I'm probably late to the party, but I very rarely bother to update the firmware on my iPod. I'd heard the new iPod Updater (2005-06-26) contains support for podcasts but had not seen any details anywhere. I can confirm it is worth the effort if you listen to podcasts on your iPod.
Continue Reading I couldn't find this with a quick google, so guessed the answer. If you want to pass login credentials to the Hatteras command line client (h.exe or soon to be renamed tf.exe) then you can use the /login command line parameter. The bit I couldn't find in the helpfile is that the format is /login:username,password.
Continue Reading Bill Caputo has posted an interesting article discussing inheritance in C#, especially when using interfaces. I learned about OO while learning how to write Java, so I still struggle with the fact that methods in C# are not virtual by default.
Continue Reading At the risk of prompting someone to ask for them, Dan Fernandez has posted a neat stored procedure utility that inspects your sprocs and can give you come basic code metrics on them as well. If any managers are reading, just remember that code metrics are not a direct measure of productivity.
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[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/blog/itunes_podcasts.html)I downloaded version 4.9 of iTunes today that contains support for Podcasts. Overall it seems ok, very easy to use but no support for Bittorrent which means I'll be sticking with nimiq for a while yet to keep up to date with DotNetRocks.
Continue Reading Thanks to a load of great work from Alexis Kartmann, the nDumbster project is now in a state that I would recommend it's use for real world projects. nDumbster is a .Net port of the Dumbster project which is maintained by Jason Kitchen.
Continue Reading Update (Jan 2006): If you would like to use some of the features of VSTS from Eclipse then you might want to take a look at my new employer, Teamprise. They provide an eclipse plugin to access Team Foundation Source Control from Eclipse running on multiple platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Continue Reading Joe has managed to get an article into the August edition Dr Dobbs Journal about our VSTSEclipse project. Good work fella! Now all we need to do is get it written...
Continue Reading If you have ever tried interoperability between an MS environment and any of the others you are likely to have tripped over NTLM authentication before now. Obviously there is no RFC for this one, but Eric Glass has an excellent explanation of NTLM that was gathered by reading public available information and a bit of...
Continue Reading Just found this interesting article on documentation in Agile projects by Scott Ambler. As with everything in the Agile world, we must strive to do _just enough_ to meet the business objectives - this includes documentation.
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