Migrating to TFS RTM Now that TFS has RTM’d, check here for documentation about migrating your test environments to a production environment. I’ve been eagerly awaiting this documentation so that we can finally get off our slow ass VM evaluation environment onto some brand spankin’ new hardware purchased to run TFS and nothin’ but TFS! 😉 I’ll be sure to post […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
A word on MSH (Monad) As you can probably tell by my last post, I spent some time learning MSH (formerly Monad) this weekend and am super pysched to use it as part of my every day problem solving. I picked up the Monad book by O’Reilly and and it was a really great jump start on learning the basics. Most […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
How to perform UI automation of browser apps with MSH (WATIR without the Ruby) For anyone who’s familiar with WATIR, check out this simple MSH script I whipped up: # Create an instance of IE$ie = new-object -ComObject “InternetExplorer.Application” # Navigate to MSN search$ie.Navigate(“http://search.msn.com”) # Make IE visible$ie.Visible = $true # Grab the DOM document instance$document = $ie.Document # !! See note at end of post !! # Get […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Web-to-Print This month’s Print Solutions Magazine is all about Web-to-Print and as part of their cover story they have an article that talks about Mimeo called Mimeo on the Move. Here’s the lead in with a great quote from our CEO: The industry’s fastest-growing company relies on speed, precision and web-to-print. Its aggressive CEO’s mission: Make “Mimeo” a […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Buying Team System Made Impossible Holy hell, has anyone else tried to purchase Team System or even get information about purchasing Team System from Microsoft? It’s ridiculous. People don’t even know about transitioning your MSDN Universal subscription. That’s all I wanted to do to start is transition to MSDN + Team Suite (where ya pay a little more money, but […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
ASP.NET (1.x and 2.x) maxRequestLength suckyness… So you need people to upload files to your web application, but you’re a smart developer and you want to make sure you’re not vulnerable to any kind of DoS. Luckily Microsoft has built a setting into the <httpRuntime> element of ASP.NET called maxRequestLength to govern the maximum size of an HTTP request. Great, problem solved! Well, […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
MSN customer wondering how/when Windows Live will affect me So I’ve subscribed to MSN at a yearly rate of $90 or so for the past three years because I love all the diff. services, the web browser and rich client for Hotmail access, etc. Now I’m watching all these richer Windows Live services roll out and I’m wondering when/if this stuff gets rolled into […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Mimeo Needs a Release Manager! We’re looking for someone experienced for this role… interested? If so, contact me with a link to your resume or I’ll email you back to get your resume if it’s not available online for whatever reason. Oh almost forgot, this person would be working out of our NYC office. Good luck! Update (3/15/06): This position has been […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
MVP Awards I received MVP awards in the C# and WPF technologies this last time around. It’s always an honor to be a part of the MVP programs and this time is no different. I feel especially honored to be one of only three WPF MVPs and have been working my butt off in the newsgroups and […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
It’s Been a While Well, hello there. Miss me? Well, I’ll just pretend that you did. 😉 The past few months have been quite eventful for myself as well as my company. Company wise here’s a couple things that have happened: From a development perspective: We finally delivered our new platform based almost entirely in C#/.NET 1.1 except for some small portions that still […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail