With Team Build in Team Foundation Server, you can have multiple build types for multiple projects. For example, we have a build that runs fast that we can have running Continuous Integration on, and a slower build (that does obfuscation, release packaging etc) that is run on demand when we want to perform a release...
Continue ReadingA new project has been released over on CodePlex from the Patterns and Practices folks which attempts to improve the guidance generation process. "The interim solution makes it easier to customise the narrative guidance than the current mechanisms, but I should emphasize that it will be replaced by our longer term...
Continue ReadingPeople go on about iPod + iTunes + Store being this all time great combination. I'll admit that I love my iPod, and if/when one comes out with similar capabilities to the iPhone player I'll be buying it. However, I don't think I'm being controversial here when I say that iTunes on Windows really sucks.
Continue ReadingAs I've mentioned before - keyword expansion is a feature that many SCM tools have, but TFS does not. Buck Hodges has just published an excellent post on why this is the case and talks about some of the approaches that people have tried to get around this. Definitely worth a read.
Continue ReadingThis took me a while to figure out, so I am writing down here to help me remember later. It may also be useful if you are playing with Gmail at all (BTW, the spam filtering on Gmail is very good).
Continue ReadingThe blogosphere today is buzzing with news of the other launch happening today, but there is one a bit closer to my own heart - Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) has been released. I'm downloading it right now. I've been running Eclipse 3.
Continue ReadingBy the time I post this, you'll probably see it posted a hundred places, however on the rare chance that you only read my blog and not one of the many other great blogs about team system, can I point you to the upcoming Team System chat.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/AllYourDisksAreBelongToUs_9643/Win_vista_men%5B3%5D.gif) With the Trustworthy Computing initiative, we'd all thought the days of easter eggs>) in Microsoft products had died, however three enterprising young men from the Anti-piracy Team at Microsoft managed to get...
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/STS117Launch_856A/shuttle_trail%5B10%5D.jpg) At 4pm the floor of TechEd 2007 closed and I headed straight off to Cocoa Beach to find a spot to watch the Shuttle launch. It was great driving along the roads, past all the people parked up on the side of the road.
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Grr, Ed has laid down the gauntlet and gone to rather extreme lengths to beat my claim to have the world's smallest TFS Proxy server up and running. I'm off to go talk to the embedded folks...
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