After almost a year of frustration with personal and professional projects utilizing TFS (Team Foundation Server), I have decided to return my personal projects to Subversion. The time, effort, and the costs are far to high for me to use TFS on my personal projects. It is somewhat sad, as the potential with TFS is... Continue reading →

I’ve got at least three uses for video; Filming my drifting efforts at PIR, getting screen captures for samples I’d like to present via Visual Studio per a recent discussion I’ve had, and of course for general editing, manipulation, and entertainment value of filming things from planes, trains, to goofy people stunts or whatever. It’s... Continue reading →

I posted an example a few days ago regarding ‘ref’ and ‘out’ parameter keywords. My main purpose was to present a “tip o’ the day” via a code example of ref and out parameters similar to some questions I had been posed earlier in the week. One of my stellar coworkers pointed out that the... Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to be more consistent lately with my blog entries, making at least one a day during the Monday through Friday work week. Well, that has sort of kind of maybe not really worked out too hot yet. But as I sat and thought, while reading through some blogs, I stumbled on Stuart... Continue reading →

For that “keeping up” category entry this week I’ve hit up a few web site pages that have current topics of concern. The first I dug up was “Creating a managed service factory” by Martin Hinshelwood. Martin does a great job of laying out an interesting idea for managing multiple services via a factory. Read... Continue reading →