Finally, this is the postit note i wanted for my eFlea. Just need some time to implement it now.
http://notes.mastervb.net/
30 January 2008
29 January 2008
DOS - output error to log file
When you send the output of a DOS command to a text file it doesnt normally put any error messages there as well. The following method does.
e.g.
copy f1 f2 > log.txt 2>&1
e.g.
copy f1 f2 > log.txt 2>&1
Exchange 2000 and the first 2003 DC in 2000 domain - Petri.co.il forums by Daniel Petri
Something im working on right now, i was googling for answers, this is kinda funny, limited english and references to girlfriends, flower on his hands etc.. response to questions is well done..
Super Secret SSO Organization: Inside the SSO: Brought to you by Intel(R)
I should watch this if i get time...
25 January 2008
Accept Credit Card, Accept Credit Cards - PayPal
Aaah, let the money roll in.. the beauty of paypal.. Note to self: add donate now button ...
23 January 2008
22 January 2008
18 January 2008
International Human Capital Consulting - PSI
Nothing special, just an interesting design of the website... i like the little graphics.
17 January 2008
Freeware for web page checking, link popularity checking, PageRank and traffic rank checking software - Nesox Link Checker
Annoying snow? or 'Cool' effect!
16 January 2008
Roleystone-Courier
The Roleystone Courier, local community newpaper and home to ads for the eFlea on Roley
15 January 2008
InfoWorld launches drive to save Windows XP | InfoWorld | News | January 14, 2008 | By InfoWorld Editors
Save XP ! i agree, the last think i want is VISTA, im finally comfortable with XP, it does everything i need. THe new 'features' of Visa are not worth the upgrade hassle.
14 January 2008
From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year - New York Times
I thought is was writing this article? Well, my own version of this scenario will be up soon. I think it is a very good strategy, if a company can run itself without the interference of people, then it probably stands a better chance of success.
[Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News - We make technology sexy
Wow, geeks are not sexy, but they do know how to put a sexy banner pic on their websites!!! This website might even have some useful coontent, i dont know, cant get past the home page.
10 January 2008
Fancast - Fancast: Find and watch TV Shows, Movies, Videos, Celebrity News, and Gossip
Just following up on my post about Free online streaming HD TV.
Read all about it!
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Heres the great thing about the internet, you can find yourself anywhere, and if not, well, make it up!!!
Heres the great thing about the internet, you can find yourself anywhere, and if not, well, make it up!!!
09 January 2008
Hack Attack: Six Ways to Catch Your Favorite TV Shows
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing
Streaming TV shows, finally... but theres a catch see below for some fixes..
http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/01/howto-watch-abc-tv-streams-outside-the-usa/
Streaming TV shows, finally... but theres a catch see below for some fixes..
http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/01/howto-watch-abc-tv-streams-outside-the-usa/
07 January 2008
Araluen Botanic Park
"PERTH CHILLI FESTIVAL
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 March 10am - 5pm both days
A celebration of everything chilli from fresh foods, pickles, chutneys, olives, cheese, chocolate, wine, beers and many more. Enjoy live entertainment, demonstrations and free tastings."
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 March 10am - 5pm both days
A celebration of everything chilli from fresh foods, pickles, chutneys, olives, cheese, chocolate, wine, beers and many more. Enjoy live entertainment, demonstrations and free tastings."
04 January 2008
A Developer's Life: April 2007
Answering: "When will bug 'xyz' be ready for testing?"
Have you ever been asked any of the following questions regarding work items: Is bug #123 ready for testing yet?, or When will I be able to test bug #456?, or What bugs are in the pipeline that will be ready for testing next?
If you're like me, you've probably answered the above questions at some point in the past something like: "Sure, it's been ready for testing for two days.", or "Bug #456 will be ready for testing after the next nightly build.", or "I don't know what bugs will be coming next, let me run some queries and get back to you."
Now, I'm a huge fan of Team Foundation Server but I hadn't stopped to take the time to put together a couple of relatively simple queries that would not only save myself and my fellow co-workers some time, but also make everyone's job just a little bit easier. Before I detail the two queries that eliminated the above questions, here's some details on our environments and automated builds.
Currently, we develop projects and push them through four environmental stages:
Development: this is where all developers work on a daily basis - more-or-less isolated from the rest of the world. System Test: this is the environment that our testers perform their daily testing. Integrated Test ("Staging"): this is where we test out the integration points among multiple applications. Production: of course this is the environment in which our daily business runs.Now, for each of our Team Foundation Server projects, we have three standard build types:
Continuous Integration Build: this build type is automatically executed with each check in and deploys any binaries, files, etc. into the Development environment. System Test Build: this build type is executed nightly on a scheduled basis. All binaries, files, etc. are deployed to the System Test environment where our QA/Testers can "work it over" the following day. Integrated Test Build: this build type merely stages the various binaries, files, etc. to be pushed by the Integrated Test environment via CM processes.So, back to the original goal of eliminating the original questions above. To do this, I created two queries named:
Work Items Staged for Testing - this query, when ran, returns a list of all work items (e.g. Bugs) that have a State of "Resolved" and an "Integration Integration Build" (displayed as "Resolved in build" on the Work Item's Details tab) beginning with the text "Continuous Build" (the name of our CI build type). So, basically, this returns a list of all Work Items that have been associated with a changeset that has gone through the CI process, which means it has been deployed to the development environment and will be deployed to the System Test environment after the next nightly build.
Work Items Ready for Testing - this query, when ran, returns a list of all work items that have a State of "Resolved" and an "Integration Build" that does not begin with "Continuous Integration Build" and is also not empty. I do not specifically check for a "System Test Build" in this query because I am assuming that any build type other than the CI build deploys the changes into an environment from which they can be tested.With the recent acquisition of TeamPlain by Microsoft, we have deployed the TFS portal within our project teams giving our testers a nice web-based interface into TFS. Now, when they are curious about the state of existing work items, they can run the queries detailed above and get their answers immediately.
One caveat to all of this, if you decide to implement similar queries then you must ensure that your developers associate work items with their changesets when checking in source code (or other files).
Also, your build types must have the element in your build scripts set to "true". This setting is what causes the "Integration Build" value to be updated to the latest build number associated with the work item.
Without the integration of TFS & Visual Studio, these types of queries would be a lot more difficult (if even possible) to build.
Have you ever been asked any of the following questions regarding work items: Is bug #123 ready for testing yet?, or When will I be able to test bug #456?, or What bugs are in the pipeline that will be ready for testing next?
If you're like me, you've probably answered the above questions at some point in the past something like: "Sure, it's been ready for testing for two days.", or "Bug #456 will be ready for testing after the next nightly build.", or "I don't know what bugs will be coming next, let me run some queries and get back to you."
Now, I'm a huge fan of Team Foundation Server but I hadn't stopped to take the time to put together a couple of relatively simple queries that would not only save myself and my fellow co-workers some time, but also make everyone's job just a little bit easier. Before I detail the two queries that eliminated the above questions, here's some details on our environments and automated builds.
Currently, we develop projects and push them through four environmental stages:
Development: this is where all developers work on a daily basis - more-or-less isolated from the rest of the world. System Test: this is the environment that our testers perform their daily testing. Integrated Test ("Staging"): this is where we test out the integration points among multiple applications. Production: of course this is the environment in which our daily business runs.Now, for each of our Team Foundation Server projects, we have three standard build types:
Continuous Integration Build: this build type is automatically executed with each check in and deploys any binaries, files, etc. into the Development environment. System Test Build: this build type is executed nightly on a scheduled basis. All binaries, files, etc. are deployed to the System Test environment where our QA/Testers can "work it over" the following day. Integrated Test Build: this build type merely stages the various binaries, files, etc. to be pushed by the Integrated Test environment via CM processes.So, back to the original goal of eliminating the original questions above. To do this, I created two queries named:
Work Items Staged for Testing - this query, when ran, returns a list of all work items (e.g. Bugs) that have a State of "Resolved" and an "Integration Integration Build" (displayed as "Resolved in build" on the Work Item's Details tab) beginning with the text "Continuous Build" (the name of our CI build type). So, basically, this returns a list of all Work Items that have been associated with a changeset that has gone through the CI process, which means it has been deployed to the development environment and will be deployed to the System Test environment after the next nightly build.
Work Items Ready for Testing - this query, when ran, returns a list of all work items that have a State of "Resolved" and an "Integration Build" that does not begin with "Continuous Integration Build" and is also not empty. I do not specifically check for a "System Test Build" in this query because I am assuming that any build type other than the CI build deploys the changes into an environment from which they can be tested.With the recent acquisition of TeamPlain by Microsoft, we have deployed the TFS portal within our project teams giving our testers a nice web-based interface into TFS. Now, when they are curious about the state of existing work items, they can run the queries detailed above and get their answers immediately.
One caveat to all of this, if you decide to implement similar queries then you must ensure that your developers associate work items with their changesets when checking in source code (or other files).
Also, your build types must have the
Without the integration of TFS & Visual Studio, these types of queries would be a lot more difficult (if even possible) to build.
03 January 2008
Cached Credentials - How to clear
Well, ive come across this a dozen times before, but heres the answer once and for all. It happens when you browse to a share as a different user, then you try to access that share as a different user it gives you the old error about being logged on as someone else.
Anyway, heres the fix.
Anyway, heres the fix.
SQL to Sourcesafe Scripter v2.0 (SQLScripter, Schema Scripter)
This is not bad, im not sure if it could work or not, generally you want to associate a DB change with a checkin, bug, release etc.
Just having bulk schema checkins like this could be a problem, but if it was integrated to VS2005 IDE there might be better control.
Just having bulk schema checkins like this could be a problem, but if it was integrated to VS2005 IDE there might be better control.
Your Freeware and Shareware Download Destination! : BlueChillies.com
Your Freeware and Shareware Download Destination! : BlueChillies.com
Dont i get around!! Something new for today, in my travels looking for ways to put SQL into source control and make a nice change release process i bumped into this site. I know there are ehaps of these around, but i like chillies(never tried blue ones), the layout was good, and they had nice categories for the software. Ill be back...
Dont i get around!! Something new for today, in my travels looking for ways to put SQL into source control and make a nice change release process i bumped into this site. I know there are ehaps of these around, but i like chillies(never tried blue ones), the layout was good, and they had nice categories for the software. Ill be back...
02 January 2008
The Cranky Product Manager: Who is the Cranky Product Manager?
The Cranky Product Manager: Who is the Cranky Product Manager?
Hilarious, i must take time sometime to read this a bit more, but a little i read so far looked pretty spot on!!
Hilarious, i must take time sometime to read this a bit more, but a little i read so far looked pretty spot on!!
PC World - The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
PC World - The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Now heres a list worth looking at, sometimes with all the noise on the net, its good to just get a nice simple list like this. Somegreat products on here, some i never knew of, somethings about some things i did knew about, and other things about which i didnt know something about.
Now theres something!
Now heres a list worth looking at, sometimes with all the noise on the net, its good to just get a nice simple list like this. Somegreat products on here, some i never knew of, somethings about some things i did knew about, and other things about which i didnt know something about.
Now theres something!
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