It seems as if this is a normally recurring issue with build automation and Team Foundation Server 2010 specifically. Utilizing Team Foundation Server’s build automation, it takes the *.sln and *.csproj files and utilizes that to create the output binaries as expected. What is unfortunate is that the .Net SDK doesn’t have everything that you need to handle build automation on a build …

As part of a project for a consulting job I’m on, the need we had was to give a forever expanding text area on the html form. This is the javascript I wrote to do just that. I’m sharing it because mainly, I think it’s cool!

I should have documented how this works. What you’ll do in the Html is to define a text area (could be an asp TextBox with its mode set to Multiple, …

It’s been a while since I’ve last written a blog post. Much to my amazement, there has been a few changes in the past n months that are scary and exciting at the same time.

I decided it is time to leave behind an old project and start to look ahead. I’m starting by taking a 6 month contract position with someone, and be forced back into 8 hour shifts, so I can get my full day …

In software development, it seems as if the devil is in the details. You just get a great whizz-bang product built, spent 100’s of hours on getting every last detail to work just the way it needs to in order to work in the market. Now, it’s time to sell the product.

Initial thoughts from potential customers are hopeful, but a few create a backlash with you. They say that …

It seems just when things in life are starting to get back to a better time, something worse starts in that puts you 5 steps behind where you started. Again, that is the day for me today…

Things are going well, as my mother’s surgery has finally turned life around for her. She is handling the healing process, and is pulling through quite well all in all. Then the issue of …