David L's Blog

Just a quick update on the Eclipse Plug-in project that I posted about recently. I'm pleased to welcome to the team: Keith Rowe Martin Woodward Mitch Denny These guys are going to be awesome to have on board, and it shouldn't be too long now until we...

It all started with some scuttlebutt around the Linux camps (I'm hot news with them you know), "Hey have you heard, Lemphers finally came across". I shrugged it off as you can imagine, I mean I get hundreds of calls a day from reporters looking for bytes...

So Joe and I have been looking into the VSTS client API, and are starting to get a handle on the objects and calls required to interact with the source code control system, however, we are now trying to work out the best way to call the .NET assemblies...

Great site that has links to lots of great .NET languages. http://www.dotnetlanguages.net

About three years ago, I decided I wasn't happy with the kind of support Visual SourceSafe was giving me, so I sat down, and started writing my own source code control system from scratch. I downloaded all the relevant white papers and Ph.D thesis' available...

Just a few things before we all break for Easter: 1. Yesterday I went along to the Monash IT Society's Install Day 2005 . It was a great day, with lots of installs happening, both Windows and Linux, which was great. Big cheers to Tim, Shane, and the rest...

The other night I was out having dinner with my girlfriend at this really nice Thai restaurant, having a conversation about the unit testing framework available in VSTS. Well, you can imagine how insulted I was when the cook overheard us, and shouted...

With the anticipation of a small child or myself at Easter, I gleefully fired up the Beta 2 VPC's of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Well, didn't I receive a wonderful surprise! It's all shiny and new, just like my blog :) I've been interested to see...

Over the past few weeks, Joe and I have been bouncing around the idea of creating a set of plug-ins for Eclipse that would allow us to access some of the cool features of Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Well, the time has cometh! I have updated my blog...

Da da da dut da daa da....oh, sorry, just busy getting shizzy about me nice new blog look. I spent a good deal of time on the weekend making sure my online presence was very present. The key to changing one's .Text blog is all in the Custom CSS Selectors...

The life of a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft can be lonely sometimes, so the team in Melbourne have decided to do what we do best, buy some friends! The image above shows the advanced infrastructure that has been kindly supplied by my wonderful girlfriend...

Now I know alot of people have accused me of being boring and stodgy, "Oh yeah, Dave Lemphers, I know him, a real stuffed shirt" they say. Well, not today! Being an ex-student of St. Patrick's Primary School, Murrumbeena , I was introduced at an early...

I've been busy these last few months, having a sticky beak at a few J2 bits. Not for any particular reason, I just think there are some great Java technologies, such as Eclipse, JBoss, and JNote :) But this really blew me away...I was checking out the...

Just a quick one, I stumbled across this great blog tonight, and for anyone who needs a helping hand making heads or tails of blogging (what's the blogsphere!?), check out this site .

Jeez, Joe has been very busy on the VSTS front, and his blog is really showing it, he has some great articles, and for anyone who wants to stay in touch with VSTS as it moves through its early releases, I recommend you hook into Joe's feed. Good work...

I know it may seem like my blogging has been all over the place lately, but there is a structure and a method to everything, including the release of this much anticipated movie ! So until I smooth out the bumps in the my blog strut, I'm asking everyone...

Microsoft Learning has a great offer out at the moment which covers you for a second shot at an exam if you fail. Now, I know personally that sitting exams is hard work, and the added stress if you don't get that pass the first time around is a killer...

Um, first I used to just read a few blogs here and there, when there wasn't much to do, but then, I started reading them everyday before work, now, my family hardly sees me... This was a confession alot of us have heard recently, and to be honest, I've...

There seems to be a fair bit of confusion around regarding the Feb release of the VS2005 CTP. It is available via the MSDN subscribers download section, however, I haven't seen it anywhere else on the web. It was released on the 3rd of March for those...

I've always been fascinated by the language of developers. I don't mean C# or VB.NET either, I mean the way two or more developers talk when they get together; whether it's about the latest project they're working on, or a great webcast the recently watched...