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Understanding the Branches Tab

Martin Woodward
Date : 11 Aug, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology maker teamprise web programming

Showing branch history in a visual way is not something that the current version 1.0 of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server client is great at. In fairness to the team, showing the branch history of files in an graphical way is pretty complicated and would involve many lines of code – especially when you build a...

VMWare Announce Intel Mac version at Apple WWDC

Martin Woodward
Date : 09 Aug, 2006
Categories :tfs technology books dotnet gadgets teamprise web programming podcast

I use VMWare a lot. As we work on a cross-platform client to Team Foundation Server, I not only need to test our client on many operating systems, I also run Team Foundation Server in VMWare to talk to test our client against. Teamprise Explorer and the Eclipse plug-in use SWT for the UI Layer.

Teamprise 2.0 Preview Program

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 Aug, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology books dotnet maker teamprise web programming personal

I know it only seems like a few moments have past since we released version 1.1 onto the unsuspecting public, but today we opened the doors a little on Version 2.0 as we start our 2.0 Preview Program.

MeeboMe

Martin Woodward
Date : 02 Aug, 2006
Categories :maker web podcast

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.

Feed Break-up

Martin Woodward
Date : 26 Jul, 2006
Categories :tfs technology books dotnet gadgets teamprise web programming personal

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.

Port 25 Podcast: Accessing VS Team Foundation Server from Mac, UNIX or Linux through Eclipse

Martin Woodward
Date : 24 Jul, 2006
Categories :tfs technology books maker teamprise web podcast

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).

Teamprise V1.1 Released

Martin Woodward
Date : 18 Jul, 2006
Categories :tfs technology teamprise web programming

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).

TFS Top Tip #7 - Determine when TFS Trial Edition will expire

Martin Woodward
Date : 06 Jul, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology maker web

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.

One Space or Two?

Martin Woodward
Date : 29 Jun, 2006
Categories :git technology gadgets maker web programming personal

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.

Java on Ubuntu

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Jun, 2006
Categories :teamprise web

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.

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