The video recording of Martin Woodward's two sessions at Tech-Ed, NA 2011, Team Foundation Server for Everyone & The Accidental Team Foundation Server Admin provide an overview of TFS 2010 in about 2 hours. Some notes -TFS installation choices - Basic, AdvancedTFS Basic Wizard - most compact TFS installation possible, provides only Source Control, WorkItem Tracking & Build services; can even work with SQL Server ExpressNo requirement for Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server Reporting ServicesSupports client installations...
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Saturday, 18 June 2011
To highlight its achievements in the 100 years of its existence, IBM has released a full-page ad in some Indian newspapers & a dedicated site for IBM's 100 Icons of Progress. A few interesting facts & trivia from that list of accomplishments -IBM programmer John Backus and his team produced the first high-level language, FORTRAN (for FORmula TRANslating System) in 1957.Contributed to the rise of the Internet by designing...
Steve Evans' presentation "Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 for Developers" at Tech-Ed, NA 2011, had some interesting IIS tips & tricks. I transcribed some of them from the more than hour-long video recording on Channel9 -- Developers have Swiss cheese knowledge – they know a lot but there are holes in what they are familiar with.Certificates- Certificate Authority (CA) creates a cert for a specific site & date range, the OS trusts it.- Client connects to server, pulls down cert & check for 3 things -* Certificate creator...
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Programming with new Microsoft products & technologies does not have to cost anything. Besides offering time-limited (trial editions) or feature-limited (Express editions) versions of its products, MS also makes available VHDs of some of its popular products. Here is a list of such VHDs that I've come across (work in progress) -IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010Visual Studio 2010 Lab ManagementOffice 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project Server 2010Windows Server 2008The downside is that...
Monday, 13 June 2011
Google organizes "the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful" but info about some of its own products may be a little difficult to find. If there was a reference to Driving Directions gadget & the Static Maps wizard on the Google Maps API Family page, they could be easily discovered. As these useful utilities exist on orphaned pages and are hard to find, many developers may go on to create their own components.The Google Driving Directions gadget is a nifty utility that organizations can configure for their...
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Stoyan Stefanov, a web performance expert, Facebook engineer, ex-Yahoo, smush.it creator & YSlow 2.0 architect, has released the draft of Book of Speed for free & public access. Currently 5 of the planned 9 chapters are online.In his blog post announcing the release, he also mentions another free, online JavaScript resource by Marijn Haverbeke - Eloquent JavaScript.&nb...
Chrome uses a installer that you have to first get which then downloads the latest stable version of the browser. If you have to install Chrome on several machines, you can grab the offline installer. That way, you don't even need internet connectivity for each install.I found this helpful tip on the official Chrome For...
Saturday, 4 June 2011
I recently needed to copy Contacts from a LG-Reliance CDMA Mobile handset to a GSM smartphone. After a bit of monkeying around with the available options, I found that you can copy Contacts to the CDMA SIM.I inserted the CDMA SIM into the GSM smartphone and could successfully copy the Contact details to the smartphone....
Friday, 3 June 2011
List compiled from Lucene wiki's link database & references in various online articles -AppleDisneyIBMLinkedInWolfram Research, Inc. - Wolfram Research uses Lucene for internal tools, the Demonstrations project, the Mathematica documentation search and site searching.PluralsightStackOverflow(work in progress)Also see: Large sites that run on ASP....
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