Interview with my favourite author
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
Mozy Backup providing extra space this month
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 my referral link and use Mozy …
Unlikely bloggers…
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 today and call out to all other helpdesk Hero’s to join the fray…
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR RC (release candidate)
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.
Infragistics WPF
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 components are fantastic and do way more work for me than I would care to do myself, but if you Google a particular piece of their API invariable you will get pure documentation and no samples. If you are lucky someone has asked a specific question about it and you can skim their answers, but the likely hood of finding an answer to your question is negligible in my experience.
Wakoopa
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 only please) team, or creating your own…
MSBuild and Business Intelligence Packages, Ahhhhhh!
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 support Test, they do not support build. There has been no thought given to how people working on them are going to build test and support them and even the project files are not written in the same schema as the rest of the Visual Studio bits. I would have thought, with Team Foundation Server in its third year and second version that this would have been rectified in SQL 2008, but no such luck.
Branch Compare…A Life saver
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 branches. Cool…
Hosted TFS, and cheap….from Phase2
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.
TFS Usage Statistics
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: 150
