Ayende Rahien and Roy Osherove have been having an interesting ping-pong about the merits and problems of TFS. Well worth a read....

Maybe it is just my background in network analysis, but I do feel any developer working with remote servers needs a protocol analyzer; in just the same way as you need the SQL profiler when working with a Microsoft SQL server, especially with auto generated code. Without tools like these how can you work out what is …

I posted in the past about all the problems I had with my overheating Dell 5150, and with the problems trying to Vista Betas working on it. Well an update on both.... After putting new thermal grease on the CPU heatskin it never overheated again With the release version of Vista every bit of hardware (bar the modem …

I had posted on problems with the nVidia Raid on our SunFire servers. Well I think I now have the root cause of the problems: not the Sun hardware, the nVidia RAID, or Windows 64 bit drivers. All the problems we had were when we used mirrored pairs of Western Digital 500Gb SATA drives that we had bought in a single …

I went to the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club last night, the meeting included an Extreme Hour. An interesting experience; the idea is that in an hour you go through a number of 10 minute XP iterations, doing 'development' by drawing the solution on a white board. Yesterday we had three separate groups of six; each …

Today I rebuilt a PC with new drives and all seemed OK, but after 15 minutes or so it kept stopping (no nice shutdown), irrespective of what the PC was doing. I even swapped back the old disks all to no avail, hence I was stumped for a while. The problem turned out to be it was a somewhat full case and a wire was …

The photo I have added to my blog's header is me at the Ripon Triathlon

When your try to remove the McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.5.0 agent using the command frminst /remove=agent you get an error "can't stop service mcafeeframework" if you are using VirusScan 8.5. This is because VirusScan 8.5 has a new option under Access Protection that stops the McAfee services being stopped. So …

There seems to be a good deal of Microsoft stuff over the past few editions of Scientific American (SCIAM), and before you ask yes I do live in the UK, but I find Nature a bit too academic for me and New Scientist has too many job adverts. SCIAM is just 'popular' science enough to read over breakfast. The March edition …

In case you missed it, you can now make submissions for presentation slots at DDD5. Even if you don't want to present, keep an eye on the site for a chance to vote on what you would like to see and to register as an attendee.