Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 has been available for a while, and as part of the VSTS Rangers projects we have been working with the new builds in virtualized environments. With powerful new features the next edition of TFS looks exciting, and we have a brief look into what's new. Over the next few weeks we will do some indepth looks at TFS 2010 and the new frontier provided by Microsoft.

I decided that it was time for the home network to get an upgrade, since testing the new Visual Studio 2010 TFS, developing 3 new websites, sky rocketing bandwidth usage and overworked machines where beginning to take its toll. Unfortunately I should have seen my wife packing up her MacBook and moving to the lounge as a sign that this was not going to be anywhere as simple as I claimed it would be.

I have not updated my blog for over a week, however the lack of updates where do to moving the domain and all my other hosting solutions to a new provider in the United States. Because of a few new requirements in my development projects I needed to use provider that support Windows Server 2008 and IIS7, as well as Framework 3.5 SP1 and Asp.net Mvc.

I am more and more amazed lately by the lack of hardware, networking and general computer basics knowledge demonstrated by developers. I have always maintained that this is a very important part of a developers knowledge tools and in this article look at how this knowledge solved various problems in an asset management system I developed more then 2 years ago.

Developing software often requires an individual to wear various different caps, the Project Manager, the Technical Writer, the Developer and the Tester. We look at these different roles and the concept of buttons and boxes for easy development used during the Bytes AMS project development.