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February 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:28 AM

Can anyone say Shadowfax?

Announcing the Policy Injection Application Block
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:44 AM

TFS Event Subscription Tool

On CodePlex a project by Jeff Atwood was started for making it much easier to work with TFS Event Subscriptions . I imagine that you should expect another release out on the product soon. One of the deficiencie is that similar to earlier releases of the
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:37 AM

A Sample Four Day Team System Envisioning

I perform a lot of work with Team System often in some sizable companies. As such, I often do a envisioning, or POC phases with a client that can run from days to weeks depending on the nature of the client need. As an example of an agenda that might
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:29 AM

Note to Self-- nLite and vLite - Windows and Vista configuration tool

Note to self. Blog this http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html Link to vLite - Windows Vista configuration tool
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:55 AM

If you are a Lutz Roeder Reflector Fan... and who isn't

Make sure you check out The Stuff about Stuff blog post about Lutz Roeder's release of Reflector 5.0
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:34 AM

Virtual PC 2007 RTM

It's been moved to RTM you can find it here: Virtual PC 2007 RTM Download
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Friday, February 16, 2007 12:13 PM

Borland Open ALM

My feed burped up Mickey's post on an eweek article on Borland Open ALM . You can find Borland's Open ALM introduction on their site. Very interesting. I plan to read more on it and see what it is. Sounds like a lot to promise to me if there is a backend
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:15 AM

This is indeed cool

I have not done embedded work but have done a good bit of mobile devices in a past life and I agree with James Manning - this is cool (.NET Micro Framework)
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:56 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista release notes

Take a look at the Release Notes for SP1 to Visual Studio 2005 . Published today. Looks like I should soon find the actual release version of the service pack. Woohoo. Technorati tags: VSTS , TFS , Vista
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:18 PM

blocked .CHM

This is nothing new to most people but for those that are just starting out and in an effort to better document and pass along questions that I get asked. If you download the Admin guide and Install Guide and get an image that looks like the following
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:15 PM

New wiki setup

Getting a new wiki setup. Feel free to jump in and help yourself. Registration is easy and starts out with full edit capabilities. I'll write more up later. The new wiki is at: http://manicprogrammer.com/wiki
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:42 PM

My Readyboost Performance run results

I have a Toshiba R25-S3513 Convertable Tablet. It has 3 GB of RAM with a maximum of 4 that it can support. It's a Core 2 Duo (64bit) running Vista x86. I had the 4GB Patriot XT XPorter High Speed USB Flash . The flash drive is 233x I think and about 32MB/s.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:06 PM

Team System Chat a surreal experience

It was a surreal experience in the Team System Chat that occurred today. What was surreal about it you ask? Well, that on the question asking side was Eric Lee . It was strange to see him as a participant asking questions of the experts versus being on
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:52 AM

Team System Chat Today

Don't forget to join the Team System Chat today, if you can. I have a meeting that will likely take me right up to the time it starts but hope I can make it myself. Join the chat on Wednesday, February 7th from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:33 AM

Don't forget the arcouncil Meeting

Don't forget this months arcCouncil meeting on Monday. Event Name: arcouncil: The Web 2.0 Architecture Location: Microsoft Waltham Room: City: Waltham Start Date: 02/12/2007 Start Time: 10:30 AM End Date: 02/12/2007 End Time: 05:00 PM
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Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:41 AM

My GTD approach with Outlook 2007 and Timeboxing

My life has been pretty complicated lately- lots of people wanting lots of things and me, ever the person desiring to please, doing my best to accommodate. To top it off I have issues with staying on focus. Go figure. Recently, a respected and new co-worker
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:15 AM

I really was hoping for the Frogger game

Well, another month has ended with Community Credit and I placed 6th. Some of these guys accumulate massive points each month and I have no idea how they do so. Amazing. But my little reward for my small contribution to the community is below. I was really
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:08 AM

Version Control in Patterns and Practice

I always tell folks one of the few places I'd probably be really heartily enticed to work within Microsoft is Patterns and Practice and DevDiv. I'd make the coffee for patterns and practice if that was the only position I could get and is likely the only
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