January 2009 Entries

A Day in the Life of My 30th Birthday

It's long been known to people around me that I love to wear blue. Lately a coworker has been trying to get me to wear pink. She keeps telling me that real men wear pink. I bring this up because my 30th birthday was today and I walked into to see quite a display. But enough with the words... Most of the handiwork was brought to you by Dru. This could be due to other crazy work birthdays. This definitely raises the bar ......
Posted On Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:46 PM | Comments (6)

Universal NAnt Script for MbUnit

If you run automated builds using NAnt, you may or may not know about the MbUnit Task you can add to NAnt. MbUnit has pretty good directions for how to do get their task setup. I've been out to their site a couple of times trying to remember the exact details of the mbunit NAnt task. Dru put the thought into my head, why not make the concept of running the tests a more generic and universal item so that you can just drop a couple of files into a project and be done? I thought about this for awhile ......
Posted On Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:40 PM | Comments (5)

Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Machine Additions, and Windows 7 Beta First Impressions

If you are attempting to run Windows 7 in a virtual machine, do not install Virtual Machine Additions or you will get to find out what the Windows 7 System Restore Utility can do for you. At least do not install virtual machine additions until you update your virtual machine additions appropriately. If you are running Virtual Server like I am, this mean you just need to update your Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1 to the Virtual Server R2 SP1 Update. Then try installing the virtual machine additions ......
Posted On Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:51 PM | Comments (7)