December 2008 Entries
Our dev stack at my company is a home brew of… Visual Studio 2008 Professional - core IDE ReSharper - our third party refactoring tool of choice TortoiseSVN – our Subversion control client of choice MbUnit – Our unit testing framework of choice TestDriven.NET - Visual Studio add-in for filling in the integration gaps between the IDE and MbUnit (or any other testing framework) .NET Memory Profiler and dotTrace – only a few folks have these...
I was able to restore my connectivity to the home server with the step described here. I was then able to connect to all the file shares and perform backups. However, I was still not able to connect to WHS via the Console: Additional tools exist for troubleshooting these problems. Go download the Windows Home Server Toolkit and install it. Then launch ConnectorTroubleshooter.exe at C:\Program Files\Windows Home Server\Toolkit\ It will give you a nice (ugly) report of issues it detects, with links to MS help documentation: In my...
After months of not blogging, this morning I decided to migrate my blog from dasBlog to SubText. SubText is a fork of .Text the original ASP.NET blog engine from Scott Watermasysk. Phil Haack brought the code base back to life as SubText a few years ago, and it's seems to be at the top of the popularity list. I clearly remember him making the announcement (and promising a simplified install) and assuming I'd move one day... today was that day, and yes... that install was much improved over .Text. I ended up moving over all of my content manually......
I recently scraped this Linksys for this D-Link. That Linksys was one of the early Draft N models, and it was flakey from day one and I should have returned it. I finally had enough, booted it for the D-Link. I’m much happier now. Not sure I’ll ever go back to Linksys. As soon as I was up and running with my new router I discovered that none of the machines on my network were connected to the WHS even though it appeared to be online and running fine. IP information about the location...