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December 2008 Entries

Quest for a simplified dev stack - ReSharper and MbUnit

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...

posted @ Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:02 PM | Feedback (0) |

Windows Home Server and New Router Issues - Cont'd

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...

posted @ Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:09 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ windows home server ]

Moved to SubText

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......

posted @ Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:42 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ blogging ]

Windows Home Server and New Router Issues

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...

posted @ Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:27 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ windows home server ]

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