Monthly Archives: June 2006

34,000+ steps in one day

There are five teams at Readify (3359, 3361 – ours, 3362, 3363, 7219) competing in the Global Corporate Challenge. Team members wear a pedometer every day and record their steps into the GlobalCC.com.au website each night where they can track their progress against other teams and other companies (like Frank’s team at Microsoft).
I read somewhere [...]

Clipboard Image Monitor

The idea was thrown up on our internal mailing list by Matty Cosier:
“Wouldn’t it be great if TFS Bug Snapper could use images from the clipboard? Then I could use SnagIt or the built-in Windows Vista Snipping Tool to take screenshots!” (or something like that)
Clipboard Image Monitor is a small utility that sits in the system [...]

WPF Error Provider

Fellow Readifian Paul Stovell has put together a neat article for doing Error Providers in Windows Presentation Foundation – part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (NetFx3).

Great work Paul!

Tracking Hours in TFS

One of the short comings of TFS that has been identified is the ability to accurately track time against a block of work (a work item). At the moment developers must remember to update the “Remaining Work” and “Completed Work” fields (in the MSF Agile process template).
Here are four different options for tracking time. I wonder [...]