In the Champaign office, juggling computers to
test Teamprise on the various platforms we
support.
Welcome
Hi, I'm Edward Thomson,
software engineer, Mac user and general tinkerer.
When I'm not enjoying the fine Illinois
springtime, 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
Doing customer demos of Teamprise.
Geek Books I'm Reading
Ansel Adams: Classic Images
Why should a developer care about a
photography book?
Learning the basics
of visual arts will improve your UI.
Designing Interfaces
Another book to improve your UI.
This is less aesthetics and more
the psychology of UI: placement,
navigation, naming, etc.
Recent Blog Entry
Teamprise unveils "Teamprise Labs" at TechEd 2009
In case you weren't able to make it to Microsoft TechEd 2009 North America, you may have missed Teamprise's exciting announcement: we've launched labs.teamprise.com, an exciting new site for Team Foundation Server tools. Our labs site will contain a variety...
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May 19, 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
TFS on MSNBC Mobile
Win: MSNBC uses Team Foundation Server. Fail: MSNBC's builds are broken.
April 15, 2009
1 hour, 18 minutes and 8 seconds to go...
At the tone, the time will be 1234567890
February 13, 2009
New TFS VPC Trial Image
There's a new VPC trial image for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server. (With Service Pack 1 applied.)
January 16, 2009
TFS Installation Troubleshooting Guide
Sometimes TFS can be a bit difficult to get setup and configured properly. The new Installation Troubleshooting Guide is a huge help.
January 16, 2009
Interoperability Happens - Windows 7 + VMWare 6/VMWare Fusion 2
Ted Neward's first notes on Windows 7 within VMWare Fusion
November 3, 2008
Blogs I'm Reading
- Steve Northover: SWT creator
- Port 25: Open-source at MSFT?!
- Mac Noland: Hardcore TFS user
- Angela Binkowski: TFS Evangelist
- Mario Rodriguez: TFS manager
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.