I'm actively working to revive casadehambone.com as my personal blog site. Much debate and internal wrangling is going on about moving my corporate blog to here or not. I've been speaking with a couple of my blogger friends and there's a distinct theme...

I'm looking to buy a new workhorse of a laptop and came across a Dell Latitude D620 that's pretty pimped out. I've got a few Dell small business servers at home but have yet to own one of their laptop products. I've always been impressed and envious of...

I've been plagued lately in that whenever I create a new unit test, I have to manually add a reference to the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework assembly. I'm left scratching my head wondering why I have to do that and if I've done...

I've been staging a new set of virtual machines for running my Team Foundation Server demos and stuff. I'm using a Seagate 100GB 7,200 RPM USB 2.0 drive to move between my 64-bit desktop machine at home and my Toshiba laptop from work. In most cases,...

I just spent more time than I care to admit cleaning up the comments on blog. I cannot help but laugh at the sheer stupidity of these comments and the endless varations of the "Great article! blah blah blah <insert stupid link here>." Its times...

I traded some mail over the weekend with Ron Jacobs and Keith Combs about using Camtasia Studio from TechSmith for video podcasting. Ron, the godfather of ARCasts, made it clear to me that the way to go is Camtasia. Keith has provided some great guidance...

After a long session with uninstalling the mishmash of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite atop Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers, and some quality time in the Registry, \Program Files and AppData, I finally got back to a state where I...

In this blog post done earlier this morning, I mentioned that I was having issues getting Team Foundation Server Build to recognize my unit tests. I installed my Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite 180-day trial and was able to create a Test List that Team...

I've been running the 64-bit version of Windows Vista RC1 (the Ultimate Edition, of course) on my home machine which is a retail HP a1450n (quite an amazing box for $800, if you ask me.) This was a major step forward for me, as I'm an avid World of Warcraft...

It's now 3:04am, I have a working build but have been unable to get Team Foundation Server Build to recognize that I have unit tests associated with my project. While defining the build, the wizard properly identifies my .vsmdi file which contains the...

It's 2:56am. We had a nastly little storm here earlier this evening (well, yesterday evening at this point) with a tornado sighting a few miles from our house, which has not only given us cause for concern but has also massively delayed my wife's parents...

It's 2:48am and I'm futzing around with Team Foundation Server build. I came across a permission issue and was going to blog about it. And then realized that my current notebook build does not have any blogging software installed. And I hate used Web...