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Good news World's Smallest TFS Proxy fans. At 11:10 this morning, the friendly man from Dell appeared at my door with a new motherboard flown in from Holland this morning.
Continue ReadingGood news World's Smallest TFS Proxy fans. At 11:10 this morning, the friendly man from Dell appeared at my door with a new motherboard flown in from Holland this morning.
Continue ReadingThis morning we had a power cut which killed a particular tricky upgrade mid-way through trashing the machine I was attempting it on. Luckily the machine in question was a VM Ware image and I had recent taken a backup snap-shot so I only lost a few hours work.
Continue ReadingAnyone who has spent time on the inside of the Microsoft LAN knows that they have a ton of great internal tools and utilities that never make it into the outside world. One of those ones that did is Microsoft LogParser.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/TheMoonmeetsVenusinRandalstown_E185/moon_venus%5B3%5D.jpg) On Saturday night I took a look out my kitchen window and was met with this view of the Moon and Venus.
Continue ReadingIf the recent announcements about Silverlight have your interest and you can get to Dublin on June 7th this year then I would urge you to take a look at this years Irish community conference IMTC.
Continue ReadingRecently I had the pleasure of chatting with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell about Source Control and Continuous Integration - this was recorded for DotNetRocks and the show is now available for you to enjoy. As Eric has mentioned, I've been a fan of DNR for a while.
Continue ReadingI've just got back into the office after a week and a bit on vacation and was pleased to see a few announcements have been made while I was off sunning myself. We will be making our Java API for TFS available for license later in the year We released 2.1.2 of Teamprise Client Suite The Java API thing just makes sense.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/HelpinOrcastf.exe_BB18/Visual%20Studio%20Codename%20Orcas%20Command%20Prompt%5B2%5D.png)Ahh, in Beta 1 of the Team Explorer client, if you type "tf" in a Visual Studio command prompt, you get back help in the console, rather than a window popping up taking you to the...
Continue ReadingI wasn't at SD West this year, however I'd heard that Brian Harry was going to be doing an interesting keynote. Jack Vaughan has recently published some of his "take-aways" from Brian's presentation and it certainly looks like there was some good stuff in it. My favorite quote is:- “In version 1.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/admin_shell.ico) In Windows Vista, one of the first things I do on a new machine is create an "Admin Shell". The steps I do are as follows:- Copy the shortcut of your favorite command prompt (PowerShell or cmd.exe) Rename the shortcut "Admin Shell" or whatever you want.
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