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Out of immense respect for Richard, I have refrained from commenting on the bizarre rantings of Richard Grimes' final column. Well, now Scott has and I agree: Stop Complaining. I want to say that I knew Richard personally at one time and I have had nothing but the utmost respect for him. His classic books on COM, DCOM, and then  Managed...

So the problem of one week ago with TFS in VPCs was really bothering me. I was starting to devise a clever post on the Top Ten Things to Do When TFS is Creating Your TFS Project but decided instead to go buy another 1GB of memory for my Toshiba Satellite P25-S609. The kicker is that although it takes up to 2 GB of memory, it has only two slots,...

Of course, TFS and VSTS haven't even hit Beta 2 yet so there is no reason to even talk about performance in relation to them. The performance I am talking about is in trying to run the two VPC VMs on top of Win2K3. It's slow as a dog - almost unusable. The major reasons: I just don't have enough virtual memory allocated. I really need 2 GB. I...

This is more for myself. It's quite a year already with 3x more talks and conferences in the 1st 1/2 of 2005 than the whole year of 2004!!! 3/12 and 3/13 Code Camp III: The Madness; Microsoft Waltham MA. Four Sessions:  eXtreme .NET – Extreme Programming and Unit Testing for .NET Developers Part 1, II; Developing...

We have launched an electronic newsletter which you can view and subscribe to here. Notable in our first issue is our Chairman and CTO, John Landry, speaking about the The Next Wave: Leveraging Mobile Computing Power for Business Productivity. We truly believe we are experiencing yet another fundamental change in network technology with...

It's finally done! If I weren't so tired, I might throw a party or dance around the room. It really is too cool for words though to see the feature set though. For the record, I used Virtual PC with two VMs: One for the Data Tier/Domain Controller/AD and one for the Application Tier & Client. Both of them are running Win2K3 Enterprise,...

So it's really happening this time!! Bless Dave Bost who produced this kick-ass MSDN step-by-step guide. I have three Virtual PC images running for the three tiers over Win2K3 and I am installing Yukon on the data tier. I may finally experience the true power of VSTS end-to-end! What are you waiting for Rob? -)

That's right. Canada can't get enough of me because 2 days after cementing Toronto, I find that I will be one of many honored speakers this year at DevTeach in Montreal June 18-22. My sessions, along with all the others, are here. I'm really excited as so many of my good friends are on the list, it will be like a big party! Advanced COM...

So my good pal Kate Gregory, with much IM cajoling not only got me to leave the country (to speak at her group) but to switch my topic too-). Here is an event description. John, I'm finally headed to Toronto; let's get together!

So Brad Abrams got barbecue while down at the speaking to the Austin .NET User’s Group. Scott Bellware and group be advised: I expect the same treatment when I speak 4/11/05!! New news, is that I go on to the Texas A&M .NET Users Group the next night so maybe I can get barbecue twice like Brad did-)

I found when I installed Virtual Server and tried to get my TFS-APP application server instance to join my domain, that I missed a couple of steps in the AD Config: 14. Click OK to acknowledge the warning of having a dynamically assigned IP address for a DNS server. 15. If you have more than one network interface, select the 10.0.0.0 network...

As mentioned, I am going to the full VSTS/TFS for the first time. I mentioned that I had gotten the computer back up again, with Media Center 2005 instead of my Toshiba notebook's native XP Media Center (2004). Since then, I have made a lot of progress in between working this weekend and family stuff. I first got Win2K3 dual booted. Then I...

My good pal, and VSLive! C# Track Chair, Richard Hale Shaw has started blogging. I set up a conversation for him with Scott W and Rob Howard and he is already using their Community Server! I am moving my blog to that as soon as Scott W finishes his .TEXT conversion tool. Subscribed!

Having started in 1999, by the year 2002 I already felt old with the CLR/.NET. The exciting discovery phases were over by then. The dozen starting people of the DM CLR list had morphed intro thousands. Consequently, the year 2002, IMHO, saw the publication of the CLR/.NET books that defined the landscape and nothing really since then has really...