From the monthly archives:

December 2007

TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 delivered for Christmas

December 22, 2007TFS

Brian Harry announces the release of the TFS 3008 Power Tools. Download here. There's a new MSSCCI provider too. (But not the Data Dude tools – they're coming later.)
The TFS team is on fire lately.
Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Power Tools, Brian Harry

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Craig Boyd discusses the Vista progress bar in VFP

December 22, 2007Visual FoxPro

A nice little post from Craig Boyd covering the various Vista progress bar states and how they can be controlled in  Visual FoxPro (VFP).
Long time no see Craig, great to see your brilliance shining again on the blogosphere.
Technorati Tags: Craig Boyd, Visual FoxPro, VFP, Progress bar

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Welcome to BlogEngine.NET 1.3

December 21, 2007BlogEngine.NET

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.3 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only one thing you need to do from this point on to take full advantage of the blog and that is to set up the first author profile.

Write Permissions

To be [...]

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ELCOM: Developers going dark

December 21, 2007Elcom

Microsoft developers (I’m told) have the option to ‘go dark’ at times. At least that’s what Joe Schwetz indicated at a recent Sydney Deep meeting. The aim is to allow them to catch up on projects that are running behind. The process involves killing all distractions (email, blogs, phone calls, IM, etc) and focusing on [...]

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Political correctness link

December 19, 2007Humour

Yep, I agree with Wayne that this is getting silly. Sesame Street being wound back due to all that harmful stuff they did in the 70s, 80s and 90s. No wonder this world is in such a mess
But fear not, the pendulum swings both ways and in a decade or so we'll see [...]

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Pex – Test generation for .NET

December 19, 2007Microsoft

Microsoft Research has a nice idea coming with its Pex dynamic unit test creation project. It aims to automatically generate unit tests based on your current code being developed. It sounds pretty cool.
 
But it begs the following parody 'tip'. So, here's a great idea for developing your own massive software empire:
1. Start with the seed [...]

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uTest – software testing community

December 19, 2007General Tech

uTest claims to be a community of software testing service providers. Need some QA done on your applications? Perhaps this is part of your answer. How do I know this is going to be big? Easy, they have their own uTest Debit Card.
(via TechCrunch)
Technorati Tags: uTest, Testing, QA

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Here comes another bubble v1.1

December 19, 2007Humour

Not wanting to be the only person on the planet who hasn't linked to this, here's my late link.
After some silly copyright hoo-haa last week, a revised version is up on YouTube. This time there's some bonus material – the credits (which will be read by a total of 4 people, maybe less .
Technorati [...]

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Virtual Hosting blog – should be awarded for most inappropriate name

December 19, 2007General Tech

I've been a big fan of the Virtual Hosting blog for the last 3 months or so
Just about every post is bookmarked in my RSS reader for further reading and reflecting on.
If you aren't subscribed already, then head over here or subscribe here.
Today's post on Stress Busting Tips (50 of them no less!) [...]

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Greg Low and Peter Myers to head up Solid Q Australia

December 19, 2007General Tech

Greg breaks the news about leaving Readify to set up the Australian arm of Solid Quality – a SQL Server consulting and training powerhouse. The news itself will be of interest to many, but I was most taken with his formula of 1 week training for every 3 weeks consulting as the ideal. I'm sure [...]

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Microsoft CRM 4.0 goes RTM

December 19, 2007Microsoft

Microsoft has announced that CRM 4.0 is now being shipped. The met their Q4 promise, but the release parties don't start until March – what's up with that? Just shows how much work goes into a release party these days I guess.
(via Mary Jo)
Technorati Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft CRM

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The impending recession – advice from Scoble

December 19, 2007General Tech

A nice list of things we should be doing all the time (not just when we sniff a change in the economic winds). Well, except perhaps point 17.
Technorati Tags: Robert Scoble, Recession

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Yahoo Maps replaces Flex 1.5 with AJAX

December 19, 2007Technology

A surprising move in some ways, but interesting because it may have been more political than technical. I don't know the details, and I don't what the best technical solution for Yahoo is in this case; but I do know that 'the best tool for the job' is often ignored – I've seen it plenty [...]

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urlTea

December 18, 2007Technology

Why? Because it's handy. http://urltea.com
Technorati Tags: urlTea

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Google Knol

December 18, 2007Technology

What's interesting about Knol (screenshot here), is not the concept (good to see Google playing catchup for a change), but the concerns being raised. A step to far? What are you talking about – they've got a long way to go yet I'm sure. And please don't give me that don't be evil = 51% [...]

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Amazon SimpleDB

December 18, 2007Technology

Amazon has unveiled yet another really cool web offering, this time their SimpleDB web service. As many have observed already the beauty is not in the functionality (it is very simple after all – how did they come up with that name?) but the scalability. And cost. So cheap.
As Dave notes, much venture capital raising [...]

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NASA Space Shuttle TV Schedule to Outlook on CodePlex

December 16, 2007VSTO

CodePlex project for transferring NASA info to Outlook.
Technorati Tags: CodePlex, VSTO

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Building Outlook 2007 Solutions

December 16, 2007VSTO

Brian Randall article on MSDN of building an Outlook add-in that helps track flight information.
Technorati Tags: Brian Randell, VSTO, Outlook

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Ken Slovak Outlook 2007 templates

December 16, 2007VSTO

Outlook guru Ken Slovak has a site for Outlook 2007 Project templates.
Technorati Tags: Ken Slovak, VSTO

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Architecture of VSTO for VS2008 and .NET 3.5

December 16, 2007VSTO

This MSDN article covers the architecture of VSTO version 3.
Technorati Tags: VSTO

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