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by Martin Hinshelwood
I will be working on some new features to the Sticky Buddy application. Improvements in the interface, along with a more modular structure and more diagram offering are in the mix. I have been working on some of the enhancements …
by Martin Hinshelwood
My favourite author, David Webber, has an interview on you tube. I have read every one of his books, and I just love the Military Sci-Fi genre… Technorati Tags: Personal
by Martin Hinshelwood
Until the 30th of November 2008 Mozy are increasing the amount of space you get for referring a friend from 256mb to 512mb! This is excellent and everyone should have some sort of backup 🙂 as long as you click …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I always like to see people for whom it is traditionally unlikely to blog to start contributing to that big knowledgebase in the either that is the blogosphere. I would like to call attention to Eric McCarthy who started blogging …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Gert Drapers has just announced the long awaited RC for the Data Dude GDR. This is the first version that you can seriously consider using as, unlike the previous CTP’s, there will be an upgrade path to the RTM. You …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am currently getting to grips with the Infragistics WPF controls that they call NetAdvantage for WPF. So far I have found them easy to use, but the documentation of examples is very lax. Do not mistake me, these …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am having a little bit of fun with this application and I though I would share. it logs all of the applications that you are using and gives you stats on it. How about joining the Microsoft MVP (MVP’s …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In my recent troubles with branching and merging I found (it was not lost, I just did not know about it) a fantastic tool, that has actually been part of the power tools for about two years, for comparing two …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been trying to get a handle on doing an automated build of our Business Intelligence solutions and I am always running into problems around the (IMO badly build) BI Packages that are installed via SQL. They do not …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I received a wee email from Kevin Doherty the CEO at Phase2. These guys host lots of useful things and the had obviously decided to host TFS as part of their offering. This is a really great site, I regularly …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I thought I should explain how to enable the “My Calendar” web part on you’re my Site (homepage). Here is my “MySite”, as you can see I have a horrible picture, but if you check out the red rectangle you …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you want to be able to use workflow on you’re my site that will allow you to assign tasks to your colleagues, then you need to take a couple of thing into consideration. The most important is to give …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I know that I have not been posting in a while, and I hope to remedy that. I have been working on getting our internal team up to speed on using TFS as a full ALM tool and not just …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Stats on out TFS Instance. Not much but growing. Users Recent users: 18 Users with assigned work items: 27 Version control users: 36 Work Items Work Items: 636 Areas & Iterations: 179 Work item versions: 5,642 Attached files: 46 Queries: …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I recently found the need to Sync two lists. I have one list that is used for display, and I want to dynamically sync that list with a new one by applying a delta. I thought that this would be …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I have just joined the auspicious ranks of Team System MVP’s, now numbering 73 worldwide. You can see my profile on the MVP site. My name will now appear along side Mitch Denny and Tiago Pascoal. Wow… I have …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Microsoft has just announced that the two products, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Developers and Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers as been combined. From today if you Own either version in 2005 or 2008 flavours you will also …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have a little custom control I need added to my Visual Studio Team System projects. This control will allow specific groups of users as representatives of Advocacy groups with in the life cycle model to sign off a Requirement …
by Martin Hinshelwood
With the new Windows Live Wave 3 betas now available I am looking forward to many of the features I have already previewed in the beta of Windows Live Messenger 9. These are the English installs, but other languages are …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It seams as if they went well! The plan of under preparing and over delivering worked a treat… Because I know the topics the lack of a prepared script allowed me to concentrate more on emparting knowlage and less on …