Buck Hodges

Another Hatteras blogger: Jim Presto

August 2, 2004 Aug 2, 2004 08/2/04

Buck Hodges

Jim Presto, a tester on the Hatteras team, has got a blog going. He starts off with checkin and promises to delve into checkin policies next. Now, he mentions that “hopefully everyone has the concept of a portfolio project,” but I'm not sure about that. Perhaps James will post some more about that and how it ...

Using pushd to get to network paths

July 31, 2004 Jul 31, 2004 07/31/04

Buck Hodges

A short while ago I saw someone at the office use pushd to cd into a network path. I've used pushd/popd on Windows for some time, but I never thought to try it on a network path or actually read the help for it. Pushd will actually map the path to a drive letter automatically and then take you there. The latter part is ...

Python on .NET just got more support

July 30, 2004 Jul 30, 2004 07/30/04

Buck Hodges

Jim Hugunin, who has been writing IronPython, has been hired by Jason Zander (CLR PUM). He joins the CLR team on Monday, August 2, to work full time on IronPython and generally supporting dynamic/scripting languages on the CLR. That's really great news for Python on .NET. Check out the slide from his ...

Authentication and SOAP proxies

July 29, 2004 Jul 29, 2004 07/29/04

Buck Hodges

My last post discussed authentication in web service calls using HttpWebRequest. That caused one reader to wonder how this ties back to SOAP requests.If you are using wsdl.exe to generate a SOAP proxy class, it derives from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol. That class has a Credentials property. If you want to ...

Authentication in web services with HttpWebRequest

July 28, 2004 Jul 28, 2004 07/28/04

Buck Hodges

Hatteras has three tiers: client, middle, and data. The middle tier is an ASP.NET web service on a Windows 2003 Server running IIS 6. When the client (we use C# for both it and the middle tier) connects to the middle tier, it must authenticate with IIS 6. Depending upon the IIS configuration, that may be negotiate, NTLM, ...

The story on why Team System is not in Beta 1

July 22, 2004 Jul 22, 2004 07/22/04

Buck Hodges

Someone on the newsgroups asked for an official answer on why Team System is not in Whidbey Beta 1. The short answer is that it's not beta quality, so it didn't belong in a beta. Keep your eyes open for another CTP release in the next few months. The current plans for this upcoming CTP are for it to include the server ...

May CTP to appear again

July 22, 2004 Jul 22, 2004 07/22/04

Buck Hodges

The May 2004 CTP that contained Team System (but not Team Foundation, which includes source control and work item tracking) is supposed to be up on MSDN by Monday. There were a number of requests for it in the newsgroups after it was mistakenly removed from MSDN...

Scoble is everywhere

July 6, 2004 Jul 6, 2004 07/6/04

Buck Hodges

I got the July issue of Triangle TechJournal and opened it up to find an interview of Robert Scoble by Andy Beal (the interview doesn't appear to be on the web site yet). So even my mail box has been Scobleized.Among other things, he mentions taking 7400 pictures over the last 18 months. Even for digital, that seems like a lot. ...