, trees and flower gardens. Here is a photo of the path leading up to the Microsoft Platform Lab building.

Throughout the building, there are all kind of plaques explaining the origins of various product codenames. Here is a transcript of the origins of the CLR: "Lightning was one of several code names for a high performance, managed execution system for COM+. It eventually became the .NET Common Language Runtime which is an integral part of the .NET Framework"

No explanation needed here. This was a sign hanging in our main session room.

The birthplace of Team System - Building 41