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Do you come here often?

Martin Woodward
Date : 06 Oct, 2007
Categories :technology gadgets maker web personal

An odd smirk followed by "You come here a lot" is not what you want to hear when at the customs desk waiting to come into the US. Immediately I expected the worst - an armed SWAT team absailing from the ceiling to lead me off into a quiet room for interrogation while the snapping sounds of latex gloves ricochet out of...

"Admin Command Prompt Here" Registry Hack

Martin Woodward
Date : 05 Oct, 2007
Categories :git technology maker web programming personal

A neat (if not well known) feature of Windows Vista is the built in ability to do a "Command Prompt Here" by selecting a folder, keeping the shift key down and right clicking on the folder. While this is neat, I've sometimes found myself needing an Command Prompt with full administrative privileges.

Windows Server 2008 RC0

Martin Woodward
Date : 28 Sep, 2007
Categories :technology maker web

RC0 of Windows Server 2008 was made available earlier this week. I am currently installing it inside a Virtual PC and I have to say I'm impressed so far. The installation process is much faster and smoother.

TFS Migration and Synchronization for ClearCase

Martin Woodward
Date : 17 Sep, 2007
Categories :git tfs technology web

Brian Harry has posted some great news over on his blog - Microsoft have release a new tool to allow users to migrate from ClearCase to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

Skype Woes

Martin Woodward
Date : 16 Aug, 2007
Categories :technology dotnet gadgets maker web

Skype seems to have been having trouble this morning. At first I thought it was a set of Windows Vista Updates I'd applied - but when the problem started affecting my hardware based Skype phone as well my suspicions went to my ISP. I was thinking that they were doing some traffic shaping or something to Skype traffic.

CruiseControl 2.7.1 RC3 - now with TFS Support!

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 Aug, 2007
Categories :git tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web

Paul Julius just announced that RC3 of CruiseControl 2.7.1 has been released from the Agile 2007 conference. From my point of view this is fantastic news, because it includes a patch I submitted to the project to include integration between CruiseControl and Team Foundation Server.

I Love Resharper

Martin Woodward
Date : 08 Aug, 2007
Categories :technology dotnet gadgets maker web programming personal

As I've mentioned before, I love Resharper from those crazily clever folks at JetBrains. Today I installed an Early Access version of 3.0.2 into Visual Studio 2008 and all the goodness has returned.

Running TFS 2008 (Beta 2) in Production

Martin Woodward
Date : 01 Aug, 2007
Categories :tfs technology maker teamprise web programming personal

Yesterday I sat down with my freshly downloaded Orcas Beta 2 media (thanks to the Secure Content Downloader from the good folks at Microsoft Research in Cambridge) and upgraded our production TFS instance.

Vote for your favorite systems to migrate off.

Martin Woodward
Date : 24 Jul, 2007
Categories :tfs web programming

Now that the V1 of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit is up and running on CodePlex, Matt and the team are looking for feedback on what systems you would like migration options allowing you to abandon your old system and move to TFS.

30 Useful Team Build Properties

Martin Woodward
Date : 24 Jul, 2007
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker web programming

If you are going to get into the Zen of TFS Team Build, then at some point you are going to have to read the TeamBuild .targets file (located in %ProgramFiles%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets).

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