Let’s give it up for VSS! Whether or not I end up staying with it, I was just pleasently surprised by VSS 8. Amazingly, VSS 2005 binds to the 2003 IDE. What? Is this really a Microsoft product? Backward compatable? You guys rock! That is really cool. Now I wonder if I can make it […]
Read MoreWell, 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
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