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We have just had another addition to the family… Kaiden Ryan William Hinshelwood was born at 12:01 on 5th February 2009. If you remember 19 months ago when my daughter was born my wife has a very quick delivery, 45 …
We are getting a new carpet tomorrow… my wife is 8 and a half months pregnant and she’s nesting… So we cleared the living room and cut up the carpet to dispose of (the carpet fitters charge £25 to get …
Have you ever, when developing a website, been frustrated when you get a different result when you deploy your application to http://site/ and http://site/app/. I don’t know about you, but it annoys the hell out of me. All that work …
Yesterday Microsoft released the latest version of it new IE8 browser. As an avid user of both Beta 1 and Beta 2 I am looking forward to seeing the result. A CR should have most if not all of the …
As some of you may know, Feedburner (http://feedburner.com) was acquired some time ago by Google… But they are now actively migrating their content to Google servers (http://feedburner.google.com) and I have taken the plunge… if you are having any problems with …
I was a little lazy last time and did not install either Team Explorer, or SP1 on my visual studio instance. So, lets get to it… Everything fine with the Team Explorer install so far, but I have seen other …
In my email signature, and in the title of my blog, I have the phrase “multi-dimensional free thinker”, and I was recently pulled up for it… How do you “know” you are a “free thinker”? You can’t prove that maaaan …
I am installing VS2008 in a virtual environment, so this may not be exactly what you would get, but the purpose is to identify if VS2008 does indeed work on Windows 7 and what the experience is like. The first …
Installing Windows 7 is so similar to the Vista install it almost does not deserve a post on it, but as I did not do a Vista install post, and I am waiting for the install to complete, I though …
If you have an MSDN account you will be able to download Windows 7 Beta today, but it should be available for anyone by the end of next week. If you have not seen anything about Windows 7 then you …
Well, that’s me well and truly back from my holidays, a nice relaxing couple of weeks spent at home with my family. As a kind of New Years present, Microsoft has released a free learning initiative for those of you …
Up until now the only avenue for your average Vista user for support was to trawl the MSDN Forums, Technet Forums and the Support site for some elusive piece of information that is buried among all that technical BS that …
If only I could be as eloquent as Scott. His recent post on “Does test-driven development speed up development?” really gets to the crux of an endemic problem in the Software Development industry, especially in companies for whom Software Development …
After making sending a “Call to Action” to my fellow Team System MVP’s I have added two managers to the VSTS Developers group I started on LinkedIn. Ed Blankenship – [LinkedIn] [Blog] [Company blog] Michael Ruminer – [LinkedIn] [Blog] Thanks …
With many people skipping off early for their holly bags, me included.. I thought I should send this out now… Send your own ElfYourself eCards Merry Christmas from the Hinshelwood family. If you are having problems accessing or see a …
If, like me, you tried to deploy a solution to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and it ether failed or hung you will need to remove it somehow. But once the status has moved to “deploying”, if you receive an …
I have been getting very interested in the new Azure Services Platform and how I can use it to facilitate WPF development. Imagine being able to launch a ClickOnce application from anywhere and for it to have exactly the same …
Some of the new Windows Live Wave 3 services have gone live over the last couple of days. One of the best IMO is the SkyDrive services, updated to 25GB and with complete integration with other services like Photo Share, …
Updated and improved for Team System 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/TFSEventHandler The TFS Event Handler makes it easier to notify users of changes to Work Items in Team Foundation Server. You will no longer need to add individual alerts to users. It is …
This is a lot harder than it sounds. At first you think there will be a built in option with the Read Identities method on the IGroupSecurityService Interface, but you would be wrong! When capturing an event from Team Foundation …