Well, it doesn’t exactly suck, but it isn’t the killer app I was wanting it to be. One of the biggest promises of VSS 2005 was the ability to function over HTTP. I understand that this will work, but only if you are running the client embedded within Visual Studio. In other words, you must be integrated […]
Read MoreI have discovered recently that Media Player can do a lot more than I have ever asked of it. I am really getting to like using it. That said, why can’t I “pin” it like I can pin dockable windows in Visual Studio? I don’t want to have to go to the Options dialog to […]
Read MoreI find myself in need of a source control system for a side project that I am working on. I am surprised to find that even with only 2 developers and seperated application layers, the potential for stepping on each other is high. This doesn’t even address the fact that I have no backups for […]
Read MoreI have felt it. The disturbance in the force that I am talking about is Podscope. It seems simple enough, a search engine for RSS 2.0 feeds with encapsulations. What is this really? It is a search engine for audio and video that can be delivered via HTTP. Not streamed, but downloadable MPEGS or MP3s. […]
Read MoreEveryone agrees with the idea of Scrum. “It sounds like a great idea!” they say. Then comes the bomb, “You mean I can’t schedule a meeting with someone who is working on a Sprint?” Another one of my favorites, “I can’t dedicate 4 hours to a Project Design Session.” Meetings are a hard habit to […]
Read MoreCheck out a very well done presentation on Microsoft‘s Enterprise Library Application Block over at the .Net Buffet. http://weblogs.asp.net/drohrer/archive/2005/02/20/376998.aspx
Read MoreI am in the process of trying to sell the Scrum process to people outside of our Engineering team. This is an interesting process, because it truly makes me test my own assumptions about the idea. I must be able to convincingly make a case for Scrum and get other teams to buy off into it. […]
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