I’m on the road a /lot/ – about every week or so, working onsite with our customers to either help them get new technologies implemented, or help them recover from some pretty interesting situations. This past week I was onsite with a customer who has decided on Team Foundation Server as the corporate standard for…
MSBuild task to recursively delete all of a folder’s contents
Following the Perl mantra of TMTOWTDI – we had a question come up about how to recursively delete a folder’s contents – without deleting the folder itself – using MSBuild. There are several solutions, but if you have a lot of crud to delete, one of the faster ways is to create a target which…
C# and Beginning Programmers / Ruby and Netbeans
Combination of two interesting articles this evening. The first is that there is a new Ruby IDE on the block – NetBeans! Offering Code Completion and Rails support, it should be pretty cool. Here’s the full article. Speaking of programming, Microsoft released a new dev center for – beginning developers! The Beginner Developer Learning Center…
Very disheartening XP post
I was catching up on some of my mailing lists this evening when I came across the following post by the Agile Coach at my former employer: One of our development groups, 4 XP teams, just ended a 3 month period of management imposed overtime. The result was lower velocity, more defects delivered to production,…
Yes, you should care about Daylight Savings Time this year
Every year, we get treated to an extra (or lost) hour of sleep or work when Daylight Savings Time changes. This year, there may be many lost hours of sleep if you aren’t watching your computer systems. That’s because this year DST starts three weeks earlier. Yep, Congress changed when it starts. The problem is…
TFS Power Tool released
WooHoo! The TFS team released a shiny new set of TFS Power Tools. They include some tools that I’m always being asked for onsite, including: A Process Template Editor – for editing those nifty Process Templates that make up the core of Team Projects Check-In packs – they finally included what has to be one…
Microsoft and Ruby
An interesting Infoworld article I came across this morning has Forest Key of Microsoft telling some internet chatters that they are “very interested” in Ruby. Well, they did hire John Lam, so I’m sure there is some truth to that, but it was in relation to the Expressions toolkit, so it will be interesting to watch…
Pulling unique email addresses out of a file
I’m taking a couple of days off of work, and trying to get caught up on some stuff that I’d let sit during the baby, move and new job. One of those things is my emails. I own my own domain, and I have an email address which is a catchall for anything that gets…
Swinging by Austin, TX
Tomorrow and Tuesday has me heading to Austin, TX. I’m actually pretty happy about this trip – I’ll get to hang out with Jason Darling and Scott Bellware at the Austin .NET User’s Group tomorrow night. Plus, I get to stay in warm temperates (unlike Philadelphia where I was last week). If you’ll be in…
Portal Site != WSS Site != Site != Subweb != Site Collection != ???
Sharepoint is a neat product. It has the potential to help organizations do quite a bit as far as collaboration, managing data, etc. But for some reason, people talk about Sharepoint with slightly gritted teeth that only now do I fully understand. What do I mean? Check out Todd Bleeker’s blog post from over a…