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 …
Read MoreDue 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.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreI will be speaking at NxtGen usergroup Birmingham branch on the 17th December about, you guessed it TFS.
Look forward to seeing you there.
Read MoreAs 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read More- 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 …
Read More So we reach the end of the first day of Mix07 London, what are my thoughts? Well the conference, as conference go, is well organized and I can have no complaint over the quality of the sessions or presenters.
Has it changed how I think about Silverlight? Well I have realised that 1.0 is a very different product to 1.1. …
Read More- Today and tomorrow I am at the Mix07 conference in London which is being held at the Congress Centre, a building that I knew as the Trade Union Congress building. So given this location I expected a Harold Wilson 'beer and sandwiches' style lunch, but no it was small food (very nice tapas style dishes) and as we all …
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