Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

2005 - Page 9 of 10 - Buck Hodges

Using branching in source control to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements

February 9, 2005 Feb 9, 2005 02/9/05
Buck Hodges
Someone posted this question recently in the newsgroups. I have a question concerning promotion processes using Source Control. Due to requirements from Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), we will need to have tight controls on source code that is being checked into UAT and Production such that it will pass an audit showing that is being tightly controlled ...

Setting Internet Explorer’s home page by drag and drop

February 2, 2005 Feb 2, 2005 02/2/05
Buck Hodges
Tim, who worked on IE among other things in his career at Microsoft and now works on Hatteras, showed me tonight that you can set the home page in Internet Explorer by dragging the link from the Address bar to the Home icon on the toolbar.  I had no idea.  I burst out laughing.  It's a neat trick once you know it, but it ...

Timeouts on the HttpWebRequest (and thus SOAP proxies)

February 1, 2005 Feb 1, 2005 02/1/05
Buck Hodges
Last summer I wrote several posts on using HttpWebRequest and SOAP proxies.  Recently I was working on code that needed to handle requests that could take a really long time for the server to process.  The client would give up and close the network connection long before the request completed.The code had tried to control that using ...