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Brian the Build Bunny Backgrounds

Martin Woodward
Date : 30 May, 2008
Categories :technology gadgets maker web podcast personal

[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/brian/wallpaper/) It turns out that the little video I posted yesterday has taken on a bit of a life of it's own. Last time I checked, it was in the top 10 Science and Technology posts for YouTube in Ireland.

Brian the Build Bunny

Martin Woodward
Date : 28 May, 2008
Categories :tfs technology gadgets maker web programming personal

I'm always keen try new and novel ways to keep in touch with the status of my software projects. Fortunately, Team Foundation Server provides many ways to do this.

Radio TFS 05: Common Team System Questions

Martin Woodward
Date : 23 May, 2008
Categories :tfs dotnet web podcast

[](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/radiotfs/~5/296872926/radiotfs_005.mp3) I've just posted the latest installment of Radio TFS. I'm actually a show behind on editing so expect to see episode 6 up soon.

What's Your Pocket Knife Language?

Martin Woodward
Date : 19 May, 2008
Categories :technology dotnet web programming

As a professional programmer, the languages I code in during the day are very much dependant on the particular project I am working on. Also as a programmer I have a very low threshold for repetitive or complex tasks - basically if I have to do something more than twice then I'll probably write a quick program to do...

Infragistics use of Teamprise

Martin Woodward
Date : 16 May, 2008
Categories :tfs technology dotnet gadgets maker teamprise web personal

[](http://www.infragistics.com/Default.aspx)Infragistics is the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Tablet PC and Java (JSF) environments. I think they can count most of the Fortune 2000 as customers of theirs.

Increasing the size of a VMWare Disk

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 May, 2008
Categories :git tfs technology gadgets web

I am currently playing with SP1 of VSTS 2008 and TFS 2008 in a Windows Server 2008 VMWare instance I have. Whenever I created this particular instance I kept the disk space at 16Gb which is normally plenty for these play instances but after installing the service pack of VSTS my disk space was getting low.

Apple - The New Real?

Martin Woodward
Date : 22 Apr, 2008
Categories :git technology maker web

Sigh. Apple are really starting to get on my nerves. Not only is iTunes on Windows consistently very buggy, slow and foreign looking in the Windows OS - they are now trying to trick Windows users into installing Safari. On this particular machine I have never installed Safari, and I never want to.

TFS Build API by Example #1: Queue a build.

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 Apr, 2008
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web programming

[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/TFSBuildAPIbyExample1Queueabuild_C1CE/BuildAPI_2.gif) As we all know by now - the build system in TFS2008 was substantially improved. Along with the many improvements came an official API for talking to the build system.

Radio TFS #4 - Team System 2008 Development Edition

Martin Woodward
Date : 07 Apr, 2008
Categories :tfs technology maker web podcast

I've just posted the fourth episode of Radio TFS. In this episode Paul and Mickey talk about Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition while I ask dumb questions and go off on tangents. Despite this, it is actually one of our better episodes to date.

IMTC 2008: Automating Builds with Team Foundation Server 2008

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 Apr, 2008
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming

Thanks to everyone who attended my session this afternoon at IMTC 2008 in Dublin. As promised, here is a copy of the slide deck. Automating Builds with Team Foundation Server 2008 (pdf - 1.

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