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Friday, June 06, 2008 3:10 PM

Team City Continuous Integration Build Server and VS.NET VCS Integration

Starting a new project always requires a certain amount of setup, one of the primary goals of any development group these days should be continuous integration.  This is something that is not expensive or time consuming to setup.  Recently for
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:00 PM

Mount ISO Image in XP, Vista, or Server OS

I came upon the need to mount an ISO image to the local OS, often I've done this on a running VM image, but that is built in.  On the native Microsoft OS there really isn't a setup to do this. To the rescue comes Magic ISO Maker.  I first noticed
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:02 AM

InfoQ and Agile Leading the Curve

I listened to the The Value of Agile Leadership to the Enterprise while working on getting prepared for some meetings this morning and checking e-mail.  Excellent speaking engagement with a lot of top notch guys;  Bud Phillips (Capital One Financial),
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:24 AM

BIDS Helper, "I Found My MDX!"

I was complaining recently about getting MDX a week or so ago.  I wanted MDX generated from my Cube in BIDS.  Well I found a kick butt tool that helps one do that.  Not only does it help with getting the MDX, but it also provides printer friendly dimension
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:03 PM

BI/OLAP Training Day #1

Yesterday I attended Maxamine Training as part of my initiation at WebTrends.  Maxamine is a web site scanner for finding tags, JavaScript, and other assorted objects within a web application/site.  The application tool and software is a client application
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:35 PM

My Personal Toolkit - A Minor Update and Upgrade

As anyone in the software industry knows, especially those that use the latest and greatest, having an up to date and powerful toolkit is vital for the job.  Without a good personal toolkit a developer can be rendered almost useless or at least lost
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:06 AM

More Tools! (That I forgot in the other post.)

Recently I made a post about tools you just have to use (at least after you've used them just once!).  Well there where a few that I had neglected to mention and a few I just stumbled back upon after realizing I had not installed them
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 10:18 PM

SCSF - Smart Client Software Factory - May 2007

So I just realized the latest SCSF has been released.  This is a software package that we've been using for the entire project that I've been on for almost a year now.  The SCSF has saved us tons of time, even though it is somewhat cumbersome
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Sunday, May 27, 2007 2:23 PM

Search and Navigation Improvements on MSDN

Anyone using Visual Studio .NET reading the start page would know about this, but I thought it neeed a dedicated post. Microsoft has completely redesigned the navigation and search of MSDN.  I personally dig the new design, it isn't as convoluted
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Friday, May 25, 2007 12:44 AM

AJAX List Application

As I sat down on the bus and hit the web via my Sprint PCS Wireless card I thought, "I really need a dedicated to do or task list application that I could deploy to my domain or somewhere on the web to maintain things with."  Being that I'm a developer
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Monday, May 21, 2007 5:10 PM

Development Tools... the ongoing quest of great developers!

Great development tools are always sought out by great developers.  One tool I found recently has kicked me off to start a list of my own cool tools that help me produce great software.  This first tool is ReSharper by Jetbrains software. 
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:20 PM

Fun Adobe Reader Installation Error

"The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. Free up space on the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder." This is dumb... but, Adobe Acrobat is designed to install with UAC enabled and will fail if it is
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Saturday, April 28, 2007 7:11 PM

Paste for Community Server

I've tried many things, including the Visual Studio to Word to Microsoft Live Writer to sometimes editing the blasted HTML myself to get a good code paste for my blog.  Now that Z has created a tool to do this for me, I'm rather euphoric!  Check
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:07 AM

aspnet_regiis.exe

The aspnet_regiis.exe tool is very valuable.  I often can't remember where it is, thus I've attached this link to all sorts of info on the executable.  Anyone that does web development either knows exactly where this file is or has at least
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:15 PM

How To Setup IIS for Local Development on Vista

This entry is going to entail the following.  Links to other entries that revolve around what I am doing to get up and running on a Windows Vista machine to develop against IIS 7.0.  So far it's been a pain in the ass.  I'm almost there,
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