mostlylucid

July 2005 Entries

Really nice site I have to follow up...

http://weblogs.asp.net/dr.netjes/

Nice stuff on a variety of ASP.NET / VSTS / etc… topics.

My slow rebirth continues

My so called life...

Well, I am still alive (I know you worry ) just settling in to my new reality – now the culture shock is wearing off a bit and I’m getting into the job proper. I picked up my first car last week (my brother-in-law’s old one, a good starter car) – getting a faster leased one in a few weeks (hopefully), not an RX-8 as I’d planned as the tax would have cost almost as much as the car… 
As far as technical stuff goes, I’ve been playing about with Visual Studio Team system a fair bit – getting a bit better understanding of the purpose of the thing as well as a lot better insight on how you’d actually use it. Currently the most awesome aspect of my job is the amount of time I’m getting to look at this newer stuff (including a couple of as-yet unannounced tools which are just fantastic).
I guess this blog is in somewhat of a hiatus a the moment whilst I get my head around my new reality – also whilst I get a handle on the technologies my customers  – and hence myself  – will be working with in future.
Oh, another cool thing I’m also planning to do is get to some user-group meeting around the Central belt of Scotland including a really interesting one with Dr. Neil Rodyn and Christian Weyer on the 21st , also heading over to Redmond for an internal conference called Techready during the first week in August – also been talking to Robert Scoble about a blogger meetup thing during that week…
So, fairly busy; been driving about like a mad thing as well…slightly worried that the dreaded speed cameras will end my driving career horribly quickly…

 

Visual Studio Team System VPC due next week...

Just heard that there will be a publicly (well,  MSDN subscriber) avaialble download of a Virtual PC image of Visual Studio Team System 2005 (plus all the bits you need to run it) avaialble soon. We've been using this internally for a while and if you want to really get to grips with this great product, it's fantastic...not sure about the memory requirements yet - but I'd guess 512MB won't cut it :-)