Rediscovering the Obvious

Silverlight 2 RTW, or, how Microsoft choked

First, I'll repeat the news that's all over: Microsoft has released the "final" version of Silverlight 2.0 to the world! This is a major step for .NET developers, because it means we can do really incredible things on the web without massive injections Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:45 PM by willeke | 1 Comments

More thoughts on overtime

Every few months something triggers a series of thoughts in my head about overtime practices, behaviours, and incentives. Every time I think about it, my thoughts come back to a question of the relative incentives in the way our software development system. Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:22 PM by willeke | 0 Comments

What do you call the doctor who graduated last in his class?

A doctor, of course. And, by extension, what do you call somebody who passes a certification test with the minimum passing score? Certified! I'm glad to be done with it, even though I put off the second part over a year. I'm officially done with the 2005 Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:29 AM by willeke | 2 Comments

TFS Sql script - list policy overrides

I don't like to call out individual blame, but sometimes a bit o' shame is what it takes... this query, when run against the (2008 version) version control database in TFS will give you a nice summary and detail pair that can be dropped into excel, or Read More...

Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 9:40 AM by willeke | 0 Comments