Powershell to help plot graphs of how long TFS upgrades take

When doing TFS upgrades it is useful to know roughly how long they will take. The upgrade programs give a number of steps, but not all steps are equal. Some are quick, some are slow. I have found it useful to graph past updates so I can get a feel of how long an update will take given it got to ‘step x in y minutes’. You can do this by hand, noting down time as specific steps are reached....

September 17, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Session accepted for DDDNorth

Pleased to say my session on SonarQube has been accepted for DDDNorth. And it seems that registration has opened and closed today, there is a wait list up now Good to see the DDD events still popular after 10 long years

September 14, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Is the Microsoft Band any good for Triathlon? Training Yes, racing No

The title says it all, I have been using a Microsoft Band for a few months now and have found it a great tool for running and cycling as long as you are going out for less than about 5 hours. I tried to use for the first time Triathlon race at at the Leeds Triathlon over the weekend. As it it not water proof it was not an option for the swim (unlike my old Polar HR monitor), so I put it on in T1 (swim to bike), don’t think it wasted too much time!...

September 14, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Running Typemock Isolator based tests in TFS vNext build

Updated 22 Mar 2016 This task is available in the VSTS Marketplace) Typemock Isolator provides a way to ‘mock the un-mockable’, such as sealed private classes in .NET, so can be a invaluable tool in unit testing. To allow this mocking Isolator interception has to be started before any unit tests are run and stopped when completed. For a developer this is done automatically within the Visual Studio IDE, but on build systems you have to run something to do this as part of your build process....

September 8, 2015 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open

Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open - http://bit.ly/DDDNorth15Sessions Vote on what you would like to see at this community conference

September 7, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell