Lukas Svoboda: Strategy, Architecture, Governance & Technology

Mai-lan's Visio Blog on MSDN blogs has an excellent stencil for basic web service design including the famous "Microsoft" Web Services icon. I use it a lot personally in my diagrams as an image and it's good to finally find it as a vector based visio icon. Find it on this blog post

I've been playing around with a couple of vista versions on my dual opteron and have am now needing to figure out how to edit the new boot loader in Vista. This link on Wikipedia is a good explaination of what's going in the new Vista Bootloader. Very useful reference so I thought I would share it!

Article by Mary J Foley on what makes Google tick (She is a well known MS commentator, so there is plenty of contrast againest Microsoft).

One of the fourm replies, which is just hilarious!!! 

A good overview from MSDN focused particularly on the differneces between TFS Source Control and Visual Source Safe. Click here for the article

 

Now, this is a dosy, but TFS allows you to check-in code without appropriate comments. If someone overrides policy you at least want some audit trail. i.e. force checkin comments! The following blog post on the Vertigo Software Team System blog allows you to force comments at check-in. Very useful, we have implemented in Team System at Optimation.

If you ever setup Team Explorer on a new installation of Visual Studio 2005 and then go to your source control within Team Foundation Server and get a popup menu containing one entry saying "No Commands Available", the following post on Grant Holiday's blog will help you out. I had this today and it was a simple as setting the default source control plugin to be Visual Studio Team System in Visual Studio options. A simple but inobvious answer...

Just found out today that the iMate SP6 does indeed support HSDPA which is fantastic news. Not that Vodafone NZ is trumpeting it yet, but HSDPA is supposed to now be the fastest mobile network in NZ. It will be great to get > 1 Meg a second data connections to a mobile phone!