January 2005 - Posts

• We are Everywhere! Fear Us!

  You will be assimilated. We are everywhere and you can not escape us. If you are in the *nix world, this one will get you. If you think you can get away with ‘it’, this one has the evidence. This one will get you here or on the other side. Read More... Posted Monday, January 31, 2005 11:02 PM by pmurphy | 1 Comments

• String encodings on the web

  Durgaprasad Gorti, a System.Net guy, wrote his first blog on the inclusion of WebClient.DownloadString() here . While working with RSS the other day I went through this issue of trying to figure out exactly what type of encoding an xml feed was being Read More... Posted Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:59 PM by pmurphy | 4 Comments

• Looks like I did something right for a change. ;)

  I did my read of the msdn blogs feed today and noticed that I won the big of the week contest. I'll be sure to let you know what the 'goodie vault' sends my way. http://weblogs.asp.net/productfeedback/archive/2005/01/28/362821.aspx If you don't know about Read More... Posted Friday, January 28, 2005 6:55 PM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Team System Domain Structure Question

  I got a question last night off my blog that seemed pretty interesting. Here it is. Looks like the Dec. CTP works in a Win2k AD (I missed that requirement when first installing). The issue I’m having is about installing in a multi-domain environment. Read More... Posted Friday, January 28, 2005 12:22 PM by pmurphy | 1 Comments

• WaitHandle.WaitOne overloaded for exitContext?

  I recieved the following question from a list that I'm on the other day. Can anyone explain the implications of setting exitContect to true or false when making an async call to a web service and then calling WaitOne on the IAsyncResult object? IAsyncResult Read More... Posted Friday, January 28, 2005 8:01 AM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Team System (December CTP) Extensibility Kit Released

  You can get it here from MS Downloads. From Brian Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:59 PM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Mama-Omea!

  On some of the aspadvice lists the other day a question came up about NNTP readers. One of the suggestions was a new product called 'Omea' from JetBrains. If you don't know about Resharper the JetBrains flagship in the .net arena, then you are truly missing Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:48 PM by pmurphy | 5 Comments

• Team System (December CTP) Support Requests

  I'm getting about 2-3 requests per week for direct support on team system setup issues. At first I was comfortable with this, but as I get more of it I can't help but feel taken advantage of. It's pretty clear most people want me to 'fix it' for them Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:42 AM by pmurphy | 2 Comments

• The Black Hole

  I've fallen into a black hole until beta2 ships. Everything that I'm hearing tells me that beta2 is still targeted for sometime in February and it's currently the middle of January. I've installed the most current bits publically available into my little Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:10 PM by pmurphy | 2 Comments

• Another Amatuer DJ

  http://weblogs.asp.net/jeremycollins/archive/2005/01/07/349040.aspx I stumbled onto Jeremy while reading the feeds from asp.net so I figured I’d introduce myself. I too am something on a DJ (I’ve been paid to spin twice, does that make a professional?). Read More... Posted Saturday, January 08, 2005 4:39 PM by pmurphy | 3 Comments

• selling the vision

  I found a reply on my blog today from Jack Greenfield . You surfed my way just to tell me your fruit was the real one . hehe. I love it. What’s even more amazing to me is that Booch is someone that I read, not make an effort to debate. So to even Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:20 PM by pmurphy | 0 Comments

• Team System December CTP -- IV [Comments]

  I've gotten a good about of inbound linking from my three prior posts on Team System so I figured that since the holiday is over I needed to respond. http://blogs.msdn.com/johnlawr/archive/0001/01/01/332625.aspx http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2004/12/27/12407.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:57 PM by pmurphy | 2 Comments