Category: Blog
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Source Control Comparison: Subversion vs TFS vs Mercurial vs Git
Discuss “the best” Source Control and you will get differing opinions and a good punch-up lively debate. Considering the value of the source code to an organisation, it is something that should be taken seriously and the rather consultese answer regarding “the best” is “it depends”… anybody who has lost sleep over Visual SourceSafe corruption…
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SharePoint 2010 "The language of this installation package is not supported by your system"
Installing SharePoint 2010 on a x64 Vista or Windows 7 workstation is great, if you read the instructions properly… Following the instructions works. No need to re-gurgitate… however this little supposed “unsupported language” problem cropped up… well I should really have RTFM To extract the files from the .exe, actually use the extract switch as…
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SharePoint 2010 Foundation Business Connectivity Services
SharePoint 2010 Foundation Business Connectivity Services The new SharePoint WSS (SharePoint 2010 Foundation) includes the new version of the Business Data Catalog, Business Connectivity Services! Previously BDC functionality was only available to MOSS 2007 Enterprise customers so this may open up lots of opportunities!
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Windows Server AppFabric
Windows Server AppFabric Building and deploying applications more easily on IIS using AppFabric
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VS2010 Instrumentation and Profiling
VS2010 Instrumentation and Profiling VS2010 profiling now includes SQL queries executed! Nice! You can also integrate data from remote machines running the load agent.
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TFS 2010 Gated Check-In
TFS 2010 Gated Check-In You can test your build without checking in
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TFS 2010 licensing model
TFS 2010 licensing model MSDN premium subscribers get TFS 2010 (and not the workgroup 5 user edition!)
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3 months free Sky Sports for UK iPhone on O2
3 months free Sky Sports for UK iPhone on O2 Wonder if I can setup a proxy to watch football when I’m in LA at PDC…