OK, we all know we need to back up our data. And we have all been told to have an off-line location for all of our data as well. More than likely, the business we work at does just that. But at home? Not a chance. Heck, we are lucky to have a backup anywhere. […]
Read MoreApparently, several. I am the 2008 director for Boise Code Camp and I found myself needing to send email to 400 people from our mailing list to tell them about the upcoming Code Camp. I sent an inquiry to our Code camp online group asking the simple question, “How would you send 400 emails?” The […]
Read MoreTFS is not all about process, although it does provide work item capability in the form of Process Templates. This article discusses on the Conchango v2 Beta 1 Process Template for Team System 2008. I have personally been using v1 of Conchango’s template for over a year and am anxious to see some improvements. They […]
Read MoreIn addition to overall architecture (let’s not argue about what that means) my role with my current employer involves a lot of higher level operations responsibilities. So I am a stereotypical non-coding architect…who doesn’t even to get to do much architecting! However recently I’ve wormed (forced!) my way onto a couple of projects where I […]
Read MoreI am a ReSharper addict. I admit it. I have this habit of upgrading my ReSharper every time JetBrains releases a new version. Speaking of which: ReSharper 3.1 is out and ready for download. Or you can read the release notes. But, if you are hoping this will add C# 3.0 support…it doesn’t. That is […]
Read MoreI checked in some code earlier today. Naturally I had successfully run all of the unit tests locally first. Nevertheless the CI build still failed. Luckily I had faced this problem before and after some initial frustration I quickly figured out the cause. Here are a couple of tips to help you if you face […]
Read MoreRosario is Microsoft’s next TFS and TFS client tools that will eventually plug in to VS2008. There are some fantabulous features on the table for this release, and some still on the backlog that I just hope make it. One thing that is absolutely key to easier use of the work item model is hierarchical […]
Read MoreMicrosoft s working on a new test tool. This one if for the people who you think of as testers, not the people MS calls “Software Engineers in Test.” The plain fact is that most testers I have known are technical power users with a nose for technology, but little in the way of programming […]
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