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Maybe I should have got the Nokia 925
Richard Fennell Sep 1, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I was at Jodrell Bank to see Sigur Ros last Friday. I could have really done with the low light features of Nokia 925 as opposed to my 820. The shots I took of the projected light show onto the radio telescope disk were not as good as I hoped.

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DDDNorth registration is now open
Richard Fennell Aug 29, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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DDDNorth registration is now open, and I am sure will soon close and move to a wait list. So if you want to attend I would get in early
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Review of ‘Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012’ from Packt Publishing
Richard Fennell Aug 28, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have just been reading Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012 by Subashni. S and Satheesh Kumar. N from Packt Publishing
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A week with a Nokia 820
Richard Fennell Aug 21, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have been using a Nokia 800 (Windows Phone 7.8) for a year or so and been happy with it. It does what I needed i.e. phone, email, media player mainly for podcasts. So given all the reported issues with WP8 and podcasts (no Zune client to manage the subscription/sync and you can only subscribe through the store if …
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DDDNorth session voting is now open
Richard Fennell Aug 15, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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You can now vote for the sessions you wish to see at DDNorth2
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Hope to see you there on Saturday 12th October 2013 in Sunderland

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Why is my TFS Lab build picking a really old build to deploy?
Richard Fennell Aug 1, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I was working on a TFS lab deployment today and to speed up testing I set it to pick the build of the TFS build that actually builds the code, as opposed to queuing a new one each time. It took me ages to remember/realise why it kept trying to deploy some ancient build that had long since been deleted from my test …
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Fix for ‘Cannot install test agent on these machines because another environment is being created using the same machines’
Richard Fennell Jul 29, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I recently posted about adding extra VMs to existing environments in Lab Management. Whilst following this process I hit a problem, I could not create my new environment there was a problem at the verify stage. It was fine adding the new VMs, but the one I was reusing gave the error ‘Microsoft test manager cannot …
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Making the drops location for a TFS build match the assembly version number
Richard Fennell Jul 27, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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A couple of years ago I wrote about using the TFSVersion build activity to try to sync the assembly and build number. I did not want to see build names/drop location in the format 'BuildCustomisation_20110927.17’, I wanted to see the version number in the build something like 'BuildCustomisation 4.5.269.17'. The …
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I can never remember the command line to add use to the TFS Service Accounts group
Richard Fennell Jul 26, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I keep forgetting when you use TFS Integration Platform that the user who the tool (or service account is running as a service) is running as has to be in the “Team Foundation Service Accounts” group on the TFS servers involved. If they are not you get a runtime conflict something like …
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An attempted return for ‘Brian the build bunny’
Richard Fennell Jul 23, 2013 · 7 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Background
Back in 2008 Martin Woodward did a post on using a Nabaztag as a build monitor for TFS, ‘Brian the build bunny’. I did a bit more work on this idea and wired into our internal build monitoring system. We ended up with a system where a build definition could be tagged so that it’s success or failure caused …

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