Alright it’s now obvious that this book is way more than a week’s read, and I find it hard to read straight through due to my need to go directly to the TFS parts in the back of the book for work. I do know now that it’s more valuable than I first thought using the third party tools such as Msbuildtasks and MSBuildExtensionPack. I don’t know when I will be able to completely finish the book with my current…
A Book Truly Worth Its Price.
Posted on May 16, 2009
If ones goal is to be a developer of worth it’s best to understand one will never know everything about anything. While searching for an answer to an ASPNETCompiler issue with TFS building a project I stumbled upon a link to this book Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi , William Bartholomew . It immediately grabbed my attention because it’s one of a small group of books that actually cover Team Foundation Server with MSBuild. It also…
IE8 is Now Available!
Posted on March 24, 2009First Thoughts: Even though IE8 has made improvements, after viewing the compatibility list it’s still not really ready for CSS 3. I believe we still are developing for IE6 and up so this may not be such a great benefit however I think it’s something to look into for future development. Microsoft Site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/dd433173.aspx IE8 Add-ons: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/bloggings/ …
TFS2008 Dual Tier Upgrade and Install
Posted on March 24, 2009Well I was finally able to complete an upgrade from TFS2005 Single tier install to a Dual Tier 2008 Upgrade within 27 hours. The best part was completing this on a new OS App Tier that would not allow updates throught Microsoft!!! Once I can recover from this weekend I will create a more detailed post on the process, but in short Microsoft did not include all the steps for this scenario. Number one issue is the Report Server permissions! Let…
My Windows Home Server Build
Posted on March 18, 2009Well I finally finished moving to a new home and purchased the remaining items for my WHS. I decided to blog about the install just in case someone out there is interested in building one for themselves or purchasing one from HP. I ordered the 120 day trial from Microsoft to give it one last run before purchasing the software. You really can’t beat the opportunity to actually try out a retail product from Microsoft for 120 days for FREE! Enough with…