Poster child of the Web 2.0 movement and all round general legends Meebo have just launched a new service called MeeboMe that allows you to host a flash based chat window on your website and allow people to send you IM messages. It is in Alpha stages at the moment so may well cause problems.
Continue Reading Lately a shocking thing has happened. People have started reading my blog. While this probably isn’t surprising to you (the reader) it is highly surprising to me (the author). I started blogging as a way to make it easier for me to find stuff in Google.
Continue Reading I recently did an interview for Port 25 (the website for Microsoft’s Open Source Lab). If you would like to listen to the podcast then it is now available here. The interview was recorded in a week when NTLM authentication was high on my mind (as you can tell).
Continue Reading Today we released Teamprise V1.1 to the general public (available here). Version 1.1 is a maintenance release to address several issues that our customers have reported. Most notably, Version 1.1 now fully supports NTLM authentication (including NTLMv2).
Continue Reading UPDATE: Brian Harry has posted a new utility to help you determine the trial expiration dates on your server. View Brian's post for more details. Like a lot of early adopters, we installed the Team Foundation Server 180–day trial edition so that we could use is right away while we were waiting for our TFS license key.
Continue Reading I’ve just learnt something today from our resident tech-writer that I feel needs sharing. Apparently it is “old” to put two spaces after a full-stop (or “period” for you American’s out there). See the following articles for evidence:- http://www.webword.com/reports/period.html http://www.press.uchicago.
Continue Reading Teamprise currently requires a Java JRE with DES encryption available in the JVM for the magic of NTLM authentication to work correctly. Unfortunately, the GCJ that ships by default with Ubuntu and other Debian based distributions does not have one.
Continue Reading By default, the maximum attachment size for attachments to work items in Team Foundation Server is 4Mb. It is handy that this feature exists because people may accidentally attach massive files when they should really be attaching something a little smaller.
Continue Reading Thanks to the folks that dropped by the webcast early today. Hopefully it was ok – I found it very weird talking to the sheep in the field outside my house while all you folks were “out there”. Anyway, here are some links that I promised to people during the Q&A Session.
Continue Reading Later today I’m presenting a webcast for Microsoft EMEA on Team Foundation Server Version Control. The registration process to sign up for it was a little complicated but apparently I’m allowed to give people the direct URL to log into the live meeting account as a participant.
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