Update 2/4/2014 – Added notes about using service accounts as opposed to machine accounts for the AppPool running the web service

In the past I have posted on how to get Kerberos running for multi tier applications. Well as usual when I had to redeploy the application onto new hardware I found my notes were not as …

I am speaking at Gravitas’s Tech Talk #3 - "TFS & Visual Studio 2013 vs The Rest" on Tuesday march the 4th about

"Microsoft's Application Lifecycle product has had a lot of changes in the past couple of years. In this session will look at how it can be used provide a complete solution from project …

You will recall from my earlier post how much I like my Dell Venue 8 Pro and how disappointed I was that the stylus was on back-order until March.

Imagine my surprise, then, when a package arrived at the beginning of this week with a shiny new stylus in it!

The GDR3 update for my Nokia 820 has at last arrived. As my phone is a developer unit it is at the end of the automated update list. I suppose I could have pulled it down by hand, but I was not in a major rush as I am not doing WP8 development at present.

The update seems to have gone on OK. Only strange thing was I …

All has been going well since our upgrade from TFS 2012 to 2013, no nasty surprises.

As I had a bit of time I thought it a good idea to start the updates of our build and lab/test systems. We had only upgraded our TFS 2012.3 server to 2013. We had not touched our build system (one 2012 controller and 7 agents on …

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Some time ago I wrote about how disappointed I was with the Acer W3 tablet. I really wanted that small form factor …

Update 27 Jun 2013 See update version of post with more data

I seem to be involved with a number of TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrades at present. I suppose people are looking at TFS 2013 in the same way as they have historically looked at the first service pack for a product i.e: the time to upgrade when most of the main …