New free tools to help manager or TFS based projects from Telerik

Telerik have just release a new work item manager and dashboard application for TFS, first impressions are very good. Why not download your copy and have a look?

September 9, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Your support can keep our industry's history alive

We had a company outing at the weekend to Bletchley Park for their Annual Enigma Reunion event. A great chance to see the place where Enigma was cracked and some of the equipment they used to do it, such as the working rebuild of a Turing Bombe Whilst down there we also took the chance to have a good look around the National Museum of Computing, which shares the site; you know are are getting old when a third of a museum is devoted to equipment you have worked on!...

September 7, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September’s Agile Yorkshire meeting

This Wednesday is the night for the regular Agile Yorkshire meeting, It was meant to be on Pex but the speaker has had to cancel (but you can see a video he did on the subject at DDD online). So in Ben’s place we are doing some Grok Talks, short ad hoc open mike talks. It should make for lively discussions, and is that not the key purpose of any user group?...

September 7, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF250020 error creating new Team Projects

Whilst working on our TFS2010 Beta 1 test server today I got the following error when I tried to create a new team project TF250020: The following SharePoint Web application is not valid: http://vs2010.mydomain.com. Verify that you have the correct URL. I thought this strange, as I was doing nothing I had not done before, creating a MSF Agile team project with default settings. What I did notice was that in the new project wizard I had the server URL as http://vs2010 but the error message said http://vs2010....

September 2, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

And another nice feature for Windows 7

Homegroup certainly make home networking easier, especially when the PC is part of a domain as well, it just works. No more fiddling with rights between home accounts and domain users.

August 31, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell