I am starting the session planning process for ASPLive! Orlando is in full swing.  I will be tracking out the ASPLive sessions and this is my official notice that I am accepting submisssions.  Feel free to submit them directly to me or use the online form here.

VSLive is returning to Orlando!  The show will be October 9-13th.

 I have been asked to head up the ASP.NET content selection for this show.  The current plan is to split into three tracks: a Smart Client track, an ASP.NET track and a SQL track. 

 Please send all proposals to me and include VSLive Orlando in the title so that i spot them.  Alternatively please use http://www.fawcette.com/conferences/callforpapers/ to submit session ideas. This show will not be us just picking up all the content from the previous shows.  Twice a year we take a fresh look at the content and San Francisco and Orlando happen to be the shows we target.  Treat this as the first call for proposals.  I need all proposals by June 17th so I can get a preliminary matrix setup. I need proposals for both 60 minutes sessions and all day workshops.

Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:43:57 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]  

My subscription file in NewsGator got horked by a lodgenet proxy at the Rio Hotel in Vegas a couple weeks ago.  I sent it to newsgator who said they would fix it, took one look at it, and said they fix them by hand and I have too many feeds to do by hand.

Nice guys.  The unspoken implication is that your time is more valuable than mine.

So the search is on for a new aggregator.  While I kind of liked the fact that the messages were stored in Outlook I might be willing to look at some other type of aggregator.

I haven't been looking around but what is the killer aggregator as of late?  FeedReader?  RssBandit?  What?

Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:57:08 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [1]  

When I first started out with VSTS I created a nightly build project. Since I was just setting up my solution I did not yet have any tests to run.

Team Build unfortunately is a one way interface.  Once you setup the build the only editing experience you get in MSBuild!

So the trick to adding tests to a build without them is as follows.  Look for:

    <TestingFlag>false</TestingFlag>
    <!--  TEST ARGUMENTS
          If the TestingFlag is set to true then the following is relevant
          Metadatatest file path - mandatory
          Testlist name, a test list which is a part of the selected metadata file - mandatory
          Runconfiguration file path - optional, defaults to the active run configuration in the metadatafilename
        
    -->
    <TestingArgs> </TestingArgs>

Change the TestingFlag to true and point it at the vsmdi file in your solution which contains information about which tests to run.  Like this:

    <TestingFlag>true</TestingFlag>
    <!--  TEST ARGUMENTS
          If the TestingFlag is set to true then the following is relevant
          Metadatatest file path - mandatory
          Testlist name, a test list which is a part of the selected metadata file - mandatory
          Runconfiguration file path - optional, defaults to the active run configuration in the metadatafilename
        
    -->
    <TestingArgs>/testmetadata:$(SolutionRoot)\VergentSoftware.SeattleTraffic.vsmdi</TestingArgs>

Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:35:23 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]   VSTS

If you have done a single server install with AD and hit this error:

An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
Cannot impersonate user for data source 'TfsReportDS'. (rsErrorImpersonatingUser)
Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed)
Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070569)

Go to the local security policy and give the service account (TFSSERVICE) permissions to logon locally. Reboot and you should be golden.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:58:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [1]  

I recently made a quick trip out to Chicago to speak at the Day of .NET 6.  Thanks for Keith Franklin for inviting me.  As promised here is the slide deck I used:

Slides

Monday, May 02, 2005 7:52:31 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]  

Long time no blog.  Been doing quite a bit of reading, design and coding as of late.  I have been reading so many great books I decided that I should perhaps share a few of the books I have gone through.

Started a new category and this is the start of my reading list.

First Up:

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom Demarco

Key learning: Slack provides an organization the capacity to change. Many companies that have focused on efficiency by eliminating all slack have also eliminated their ability to respond to changing markets, etc.

Good airplane read.  Easy to finish between Seattle and New York.  Kind of diverges towards the end into Risk Management but the first 20 or so chapters are great.  Overall only 220 pages and an interesting read.

Saturday, April 30, 2005 7:13:49 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]   Reading List

Stuart Celarier an Ineta volunteer from Portland has posted information about the Birds of a Feather sessions at TechEd 2005.  Ineta and Culminis are organizing them again this year.

Go here to propose sessions.

Go here to vote on sessions.

See you in Orlando!

Monday, February 28, 2005 9:40:29 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]  

VSLive, the premier conference for .NET Developers, is returning to it's roots!  It has been over 10 years I believe since VSLive was last in Boston.  Boston it is June 28 - July 1st at the Westin Copley Place Hotel.

The plan is to split into two tracks: a Smart Client track and an ASP.NET track.  I have been asked to head up the content selection for the ASP.NET portion of this show. 

Please send all proposals to me and include VSLive Boston in the title so that I spot them.  Treat this as the first call for proposals.  I need all proposals sent to me by March 7th so I can get a preliminary matrix setup. I need proposals for both 60 minutes sessions and all day workshops. 

Each proposal should include:

Session Title

Three-Four sentence abstract

Your Bio

Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:54:30 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)         Comments [0]