Sam Jarawan's WebLog

Re-imaging part 2

I got some questions yesterday about what imaging software I'm using. It's an internal windows tool called "Total Control". The way it works is you boot with the disc on a machine you want to setup. By default it will create 3 partitions (C,D and E).

Re-Imaging my box

Today's going to be a busy day. I want to outline the process we go through on almost a weekly basis to keep up to date with new Whidbey builds on our development machines. Lets see where do I start. We have what we call labs where our source code lives.

What did we do before search engines?

I can't tell you how many times that while i'm coding and run into some type of coding problem or error and it's quicker to search the web for help than ask the developer across the hall from me or even look it up in my local MSDN help. I remember the

No bugs to fix?

One of the first things I usually do in the morning while I'm waiting for my espresso machine to heat up next to me is to check my bugs that need to be fixed. We're currently dogfooding our Work Item Tracking system so I launched Visual Studio and ran

Please welcome me to blogworld.

Hi, Well you're probably wondering who I am. My name is Sam Jarawan and I'm a software developer on the Team Foundation Server Team. Specifically I'm what we call a backend or middle tier developer on the "Work Item Tracking" aka "Currituck" team. I'm