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Testing for a Valid HTTP Server in Java

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 Feb, 2006
Categories :technology web programming podcast

I’m currently writing a diagnostics tool to perform all the same connectivity diagnostic checks that I do manually when I am having trouble connecting to something. The following code snippet is how I am checking to see if a web or proxy server is listening on a particular port.

Sky+ Brings Marital Strife

Martin Woodward
Date : 14 Feb, 2006
Categories :books web personal

Sky+ has been the saviour of our television viewing since it arrived shortly after my son did (not a coincidence). For those non-UK citizens reading this blog Sky+ similar to the Tivo but more locked down as it comes from the main satellite TV company here.

Delete Old Files

Martin Woodward
Date : 09 Feb, 2006
Categories :technology dotnet web programming

I was just trying to get some backups configured and I wanted a way of deleting files from a directory stucture that were older than a certain date. I couldn't figure out how to do it easier from a Windows 2003 command script, so I wrote a quick C# console app to do the job.

028 9018 4242 is the new 555

Martin Woodward
Date : 09 Feb, 2006
Categories :gadgets maker web programming podcast

Anyone who watches the Simpsons or Ghostbusters (555 2368) is aware that numbers beginning with 555 in the states are usually fake. While looking for information about international dialing from the UK, I stumbled upon the official Ofcom list of fake numbers - UK number ranges reserved for drama purposes.

Another RC Team Foundation Server Up and Running

Martin Woodward
Date : 08 Feb, 2006
Categories :tfs technology maker teamprise web

You'll probably be seeing a lot of these type of posts around the net, but I just wanted to say that I've got the RC version of Team Foundation Server up and running in a VPC. Apart from my only allocating the virtual server 384 Mb of memory for the first part - the installation went very smoothly.

Team Foundation Server RC on MSDN

Martin Woodward
Date : 08 Feb, 2006
Categories :tfs books web

I woke up this morning to find the Release Candidate version of Team Foundation Server in my MSDN Subscriber downloads site. Who-hoo! I am currently downloading it while reading the Beta 3 (refresh) to RC upgrade procedures.

Continuous Integration on Hanselminutes

Martin Woodward
Date : 01 Feb, 2006
Categories :tfs dotnet web podcast

Scott Hanselman's Hanselminutes podcast continues with this weeks episode about Continuous Integration. Jamie Cansdale (the genius behind TestDriven.NET) has posted about the tool Scott was on the way to mentioning when Karl interrupted him.

Check Out in Team System

Martin Woodward
Date : 01 Feb, 2006
Categories :tfs teamprise

Internally in Teamprise, we have been having a lot of discussions about check-in and check-out in Team System and how to explain this concept to our end users. The problem is that the terms are overloaded depending on the source control system that you come from.

Team Foundation Server Versioning Error

Martin Woodward
Date : 31 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology web programming

John Lawrence has posted an interesting tip about the error "Server did not recognize the value of the HTTP Header SOAPAction: http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06/Services/ServerStatus/02/CheckAuthentication".

Teamprise on Linux makes MS Keynote

Martin Woodward
Date : 31 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology dotnet teamprise web

At the keynote today at VSLive, Soma Somasegar publicly announced the availability of VSTS RC in the next week and the RTM in March 2006 - so basically the team are on track.

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