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Monday, January 26, 2009 3:03 PM

TFS Backup to Live Mesh

I’ve been thinking about the “little guys” of late and solutions not always available to the small dev groups, offsite backup being one of these. Windows Live Mesh is a solution I’m using for my photo library as the Live Desktop has 5GB of online storage
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:04 PM

Useful Links

This post is more for myself than anyone, it is a collection of links difficult to find that are nevertheless very useful. If they can help others as well then all the better. Team Foundation Server Customizable Team Foundation Build Targets Team Foundation
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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:08 PM

Win32 Error Codes and HRESULT Definitions

Not the snappiest of titles though if you are debugging Win32 applications, COM servers or just see a random error code in your event log these two mapges may be of help... HRESULT Values Win32 Error Codes I'll try and come up with something more interesting
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:28 PM

Virtual Server and Differencing Disks

Another trick I use in Virtual Server is the use of differencing disks. A differencing disk is one that inherits it's contents from a parent disk, a powerful tool when used to the ful. For example, I have a blank installation of Windows Server 2003 SP2
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:02 AM

How To: Failover a Mirrored Data Tier when the Principle Data-Tier is Not Available

Recently I've been working on SQL mirroring with TFS and concentrating on worst case scenarios, when the principle data tier goes down. The whole point of mirrors with TFS, as I understand it, is high availability. With regards to setting up mirroring
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:43 PM

My New Toy: Windows Media Centre

I've had an old warhorse of a machine serving my media needs for some years and now I am moving house and will be moving back to Freeview so I thought I would build a new Media Centre machine based around Vista Ultimate. To that end I've sourced and thrown
Posted by Jason Neave | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:02 PM

Testing TFS in a Virtual Environment

I've been a long standing proponent of virtual environments, for creating isolated test environments or sandboxing test rigs they simply can't be beaten. To that end I thought I would share some of the tricks I have used with the many virtual servers
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 4:38 PM

Foldershare and Warcraft Addons

So, my name is Jason and I play World of Warcraft. Shock, horror, etc... The problem is that I play WoW on my Mac and on my laptop when I am out and about. As with most players I have amassed quite a collection of AddOns since I started playing and keeping
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:16 PM

My Home Server Upgrade

I recently decided to take the plunge and decided my home server really deserved a case rather than running on my dining room table so invested in new hardware for my Home Server. I also upgraded from the 1GHz workhorse I was using to an almighty 1.2GHz
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:21 PM

TFS Client API and 64bit Systems

I had a case recently where a someone was trying to develop an application which used the TFS Client API to connect to TFS. The problem was that the target machine was 64bit and the assemblies are 32bit only. The workaround for this was to create a webservice
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Monday, December 17, 2007 3:20 PM

FolderShare + Home Server + OSX = WIN

Not exactly a Home Server addin so I didn't add it to The List but I'm finding that FolderShare is yet another background service I can't live without for one very simple reason. OSX. FolderShare is something Windows Live are currently working on and
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Friday, September 28, 2007 1:21 PM

HomeServer Tomfoolery - Tips and Tricks

So, finally got homeserver running on my ghetto setup. At the minute it consists of a VIA EPIA M10000 mainboard, 512MB RAM, two 500GB Seagate Baracuda's and a random power supply I had lying around. The case is notable by its absense, this is currently
Posted by Jason Neave | 2 Comments
Monday, August 20, 2007 3:47 PM

It Begins...

I've found myself more and more at a loss to find useful info online and have often ended up "giving it a go" and find my own solutions, usually by fixing things together with gaffer tape, physically or metaphorically. This includes building a home theatre
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