Edward Thomson

In the Champaign office, juggling computers to test Teamprise on the various platforms we support.

Welcome

Hi, I'm Edward Thomson, nerdy software engineer. When I'm not enjoying the fine Illinois summers, I update this site occasionally with my thoughts on Team Foundation Server in particular, and software development in general.

What I'm Doing Right Now

Working on Teamprise 4.0.

Interviews

The Thirsty Developer: Dangling Links

I discuss working on cross-platform software in general, and access to Team Foundation Server in particular.

InfoQ: Team Foundation Server for Telecommuters

I discuss Teamprise Remote Accelerator, our single-user version control proxy for Team Foundation Server.

Recent Blog Entry

Application Compatibility with TFS 2005 and TFS 2008

Although I usually blog about cross-platform aspects of Team Foundation Server, sometimes you run into interesting issues when writing third-party apps strictly against Microsoft's TFS SDK. I thought I'd mention one of the problems we ran into writing Remote Accelerator[1]... Read More

August 4, 2009

Popular Blog Entries

Here Be Monsters

Thanks to digg and reddit, this criticism of MacOS was widely read. If you read the comments, you'll note that the criticism of fanboys and zealots was especially accurate.

Rails: Validation with multiple models

A strategy for handling errors in Rails when updating multiple models in a single transaction.

Complex SQL Queries with Rails

One solution for handling complex JOINs in your Rails model while retaining most of the benefits of Rails' simplicity.

Why you should work for Teamprise

I wrote this entry to extoll the virtues of working for Teamprise. We're still hiring, and it's still accurate.

Recent Surfing

A Review of the Pirated Copy of Windows 7 I Bought On eBay

I'm looking forward to Windows 7 all the more.

October 7, 2009

Chicago Boss - the no-nonsense MVC framework for Erlang

This would have made a funny joke. Now it's just scary.

October 1, 2009

Review of Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse

A kind review of Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse that made the entire team proud.

August 11, 2009

TFS on MSNBC Mobile

Win: MSNBC uses Team Foundation Server. Fail: MSNBC's builds are broken.

April 15, 2009

Edward Thomson is a Software Engineer at Teamprise, where he develops cross-platform client solutions for Microsoft Team Foundation Server, with an emphasis on Macintosh compatibility and IDE integration.