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February 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:01 PM

A Burndown Chart I Can Live With

Though I am not too pleased with the "Actual Velocity" this is a burndown chart I can live with. The up tick you see in the first image are from tasks that were added one day and then corresponding amount of estimated effort removed from sprint the following
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:11 AM

Silverlight Won Out

The other day in a small spurt I bemused my options for napping, working on a sorely needed domain model or working on Silverlight. Silverlight 2 won out in the end and I am glad it did. I had issues galore which is the best way to learn. Especially as
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:59 AM

A Few Things I Look Forward To In Rosario

After months of working with Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (Orcas) during it's haul in CTP's and betas and the short lived RC (was there an RC? I forget- seems like we skipped right over that) I am still learning and finding goodness in it. That, of course,
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:30 AM

DDD, a nap or Silverlight and TFS

Now if that is not a broad title what is? I'm torn at the moment between spending some time working on a domain design that is sorely needed for my day job, reading and taking a nap- because I do not feel all that well, or working on a Silverlight 2.0
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:39 AM

KB935796 Vista SP1 and Things That You Should Expect To Stop Working And 1 I Would Have Never Guessed

KB935796 titled "Information about programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer". I took a look because I run AVG anti-virus and wanted to make sure I wasn't on the list of
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:15 AM

Vista SP1 - You may now see it in your auto updates.

I had speculated in an earlier post that Microsoft would release SP1 to the broader public earlier than the mid-March that they had been indicating. Guess what. They have done just. Only not in the way I had anticipated. Instead they did it in a way that
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 12:35 PM

TeamBuild OutDir, Item Expansion and Why Your Copy Task Gave You Nothing

I have been meaning to blog this for a long time and not too long ago the question came up again. So after seeing the question raised about three times I decided to add one more link out to the cloud that might be found to help people out. One of the
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:20 AM

Vista SP1 and My Notebook as a Dog

I've been wondering why my notebook has been running like a dog lately. It was up to some of its old tricks. The trick that involved opening windows explorer when you have mapped drives and even on the local drives it just staring at you with a blank
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