One of the projects I’m working on for my company, Strategic Data Systems, is our internal Team Foundation Server 2008 solution. I’m working with some of the guys who head up our Agile Development Center to make sure things fit well with what they are doing. It’s been difficult to find overlapping free time, so [...]
Archive for August, 2008
People give Microsoft Outlook a lot of crap, but if you’re willing to think outside the box, you’ll realize they did all the little things that make life easy. For instance, I rarely use the calendar popup for creating new appointments. No, if I have a meeting next Wednesday, I type “next wed” and hit [...]
Someone was looking to do quick-and-dirty validation of an Xml document inside a SQL Server procedure today. I assumed, and regretted, that he meant 2005, which would have looked like this: declare @xml1 xml declare @xml2 xml set @xml1 = ‘<Node1><Node2 attrib=”This is it.” /></Node1>’set @xml2 = ‘<Node1><Node2 /></Node1>’select Col.value(‘count(./@attrib)’, ‘int’) as countfrom @xml1.nodes(‘Node1/Node2′) as [...]
Installation Guides
Aug 6
This evening I completed my first split-server (or dual server as it’s called in the guide) installation of Team Foundation Server 2008. I’ve installed TFS a few times now in single-server mode which is pretty crazy easy when you consider what you get (way more than SVN or CVS by themselves). Throughout the entire process [...]
Today I blew up a server. Couldn’t figure something out so I pushed every button I could find, flipped every switch and changed every setting. Nothing. So you know what I did, I deleted it, copied over a new Sysprepped Hard Drive and had a clean slate in about 5 minutes. I figured out my [...]