Guy Starbuck

At Yahara Software, we have standardized on using Mercurial as our source control management tool.  This blog post is a set of basic instructions for installing the tools and getting code from a Mercurial repository, hosted on HTTP.

Our Agile project management tool at Yahara Software is currently TargetProcess – it’s a really nice, powerful and intuitive product.  It has a feature for closing out Sprints that allows two options:

I recently re-purposed an SSD from being my primary hard drive into a second hard drive, but didn't reformat it.  As a result, when trying to clean up the drive, I ended up with error messages when I tried to delete the Windows, Program Files, ProgramData, and Program Files (x86) directories:

We have been running builds from an Azure VM for over a year now, and over the last few months we have had some issues where the IP address will change on the VM, which impacts the ability to connect to the local SQLExpress database to run database scripts.

MVVMLight and ModernUI Navigation

MVVMLight and ModernUI Part 1 - Setup

When I first started playing with Visual Studio Online, it took a few tries to get the order of operations down to set up a new project and Git repository.  This blog post is a reference for the best way to set up a clean repository that’s ready for collaboration.

This is another post that came from a question on StackOverflow – The idea is to load up a drop-down (I used a System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox) using values defined in an Excel document.