Jason Barile - Testing Testing

It's inevitable... You're under a tight deadline to make a critical bug fix and someone else has the file you need to change locked. You rush around and find someone with administrative rights to help out. Here's what they do: h lock /lock:none $/OurTeamProject...

Watch out SMT5600, there's a new drool-worthy smartphone on the block. If I didn't already have and love my Dell Axim x50v (and I hadn't just gotten a new Verizon contract), I'd be all over this phone. It's a very capable Pocket PC with 64MB RAM/128MB...

I was asked today to compare the list of allowed and disallowed characters in VSS to that of Team Foundation Source Control (TFSC). The short and simple answer is that anything that's a valid Windows filename character should be allowed in TFSC - so there...

If you've installed the TeamSuite SKU of the June CTP and you're wondering where all the Team Foundation Client components are, you'll need to install the TFC package to get it back. We've ended up making this a stand-alone installation. You can also...

During our accessibility test pass this week, we've also been looking various display settings like high DPI settings. DPI stands for "dots per inch" - the number of pixels per inch on your monitor. By default, Windows draws at 96dpi. However, higher...

Last night, I tried out 2 Pocket PC blogging tools: Diarist and PocketBlogger . Diarist supports several popular blogging engines, including Blogger, CommunityServer, and LiveJournal. The only quirk I've noticed so far is that the title field doesn...

This week and next, we're going to be focusing heavily on testing our features through the IDE (as opposed to the command line client). We'll be using code coverage measurements to see what lines of code our testing hits and what gets missed. As we go...

I've long thought Windows CE and .NET were great platforms for mobile robotics, and these folks have proven the theory. Appropriately named "The Finalizer", this bot is so adept at disposing his opponents, it's almost like it's using them just for fun...

If you have some spare time this weekend, check out Acrylic (that's a code name) - the beta of Microsoft's new professional graphic design tool. If you have questions or feedback, visit the Acrylic forums .

I use different input methods for my Pocket PC depending on which application I'm working with. Lately, I've been trying to use Transcriber more and more. In the past, I never had much luck with it recognizing my chicken-scratch scribble. Now it's great...

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