Author: Richard Hundhausen

Mar 25, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m generally involved in the .NET space, but often work with companies that have both .NET and J2EE running in their enterprise. Because of our focus on Team Foundation Server (TFS) and VSTS …

Misc Tools Visual Studio ALM

Outlook 2007 with Vista

Mar 24, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

During my recent upgrade, I moved to Vista and Outlook 2007. I have to say, I LOVE the Outlook 2007 UI. I’m much more productive, and it introduces some very, very nice features, like …

Misc Microsoft

Vista talking to our Windows Server 2003 VERY slow

Mar 24, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I recently “upgraded” to Vista on my laptop. Immediately, I noticed a few things that were very annoying… Primarily, it was the file transfer speed between my Vista box and our …

Misc

Next "Ask An Expert" Live chat - April 19, 2007

Mar 22, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The next Ask An Expert Live Chat is scheduled for Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 12:00 PM PDT. Mark your calendars (or click this ICS link). For more information, visit Microsoft …

Microsoft

FORTRAN creator John Backus dies

Mar 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.

Life

SqlSpec from Elsasoft

Mar 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

We all have our favorite database structure generator or schema reporting tool. Maybe we have built one of them in the past. I always tell my clients that it's a great "first application" to …

SQL Server

Visual Studio Team System Seminar in Boise

Mar 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Next week there will be a two-day seminar on Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Unfortunately, I won't be delivering the event. If you attend, you can see how VSTS includes an integrated team …

Visual Studio ALM Azure Boards Testing

Another good Google hack!

Mar 15, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

For some time, I’ve been sharing a neat hack that I came up with for finding files using Google. Here’s how it works: Assume you are looking for a specific file, such as northwind.mdb. If …

Misc

Agile Tool - 3x5 Cards that both shuffle and stick

Mar 14, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a great tool for agile development that was mentioned in a blog post below. Go get a stack of these! Shuffle them, pass them around, put your use stories on them, and slap them …

Preferred Practice Misc Tools