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January 2007 - Posts

Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:45 PM

Dimensions, Details and Measures attributes on TFS Workitem fields

Similar to the previous post this post spawns from an MSDN forum question about why added fields weren't showing up in the TFS warehouse. In the XML schema for the fields there is an attribute 'reportable' which can take values of "dimension", "detail"
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Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:37 PM

Limiting TFS Workitem 'Assigned To' values based on role

I decided I should cross post this information. I often times do not blog a lot of the technical things I come across or dish out to others, whether it be correct or incorrect. I'm trying to change that. In that spirit I thought I would cross post this
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Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:03 AM

What every office needs

There is no doubt my wife would never let me get this unless something tragic happens and it's an alternative to me doing nothing. This could be dangerous for those all-nighters. But it is very comforting to know such things exist if I did have a special
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:31 AM

MOSS 2007 API- Checkout the file before you Checkit out

I love this. Note in the picture below the command I am giving is against a file in MOSS 2007. What's the method Checkout(). Then notice the exception it throws. Hmmmm... how do I check it out before I check it out. Does anyone have a 4th dimensional
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:52 AM

KT Tunstall - get the album - one degree from Portishead and while I'm thinking of it - gotta love Bebel Gilberto

On a non-technical entirely personal note. If you like folk/pop/rock and do not own KT Tunstall's Eye to the Telescope then I recommend you take a listen and I'm sure you will buy it just as I did. Why did I not buy this sooner I'll never know. Oh, and
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:37 AM

I couldn't agree more--- Martin and Keyword expansion

Martin Woodward posted a new entry on keyword expansion on his blog. This is the perfect example of where I should probably be blogging my comments I make to other people but often don't think about making those comments and request for feedback to the
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:47 PM

TechEd 2007 the build up

TechEd 2007 registration opened up recently for registration and for submission of Bird of a Feather Session. I am still waiting on my invite to make a call for papers proposal but have yet to receive one. ;-). Last year, I did a birds of a feather session.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:12 PM

An interesting post worth replicating

I found this to be an interesting post worth replicating. Title: Don't use Cassini if you're Doing AJAX. http://jonesie.net.nz/DontUseCassiniIfYourDoingAJAX.aspx Technorati tags: AJAX , Cassini
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:11 PM

Wikinomics and the String Theory of Software

I just received a new book I ordered. Wikinomics- How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything . I'm excited to get a chance to read it. I hope it turns out to be everything I'd expect. To wash it down with I have The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:09 AM

Triplet MVP

I just had to share this. Those in my office have seen this photo on my desk but I wanted to share it with a wider audience. After I received the MVP nod from Microsoft and my wonder wife Suzanne knowing how happy and proud I was recruited the triplets
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:42 AM

arcCouncil Web 2.0 a Zune and TeamSysPUG

Don't miss the next arcStream East arcCouncil meeting on February 12th. Bob Familiar fills us all in in his blog entry East Region arcCouncil - The topic this month is Web 2.0 . I missed the last one with much regret but certainly have this one marked
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:19 AM

Speaking of Scrum

wSpeaking of Scrum check out this new CodePlex Project VSTS Scrum Process Template . I look forward to trying it and if ever I get my own projects in line and contribute more to the TFS Admin Tool I'll definately be making some contributions to this project.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:14 AM

TFSServer Manager Tool

Make sure you check out Brian Harry's blog on TFSServer Manager Tool (yes, the name has a redundancy). Drop Brian a note and let him know what you think. pssst... Let him know you'd love to see it in the CodePlex collaborative source for PowerToys. Technorati
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Friday, January 19, 2007 1:32 PM

Orcas this weekend

Planning on all Team System all the time weekend to include my first foray into Orcas. I'll let you know and a post on Project Creation Wizard which is part of the forthcoming book.
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Friday, January 19, 2007 6:28 AM

Code Camp 7 - Deer in the Headlights

Come one, come all! The official save the date for " Code Camp 7 - Deer in Highlights " has been announced by Chris Bowen . I love that title and is probably a bit of a self reference as Chris has recently moved into Microsoft and into the role that Thom
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:45 AM

You know it's the new year when...

You know the new year has started and plans for personal organization and goal setting are in high swing when Noah Coad posts about Task Management Software (To Do Lists) and I think Perfect! Exactly what I was planning to do. Add to my To Do list to
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:38 AM

A VS 2005 Project Template for SharePoint Solution Deployment

I'm pretty new to SharePoint development and I have been cutting my teeth specifically and completely on MOSS 2007. I created a SharePoint Solution Package the other day and thought- OMG why is there not a template for this. Then yesterday I was just
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Friday, January 12, 2007 4:52 PM

My Prize from Community Credit

In December I was awarded 16th place at Community Credit . My prize came in the mail the other day. It was a very momentus occassion. I received a giant microbe of the Helicobacter Pylori type. Below is a picture I took. It now hangs in my cube at Magenic
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Friday, January 12, 2007 4:47 PM

Your longest running team project

*Note- I actually started this post November 1, 2006 and it has sat in my Draft folder for some time. I had a friend ping me about some screwed up work item fields in some projects and this reignited my need to push this post out. I spend a lot of time
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:04 PM

Welcoming Steve St. Jean to Magenic

Sometime next week Steve St. Jean will be joining Magenic in the Boston office. I look forward to working with him more closely.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:00 PM

As a Treo 700w user I have a secret...

I own a Treo 700w and love my device. I also own an iPod and have for a few years and I love my IPod. Magenic gave us all Zunes at the holiday- I haven't opened mine and plan to sell it because I really like my iPod and see no reason to change at this
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Monday, January 08, 2007 10:26 PM

If you haven't been reading Eric Lee's new blog...

I have to say that I enjoy reading Eric Lee's new blog more now than I did when he was with Microsoft. I'm not sure that anything has really changed about it except that it's now on his own website for his company CounterPunch Software. But for some reason
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Monday, January 08, 2007 8:40 PM

Tagged - 5 Things you probably didn't know about me

Rob tagged me and now I will fulfill my obligation of telling five things you probably didn't know about me. The funny thing is I found Mr. Caron's five things to be eerily close to some of the things I could have said - such as college experiences and
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Monday, January 08, 2007 2:26 PM

Impact Assessment in TFS Work Item Fields

In the CMMI template for work items in the analysis tab of a requirement the amount of text is very limited- 247 ascii characters by my count. I haven't looked at the database to see what the field definition says. Nonetheless, I find this very limiting
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:16 AM

Proud that Anthony was recognized as well...

I'm proud that Anthony Borton who writes his My VSTS Blog was also recognized and awarded Microsoft MVP status. He noted it in his blog entry . He is well deserving. If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting and dealing with Anthony then I hope you get
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:13 AM

I'm honored to now be a new Microsoft MVP

I received a wonderful piece of email in my inbox today. The mail was an award and recognition as a Microsoft MVP . I joined the ranks of some very well respected folks in the MVP category of Visual Developer - Team System . We're a small group and I
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Monday, January 01, 2007 9:07 AM

Critical security update for Visual Studio 2005 ?!

How did I not know about this update before today? I just happened to run across it. Perhaps because I am running SP1 this was included but maybe not. Plus SP1 came out about a week after this patch so I would have expected my machine to have installed
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Monday, January 01, 2007 7:56 AM

Brad Appleton corrects my cite and adds more info

If you had any interest in my post on Recommendations in SCM Branching Patterns in TFS make sure you go back and take a look at the comments. I started the new year with a response from one of the cited authors. Embarrassingly, I cited incorrectly. Fortunately
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