Improving TF Command Line Performance
Buck Hodges has done an excellent post on improving performance of the team foundation source control command line (tf.exe). More details here.
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[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/blog/tfs_properties_full.png)The source control system within Visual Studio Team System has a very powerful security model. One of the nice things is that if a user does not have read permissions on one of the objects in a tree, then that object is totally hidden from view - the...
Continue Reading Opening Pandora's Box
Just discovered the website - Pandora. Basically, it allows you to create a streaming music station by typing in the names of some songs or bands that you like. It will then play you music by those artists and similar ones.
Continue Reading Configuring NTP on Windows Server 2003
Recently, a colleague and I were struggling to get a Windows 2003 domain controller configured to use an external NTP time source. We were doing all the old registry hacks that you used to have to do to no affect.
Continue Reading HowTo: Configure SVN+SSH with Subclipse on Windows
Problem: Use ssh tunnelling to access a Subversion repository using SSH tunneling (i.e. with a subversion repository url of svn+ssh://myservername/myrepo) using the Subclipse subversion integration with Eclipse. I tried various things and used each of the three interfaces for configuring Subclipse (Window, Preferences.
Continue Reading Google Analysis
[](/images/blog/geomap.html)Well, despite the massive load that Google Analytics took, they have done me proud and are now happily tracking the data from 3 of the sites I look after that I'm most interested in. This blog, VSTSPlugins and VSTSEclipse.
Continue Reading Ready to Launch Ireland Talk
If you had the mis-fortune of hearing me speak at the Belfast launch event for SQL 2005 / Visual Studio 2005 / Biztalk 2006 this morning then the following links may be of interest:-Rob Caron's Blog - Best place for VSTS related information Visual Studio Team System - Official Microsoft pages VSTSPlugins - Open source...
Continue Reading All Our Base Are Belong To Google?
Ok, so I'm probably not the first or the last person to use that sentance. Anyway, Google Base is responding to requests. See the Google Blog post for more details. This could develop into a massive tagged, searchable repository or it could just be another Web 2.
Continue Reading Google Analytics
Google has recently announced it's new Analytics service. I've just added the tracker to this site so we'll see what the data looks like in a few hours. From all the screen shots it looks pretty nice, will post an update when I see what it thinks to my small site traffic...
Continue Reading Team System VPC Available
Via Joe, the new Team System VPC is now available for download at the MSDN Download Center. Installing Team System is an education in itself and one of the best ways to learn how all the moving parts hang together. However it does take a while to install (especially into a VPC).
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