You can impart knowledge, but not experience; all experts are self-taught.

By building a model and following these best practices for your remote consulting business, you can avoid problems and reduce costs.

Managing global-scale technology demands practices and skills beyond traditional local project management.

Discover the factors that can cause an agile project to succeed--or fail.

Find out how to write plugins for Windows Live Writer, including how to get started, how to debug, and how to package the final plugin.

As a developer, is it better to be a specialist in one technology or a generalist?

Learn how to add robust security features to a simple wiki system built on the Rails platform.

Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell interview Arfa Karim, the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional.

Learn how to build a simple, file-based Wiki system using the Ruby on Rails web application framework. You won't believe how easy it is.

Although intended primarily for large teams, sometimes VSTS can simplify life on smaller teams as well. Find out whether your smaller teams might benefit.

Continuous Integration is an agile process that rebuilds a project whenever the underlying code changes. Find out how to modify your Team Foundation Server projects' "build types" to implement continuous integration features such as automatic builds, testing, and problem notification.

A Microsoft MVP offer his 10 tips for helping you dispatch the time goblins and get more done in less time.

The conflict between Planners and Workers in the film Metropolis can serve as a metaphor for the divide between architects and developers in the software industry. A veteran who's been on both sides has some suggestions for bridging the gap.

Microsoft has been busy baking new tools, offering tasty but not-quite-fully-cooked technology at Tech·Ed 2006. While there's plenty of new information about existing products, developers will particularly welcome upcoming capabilities in ADO.NET vNext, .NET Framework 3.0, Windows PowerShell, and Office 2007.

Your value as a developer goes beyond your technical acumen. Make yourself indispensable by learning your industry and your product.

Enrich your Java and J2EE knowledge with a new series of free training modules that IBM provides to help you pass IBM's Certification Test 255.

Coding standards are a time-honored and widely respected programming best practice. However, they are not always easy to put into action. Find out how Checkstyle can help you define and enforce a set of coding standards and promote good and consistent programming habits across your team.

Conferences and user group meetings are tiring, but reenergizing at the same time.

As .NET enters a new stage of maturity, Microsoft asks developers to turn their attention to new productivity features of Team System, announces an imminent release candidate for the Foundation Server, and rolls out some big changes to the professional certification program.

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) provides centralized storage of work item tracking features while MS Project provides rich planning and tracking features. By using them together, you can improve team productivity, minimize data conflicts, and reduce administrative overhead.