Over the weekend I had the time to work with Teamprise Explorer and Visual Studio Team Explorer while working on an open source project that I’m a part of. This was the first time I’ve worked with Teamprise explorer and Visual Studio Team Explorer. Since Codeplex houses its source on Team Foundation Server (TFS) I was required to use one of these options. This is a little look into my experience. First off let me start by saying that I’m a Subversion junkie. I keep all of my own personal source code in Subversion and I’ve helped many clients implement...
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UPDATE: I added the publications I also read at the bottom. I’ve been asked what blogs I read, podcasts I listen to and screencasts I watch. So here’s a comprehensive list for ya’ll. Blogs (in no particular order) Scott Hanselman Jeff Atwood Martin Fowler Jeremy D. Miller K. Scott Allen Mads Kristensen Sahil Malik Roy Osherove Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo Bil Simser Dino Esposito Then at times I’ll browse the MSDN Blogs. Also note, these are what I call my “essential” blogs. I read these daily. I have about 30 other blogs that I read if I have time....
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A new version of Notepad++ came out last week. I just got around to installing it and there are a few new features such as the enhancements made to the search/replace function. You can now search/replace through many different files through an improved interface and also search recursively. There were some changes made to fix some bugs and a cool new feature that transforms all links that are typed into N++ to clickable links. One of my favorite new features is the NppExec that allows you to run your own preconfigured scripts from within N++. Pretty cool. I wonder if you...
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I’ve been on the hunt for a good .NET wiki that was open source and I think I’ve finally found one. The folks over at ScrewTurn Software have developed ScrewTurn Wiki. Its GPL’d, built on .NET 2.0, does not require SQL Server 2005, works in a medium trust enviroment (that means that you hosted types can use it!) and has many other features which are listed here. The only two things that you’ll need are: IIS5 (or better) with .NET 2.0 installed. One write enabled directory in the root of the wiki   If you need to see it in action, check out the .NET Tiers...
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