On the 30th of October last year Microsoft deployed an update for Visual Studio Team Services (still named Visual Studio Online at the time) which introduced a new start page that could be completely customized. The feature was named dashboards and when I first saw it I realized its potential for putting all kinds of information relevant to a development team right at their fingertips. For those who haven’t seen it yet, this is what the out of the box dashboard looks like:

Last week I attended Microsoft’s TechEd Europe conference in the RAI in Amsterdam. I had a great week. I’ve learned a lot of new stuff and I met with some interesting people. And since it has been a while since I’ve written anything on this blog I’d thought I’d do a little wrap-up of the conference and share with you some of my personal thoughts. I would like to stress that these are just my thoughts.