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All nighters...
I've started listening to podcasts from the PBS series NerdTv and today I was listening to a conversation with Max Levchin, one of the co-founders of Paypal. who had just been through his third all-nighter - that week. He said it was not unusual for him to do this, and some people like all-nighters and some don't. (An all-nighter is when you work through the night on some problem, or coding thing - in Microserfs it was referred to as a "Trip To Australia".)
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Team System Tests and NUnit Tests
I was just looking at the Composite UI App Block (for .NET 2.0 recently released) and they ship with their framework both Nunit and Team System tests.
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AzMan and WSE
I love Authorization Manager (AzMan), especially the idea of using role-based authorization, but with the roles being outside of the application altogether. So, from an developer point of view, you tell AzMan that you have a certain named application, and it performs a set of operations, let's say "OrderWidget", "UpdateInventory", and "CreateNewProduct". Then an administrator can create roles, organize operations into tasks, and assign permission to roles for tasks or operations. Finally, administrators can map Active Directory users or groups (and with a little help, other types of non-AD identities) into those roles.
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PodCasts
At the company Christmas Party a couple of weeks ago, the employees received an iPod (30GB) as a present. A great feature of these particular set of iPods was that our names were engraved on the back, otherwise I would have had a fight on my hands with my wife and my oldest daughter (who is turning into a big-time geek) over this new toy.
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Team Test
I'm getting into writing tests for a .NET 2.0 project, and I must say that one of the great things about writing unit tests in the Team Test environment is how easy it is to run those tests in the debugger in Visual Studio.
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Team Foundation Server performance numbers
There's a new post from bHarry telling how they scaled Team Foundation Server to a team of over 2000 developers, using a dual processor 2.8 Ghz, 4GB application server and a quad-processor 2.7 Ghz, 16 GB database server.