Database corruption in TFS 2005 causes TF246017 during upgrade
Today I was on-site to do a test upgrade of TFS 2005 to TFS 2010 and we encountered an error that would have caused major delays while we investigated and perhaps requiring additional help from Microsoft.
Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers
There is a lot of references and blog posts on how to handle SOAP events raised by Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008 and 2010 but is there anything new in 2010 that supersedes this? Even though I knew it was there, n o amount of google-fu brought back any results relevant to anything new, so hopefully this will fill that gap.
Calculating the Rank of your blog posts or pages
I had an idea to have blog posts, or Rules listed not in date order, or an arbitrary order, but in some sort of calculated order. For this I would need to get data from somewhere and I fancied using; Number of Comments, Number of Trackbacks, Reddit, Digg, FriendFeed Twitter and Google Page rank. In this sample I use the term Rangler as a cross between Wrangler and Rank, but they are really Data Collectors.
How to deal with a stuck or infinitely queued build
Team Foundation Build can be a difficult beast, but not usually because of itself. Although people do experience problems when adding solutions that have been around for a while with no build run, it really does do a fantastic job.
A change for the better #3 - SSW to Northwest Cadence
Over the last 11 months, I have worked for a fantastic group of people at SSW and on a fantastic array of projects. However, the time has now come to specialise in one specific area. I have worked with Visual Studio ALM since its launch in 2005 and more recently with Scrum and the Professional Scrum Developer course that launched in April. Therefore, to this end I am leaving my job as a Solution Architect at SSW for an ALM Consultant role at Northwest Cadence . As you may or may not know, my last day at SSW is Friday 10th September and I want to express my thanks to Adam, Anastasia and the rest of the guys for making me welcome, even with the disability of being Scottish.
Running Android 2.2 (Frodo) on your HD2
While my HD2 was away getting fixed I had to slum it using an Android phone from Vodafone. It was a small cheap Vodafone 845 running Android 2.1 and you know what… I loved it.
Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 Database Guide
Have you ever struggled with the Database Developer (was DataDude) components of Visual Studio? Well I have…and now the ALM Rangers have released a new guide to help us all get the benefits. There is Guidance as well as Hands-On-Labs and even how to do WIX integration for deployment.
Commit to Visual Studio ALM on Area51
A few weeks ago I proposed a new community for StackExchange and it has been growing at an exponential rate. We are about half way there, but we need your help to make this community a success.
The search for a single point of truth
It may be a trivial matter to get your contacts on your phone, but if you do the social network thing, then you need to do a little jiggery pokery to get everything to sync so you have the same contacts everywhere. Over the last couple of weeks I have vowed to get them sorted.
TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010
I am looking at re-working the TFS Event Handler and I was hoping that you would help me decide what handlers to build! [ Request an event handler ]
