An interesting [to me anyway] observation - When asking someone to take a picture of me with my camera:
4 years ago - With a point & shoot - Now, it’s digital so just look at the screen.
Today - With an SLR - No, you have to look through the viewfinder. No really, that screen is [...] Read more »
One of my favorite tech/programming blogs has been Joel Spolsky’s Joel On Software. I’ve also been interested in his company’s premier product, FogBugz, but the $129+ license fee turned away small time developers like myself.
Recently, they put together a version of FogBugz that is 100% hosted by Fog Creek’s servers, and included a “startup and [...] Read more »
Msbuild is not necessarily a “real” component of TFS, but it is heavily integrated throughout its build system (as well as Visual Studio 2005), so I’ll be recording my thoughts on it as well. It seems to be better than NAnt, a similar open source product, in most regards, but I have spent the better part [...] Read more »
Back when I was a teenager, a CD was a sort of precious commodity. As with most of my peers, I didn’t have a ton of money, so shelling out $12-$15 per album was considered an investment; if you ended up with a CD that was barely worth a single listen, you couldn’t help but feel like you [...] Read more »
Why you shouldn’t be too outlandish in the garbage text you create when debugging an email script: there may be someone else in the company that has the same name as you, and only a ‘.’ differentiates the address. The “other” Scott Williams was cool about it though. Fortunately I didn’t fill the body of [...] Read more »
He has a similar background as I do (coming from more of a SubVersion environment) and has similar gripes. I’m planning on writing an entire post on TFS’s Source Control, but he covers most of my point.
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As I’ve stated before, I haven’t had the opportunity to use TFS in my programming lifetime yet. One of the things that has struck me about it is shear cost of all the stuff that is needed. TFS requires a server OS, a SQL Server database, and “prefers” to run on an Active Directory domain. Even [...] Read more »
Before I could actually use the fancier parts of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, I had to first install it. I began by following this Cliffs’ Notes version of the process, but changed up halfway through for reasons I’ll describe below.
I didn’t have a spare machine around that was beefy enough to run TFS, but [...] Read more »
I think I have something to write about semi-regularly here. One of the major tasks for my job will be to streamline the build process for a couple of applications that are starting to wrap up their development. I have some experience using open source technology like NAnt and CruiseControl.net, however this project uses Microsoft’s [...] Read more »
Apparently, the cat is out of the bag. Certain Wikipedia articles may be edited by people to include their own bias! Amazing, I know. However, this news does not really change my opinion of wikipedia. I still think it is a fantastic resource and incredibly useful when I need to get the basic gist of [...] Read more »