I thought I would make a list of the Podcasts I like:
Technical:
DotNetRocks!
HanselMinutes
Udi Dahan on SOA
BBC
From Our Own Correspondent
In Our Time
Music
Radio OhLaLA
Dave’s Lounge
“I just woke up and want something not too demanding for commute”
Moldawer in the Morning
A talk by Kevin Kline at Code Camp last weekend got me thinking about how I take care of my Team Foundation Server 2005.
He was not talking about TFS in any way, but he is an enterprise guy and he highlighted the value of backups. Apparently he runs a stored procedure before every backup to [...]
A developer just left, and inadvertently left some files checked out. I took a deep breath, since I feared I would have to track each one down and remove the lock by hand.
However, this post showed me that you can just delete the user’s complete workspace with one simple command:
http://blogs.msdn.com/mrod/archive/2007/01/08/undoing-a-checkout-that-belongs-to-another-user.aspx
Note: This is only if you [...]
Neat: Whilst browsing I found this project going on at IBM.
As a Microsoft orientated consultant, I found working with MQ messages in .NET a real pain. (Finding the right .NET drivers were quite a task.)
If I can (eventually) open a MQ channel as easially as MSMQ, then the ‘utopia’ of SOA will be a little closer [...]
Backing up Team Foundation Server is easy.. just schedule a full database backup every night and keep the Reporting Services key safe.
Restoring Team Foundation Server is very hard. Well, I would want to restore because hypothetically my main server machine has died. Hence a move to another Hardware Configuration.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms404869(VS.80).aspx
The short story is lots and lots [...]
