Category: General

I’ve been playing around with VS2005 and Team Foundation Server. Well, I’ve been reading several books on it, and getting my systems set up for it. I got Team Foundation Server (TFS – the Source Control portion) installed on a Virtual Machine, got Visual Studio (both the Dev and Tester) versions installed on another machine,…

Yesterday afternoon I got my spiffy new Dell in which will be my desktop in my home office. I decided to plop Windows 2003 Server on it since I want to setup several different things to play with. So, I popped in my trusty CD, fired up the installer, and began. I got only part-way…

So, I’m jumping on the Live Writer bandwagon here. Since I have 3 or 4 different blogs I post to, and because I’ve heard so many good things about the tool, I decided to give it a test drive.

Have you been using VSTS and have questions, or taken a look at want to see more of what it is all about? On November 8th, members of the VSTS product group are going to be available for an interactive chat about the features in the many different flavors of VSTS, and what’s new in…

One of the most striking things that I noticed when I first installed IE7 was that, of all things, the address bar was above the menu (File..etc) bar. And there was no simple way to just drag it up. Luckily someone was able to point me at the Registry fix, but I also stumbled across…

Love or hate Microsoft – they have some cool tools and IDEs out there. Of course, who has the time or machines to download all of those cool toys and play with them – not to mention licensing fees if you aren’t an MSDN subscriber? It looks like Microsoft is doing it’s best to help…

A couple of nights ago, some colleagues and I were discussing music over dinner. Well, we were talking about priacy and P2P, but it led into music. Music and songs are a unique thing. Often times one has to work to find a band they like, or a style of music. Before you invest in…

This afternoon I got a chance to have lunch with Tobin Titus, who moved from Charlotte up here to Redmond about 6 months ago to join the IIS team. It was great fun, and we got the chance to talk about many things. Afterwards he dropped me off at the Patterns and Practices group’s building….

Last night I finally broke down and bought a PDA phone – the XV6700 from Verizon Wireless. Basically my new position will have me on the road a lot, so I needed a phone which could sync with Exchange, have Bluetooth, and most importantly has a decent keyboard. So far I am very impressed with…

Today was NEO (New Employee Orientation) here in Redmond. We broke a record with the number of new people in one orientation class – over 300! It was really great being able to see that much talent together, and even more amazing hearing all of the different places people are coming to Redmond from –…