Category: General

In a recent post I talked about the house I grew up in, which had, among other things, a 40′ satellite dish (one of 5 working dishes) in addition to two towers, tracking domes and a whole treasure trove of cool electronic gear. I had several people comment that it was hard to believe, so just…

My official title is “Premier Field Engineer” which means that I travel a lot working with our customers who hold Premier contracts. Because of the world-wide nature of our business, we sometimes have to travel to different places. This often means that we have to deal with different cultures. Turns out we now have to…

Brian Keller has posted the notes from the presentation on converting Team Foundation Server to use WSS v3.0. I’d personally still recommend teams wait until Orcas when 3.0 should be baked in, but if it is a need in your organization, here’s the info. 

Oh dear. I’ve been tagged by Alan Ridlehoover. I’ve seen it go around, and I figured once it got past Brady Gaster I’d be safe, but I guess not. So, here’s 5 things you may not know about me: 1. Like Alan, I am a drummer. And a Guitar player. And a keyboardist. And a bassist. In…

Recently I was looking through some stuff, and found a quote I posted from Kelly Anderson on the Maverick Software Development list: Quality in real money terms (and that is the way we keep score in business) is the inverse of the expense of technical support. If technical support is a profit center, then quality…

Now this is cool news. It was announced a few days ago that Unit Testing and some other features are being moved out of the Developer and Tester Team System versions into the Professional version, meaning pretty much everyone will have access to it. However, I disagree with Brad Wilson that unit testing should be…

I had a customer ask me recently for a way to auto-generate Unit Tests for Web Services based only on the WSDL using Visual Studio. Now, those of you who know me know I would call those “Integration Tests” (or perhaps “Deathly Slow Tests”), but a need is a need, and it’s actually pretty straightforward….

This week I’ve been working with a customer to implement Forms Authentication for their MOSS site. Actually, it’s mixed authentication since they’ll have part via AD and part via a database. There are some great tutorials out there, but some people run into the problem I did – after modifying the web.config files, you have to add…

I’m catching up from my emails after being gone to an offsite event all week (what other company pays its employees to go to an offsite event and stay at the Bellagio in Vegas for a week?), and noticed that the Team Foundation Branching Guidance is now up and available on CodePlex. I saw a prerelease…