Edward Thomson

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... Read More

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

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.