Whilst doing some tidying on a multi-server TFS 2010 system I needed to move a team project collection from one Application Tier (AT) to another. Both ATs (which were not a load balanced pair) shared the same SQL server data tier (DT). It should have been easy using the TFS Administration Console.

I backed up the TPC …

When loading an ASP.NET 3.5 web application that has been compiler for Any CPU onto an IIS7 server I got the error

The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.

This was because the server was running a 64bit OS and only the 32bit Access Driver was installed. The quick fix to get this …

Black Marble’s first WP7 game has been published onto the Marketplace, a game of strategy. Choose to grow the number of counters you have your jump squares to gain territory.

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I recently was asked why a client had experienced some unexpected results when merging a development branch back into the main trunk on a TFS 2010 installation.

Turns out the issue was that during some tests that the both the Main and Dev branches had been renamed, and new branches of the same names created. So they …

A few days ago I got the regular ‘there is a new version of seesmic’ message.

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So I pressed update and got the less than …

Just spent an interesting hour trying to connect a Netgear WG111v2 USB WiFi Dongle to Netgear (Sky Branded) DG834GT router. They are both from the same manufacturer so you would they would work together!

This router was setup with its default Sky settings so WiFi was setup as WPA.

I installed the WG111 onto an XP …

I was busy for the few minutes that the DDD9 registration was open, so did not manage to get on the attendee list, but I have been try to keep an eye on that is going on at Twitter.

The good news is that there are more DDD events on the way

• DDD Belfast - March 2011
• DDD Scotland - May 7th 2011

Session submissions are …