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]...
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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
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.