Tag: microsoft

CodePlex subverts our desires

November 6, 2007 I am really behind the curve on this but I was very excited when I heard that CodePlex is now supporting Subversion for source code control. After reading more closely it appears that they are merely providing bridgeware that allows you to use TortoiseSVN as a front end to CodePlex's Team Foundation Server. The number one new feature request from users is for CodePlex to support Subversion. Specifically what users are telling us they want is the features and experience they get when using TortoiseSVN as a source control client. It is important to us on the CodePlex team to provide our users the features they want and need to have the best experience possible, and so we will soon be offering support for using TortoiseSVN with CodePlex. How did their users' desire to have CodePlex add support for Subversion…

MVC Code Crush

October 10, 2007 It feels a little warmer over here sitting around the Microsoft developer Alt.campfire. Microsoft just came on out and publicly embraced the MVC pattern for web development (think Rails). Nestled gently inside of Asp.Net they have planted a nucleus of testable, extensible, and separation of concern compliant goodness. I can’t wait to watch it grow and mature. While watching Scott Gu present their MVC on Asp.Net Framework (can we get a cooler codename please?) at the Alt.Net conference I felt very strange. I felt that suddenly Microsoft gets me. At the time it would have seemed pretty normal to have Scott Gu break into song with smiling woodland animals surrounding him nodding to the beat. I think they slipped stuff into the coffee. They pretty much nailed everything I love about Rails and MonoRail and .Net under one umbrella. Lets…

Virtual Server oh how I hate your un-patched bugs

June 27, 2007 We are using Virtual Server 2005 R2 a lot in our database platform testing. We have automated tests that start up virtual machines to do database platform testing. Quite handy. Configuring Virtual Server on an new machine can be quite a pain. We run into a problem all the time where we are trying to create a virtual machine with a name that was once already used for that particular Virtual Server host. You get this dreaded message: The virtual machine could not be created. The virtual machine configuration could not be created. A configuration with this name already exists. What? No it doesn't. I had removed this virtual machine in the past. What is going on. Microsoft has this lovely KB which tells you how to half fix the problem which basically boils down to: C:Documents and Settings>del [virtual-machine-name]*.* /s…

DevTeach 2007 Begins

May 16, 2007 I am a lucky nerd. I work at a great company that believes in continual personal development and investing in their employees. Dovetail sent me to DevTeach and I am having a blast. The quality of the talks and general braininess quotient is very high. Excellent conversations in a lovely city. I got here Sunday night and Scott was kind enough to introduce me to little known Canadian traditions and playing tour guide around Old Montreal. This city is amazing and beautiful and vibrant and invokes wonder. Pre Conference I attended the Monday Pre-Conference workshop(s). I actually sat in on both Design and Optimization Best-Practices with SQL Server 2005 and Introduction to .NET 3.0 workshop both speakers were good and knowledgeable. In hind-sight it would have been better for me to have stuck with the SQL content. Nothing against Kevin McNeish's .Net chops, but I had been exposed to…

Monorail Introduced

May 7, 2007 The deed is done. My Code Camp talk is over. It was a great experience working on my public speaking and polishing my understanding of Monorail. My talk had 2 parts. An introduction, that needs a lot of polish, and a coding exercise where I go from an empty project to a working example complete with activerecord data model. A lot of great questions were asked. All in all it really jazzed me to have the opportunity to get the word out about the great work being done on this project and to see so many people get excited about possibilities that Monorail brings to web applications development on the .Net platform. Getting comfortable with Monorail As I promised during my talk here is a yummy collection of links to get you going. First off some introductory material to get you excited about Monorail: Colin Ramsay's has a…

Ruby Imports Agility Into Microsoft

May 1, 2007 As more details are flowing out of Mix07, the .Net world is a-buzz with dreams of Ruby On Rails and the dynamic goodness that can be hosted on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). I too am excited but for another reason entirely. Microsoft is showing signs of finally doing an Agile process right. include 'Agility' John Lam and the DLR team after exiting their quiet period have announced iterative code releases. From John's - Introducing IronRuby post: Finally, I apologize for being silent about what we've been doing in this space. But this is now full disclosure - so we will be working with the community in a fully open fashion from this point onwards. IronPython has a 3 week release cycle with a live repository (you'll be able to get changes the moment we check them in), and we're going to try…

Entity Framework Designer Will Not Be In Orcas RTM

April 23, 2007 We just got confirmation today from the ADO.Net team over at Microsoft that the EDM Designer will not be in the Orcas RTM bits. Had I been more diligent in reading their blog posts I would have noticed this earlier: EDM Wizard and Designer Featured in VSLive! San Francisco Keynote - Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:42 PM by dpblogs These videos provide some great information and a preview of the new EDM Wizard coming in Orcas, as well as a sneak preview of a new EDM Designer that we can expect to see released after the upcoming Orcas release. There it is sitting there in bold print way back a month ago and I missed it. This is bad news as most of our reason for using EF was related to the designer being there for our customers. It seems that at Orcas RTM the only…

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