As I posted before I have been updating our TFS server to 2008 Beta2, today it was the WSS from 2.0 to 3.0. Well I followed the process on Sudhir Hasbe's blog and it just worked, so now we have WSS3.0 running the the TFS application tier. The final step will be to move the SharePoint sites to our main MOSS 2007 farm, …

Today I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade our 'live' TFS installation to 2008 Beta2, now there is support from Microsoft. The only reason I have delayed this long has been we have been involved in the delivery of a big project and I did not want to take the TFS server down for any reason. Our TFS installation is …

Due to popular demand, well one person, I have uploaded my GUITester system I presented about at DDD3 to CodePlex. It can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/guitester. If you are interested in moving the project forward let me know.

If you are having to support a TFS install there have been some excellent posts on disaster recovery on Sudhir Hasbe's blog, he is a PM on the TFS team. Well worth a read.

I will be speaking at NxtGen usergroup Birmingham branch on the 17th December about, you guessed it TFS. Look forward to seeing you there.

As I sit on the train traveling north to our Black Marble hosted MSDN event I must write to say how much I enjoyed presenting at last night's .NET Developers Network usergroup meeting; thanks to Guy Smith Ferrier and the whole group for getting it organized. I think I managed to cover all the questions raised about TFS …

I have had a week of Web 2.0 mashup sites at the MIx07 London event so was interested in a thing on the TV last night whilst watching England's appalling performance against South Africa in the rugby. eBay ran adverts with a virtually real time feed (20 second delay they claimed) from a live auction. Now I have never …

I have just heard my proposed session for the SQLBits conference has been accepted. I will be talking on Unit Testing in SQL Server my proposal was: Test driven development is one of the current hot topics in software development, but how far can these principles be applied in the world of SQL? In this session I will …

We're back up north after Mix:UK 07 and I thought I'd follow up my earlier post with a few thoughts on the event and it's content. Before I do that, however, I need to give a cheer for our guys: Jonny performed incredibly in the Guiter Hero competition to be triumphant in front of his screaming supporters, and Sam, …

See I was right, in my post yesterday I said the key role missing in most WPF projects was the 'designer who can cut code' or 'coder with a design eye', the session Silverlight, WPF, Expression design projects - where do we get started today was on just this subject Paul Dawson and Robby Ingebretsen discussed the need …