May 2009 - Posts

0
Comments

Amazon Web Services Import/Export – fill your S3 buckets without killing your bandwidth by joelvarty

  One of the things about online file storage is getting the first massive data dump onto the server.  If you have a lot of data to store, it would be more prudent to simply take an external drive to the physical data center and do a transfer...
Filed under: , , ,
1
Comments

Remember to check-in when you re-format your machine!!! by joelvarty

Besides losing any code you may have written that you’ll never get back, those pending changes or locks will be stored on the server until someone does an “undo” or a workspace delete.   Here is the undo command: tf undo /workspace:TheirWorkspace;DOMAIN...
Filed under: ,
0
Comments

Windows Blog: “Windows 7 on Track to Hit This Holiday Season” by joelvarty

This is good news!  I just installed the Win 7 RC on the weekend and am still being pleasantly surprised by the quality of this build. Hopefully the RTM can come out when they say (3 months) and that we won’t see a repeat of the delays that made...
Filed under:
7
Comments

Load jQuery Dynamically by joelvarty

Sometimes you have to load jQuery, but you don’t know if it has already been referenced somewhere else in the website.  This tends to happen if you have a custom web control, delivered in an assembly, that relies on jQuery. This code has been ripped...
Filed under: , ,
1
Comments

TFS Work Item Changed Notification: Customizing the URL for Team System Web Access by joelvarty

This has been explained a bunch of times – most notably here – I just thought I would capture here what I did to update our TFS instance to solve this issue. Find this file: [drive]:/Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Web...
Filed under: ,
More Posts