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Finally someone started to port the Windows Communication Foundation to Mono. That"s great news because the only thing that keeps some of my newest works from running under anything different Windows is the WCF.

"Implementing peer-to-peer (P2P) communication was the main objective. WCF ships, by default, with predefined bits for making P2P connections in an easy way, being possible to build services which hosts a mesh of nodes (a node represents a potential client), taking care of everything related to registration of new nodes, message flow over the mesh, etc."

You can get the plan as pdf here.

Source: Mono Olive

Da habe ich sie also gesehen, DIE Komödie des Jahres. Tolle Kritiken hier und in Übersee, dazu hohe Einspielergebnisse an den Kinokassen. Vermutlich werden die Preise auch nicht lange auf sich warten. Nur - ich verstehe absolut nicht, warum.

Alle, die sich diesen Film ansehen wollen und eine heftige Komödie erwarten, sollen gewarnt sein. Der Humor ist überwiegend (sehr) tiefsinnig, und wenn er mal brachial herauskommen will, kann man damit nichts anfangen. Ganze Szenen ergeben irgendwie keinen Sinn (ja ja, Charakterentwicklung) und im Kinosaal herrschte dementsprechend minutenlang bedrückte Stille. Sicher funktioniert der Film an sich, aber für mein Verständnis nicht als Komödie, sondern eher als etwas aus der anspruchsvollen Romanzenecke.

Wer also richtig ablachen möchte ohne schwerdrückenden Realismus, der ist bei einer Komödie wie demnächst "Chuck und Larry" garantiert besser aufgehoben.

Jens Heymann

Uhh it seems that someone got hold of a power cord ... and did a bad bad thing:

 Wir haben uns vor kurzem 2 rote Thai Krabben gehohlt.

Das Weibchen "Isabell"

Das Männchen "Gregor"

Wir haben im moment als Landteil "nur" eine Wurzel. Der qm Styropor, das Epoxidharz und der Sand für den neuen Landteil liegen schon bereit. Wenn er fertig ist gibts natürlich Bilder von dem Bau und dem Ergebnis.

Source: http://blueturtles.schrankmonster.de

The Team Foundation Server 2008 Feature list is finalized and available... read it here:

"Administration, Operations & Setup

• Share Point 2007 support
• Enable use of /folder/sharepoint.htm on any server and any port
• Support for MOSS 2007
• Enable support for Reporting Services on any server and any port (new) (RTM)
• Support for SQL Named Instances – This will allow customers to share a SQL server between multiple TFS instances, or with other applications.  This has been a commonly requested feature by enterprises.
• “Longhorn” server support – TFS will support the next version of the server (and corresponding new version of IIS) that is currently under development.
• Sync Large Groups – This is a set of work to improve the performance and robustness of TFS’s handling large groups of users (~30,000 or more) granted permission to a TFS instance.  Today this can result in a support call to recover from it.
• Non-default ports – We’ve gotten a bunch of feedback from enterprise customers about TFS’s limited support for alternate web sites and ports running afoul of data center policies.  We are going to be improving TFS’s configurability in this respect in Orcas.
• Simplify installation – In Orcas, we will be doing a variety of things to attempt to make installing TFS easier and quicker than it is now.  Improvements include eliminating the separate data-tier installation, simplifying the requirements around required domain accounts by supporting the built in machine accounts (like Network Service) where we can, etc.
• Official testing and support for more configurations - This includes clustering, mirroring, log shipping, Virtual machine deployment, and more.
• Support for client certificates
• Upgrade from TFS 2005
• Support for SQL 2008 (aka Katmai) (new) (RTM)
• TFSDeleteProject now permanently deletes (destroys) version control content (new) (RTM)
• New role for many operations activities (new) (RTM) - You don"t have to be server administrator to run many of the admin utilities any longer.
• Enhancements to tfsadminutil (new) (RTM) - New capability to configure accounts, connections, etc on both TFS and the TFS proxy.

Build (more detail)

• Support multi-threaded builds with the new MSBuild.
• Continuous Integration – There are many components to this, including build queuing and queue management, drop management (so that users can set policies for when builds should be automatically deleted), and build triggers that allows configuration of exactly how when CI builds should be triggered, for example – every checkin, rolling build (completion of one build starts the next), etc.
• Improved ability to specify what source, versions of source, and other build properties.
• Improved extensibility of the build targets – such as ability to easily execute targets before and after each solution/project is built.
• Improved ability to manage multiple build machines.
• Stop and delete builds from within VS.
• .NET Object model for programming against the build server.
• Simplified ability to specify what tests get run as part of a build.
• The ability to store build definitions anywhere in the version control hierarchy.
• Scheduled builds - You can schedule builds to happen at specified times.
• Improved build agent communication - We replaced .NET binary remoting with WCF web services, simplifying some configuration and security aspects.
• Ability to run GUI tests as part of a build - Automated builds used to run tests in such a way as to prevent access to a GUI desktop.
• New checkin policy for broken CI builds - Preventing checkin while the CI build is broken.
• Support for HTTPS communication to the TFS server (new)
• Continuous Integration build checkin policy (new)
• Support for incremental gets and builds (new)

Data Warehouse

• Add support for checkin policy overrides to the warehouse - an oversight from V1.

Migration

• Migration toolkit – A toolkit for building conversion and mirroring solutions between TFS and other systems.  In addition, we will release one or more new tools to integrate with popular alternative systems. 

Version Control

• Annotate – This is based on the TFS Annotate Power Tool but includes numerous improvements.
• Folder Diff – Also based on the TFS Tree Diff Power Tool with numerous improvements.
• Destroy – The ability to permanently delete version control files/folders from TFS.  It can also be used to destroy the file contents while preserving the change set history.
• Get Latest On Checkout – There have been many requests for this feature (which was a change in behavior from SourceSafe).  There is now an option that allows you to specify that you want TFS to download the latest version of files when you check them out.
• Workspace improvements – Workspaces will now support mapping a folder or file under a cloaked folder and wildcard mappings so that you can map all files in a folder without mapping sub folders.  Based on experience with large projects, this will simplify workspace definitions for many people.
• Performance improvements – A variety of Version Control performance enhancements that will improve virtually all aspects of version control performance.  The gains for smaller servers/projects (< 10,000 files) will be modest.  The gains for larger projects (particularly where the file count approaches 100,000’s) will be substantial.
• Scale improvements – Fixed out of memory problems on the server when operating on more than a few hundred thousand files at a time.
• Offline improvements - We"ve signficantly improved the experience going offline and integrated the tfpt online capability into the IDE for going back online.
• Extranet support for the TFS Proxy - allowing you to access a local TFS proxy with a different set of credentials than the TFS server.
• Command line help - You can now type "tf command /help" and get a console dump of the usage of that command.  This is much more convenient than always being launched into the richer GUI hypertext help when you just want to remember what the options for a command are.  You can still launch the GUI help by running "tf msdn".  You can get a console dump of available commands by just typing "tf help".
• Source Control Explorer refresh improvements - This includes less redrawing and reloading but even more important it enables updates based on changes made in other instances of TeamExploror or the command line.  That"s right, if you checkout a file from the command line, any instances of TeamExplorer you have running on the same machine will automatically refresh.
• Async loading of the Source Control Explorer (new)
• The SCE local path can now be selected and copied (new)
• Merge improvements (new) - Improved the logic that detects merge conflicts to generate fewer false positives and handle more scenarios.

Work Item Tracking

• Performance & Scale improvements – A variety of improvements that will make both the work item server and client faster and able to handle larger servers.
• Query builder usability improvements - Drop down filtering based on current project, better MRU lists, column drag & drop, shift-click mouse based multi-column sorting, etc.
• Attachments improvements - Save button, drag & drop for adding an attachment, multi-select for attaching files.
• Tooltips on field names contain the field name used for querying
• Server side support for deleting work items & work item types - We didn"t have time to do client UI support for it but we plan to release a Power Tool that will take advantage of the new server side feature.
• Support for security on the iteration hierarchy (new)

Web Access

• Adding Web Access UI to TFS - As you"ve seen many places, we acquired devBiz and their TeamPlain Web Access product.  We are releasing it as a Power Tool in the next few months and plan to release it as an official product in the Orcas timeframe.  We have not figured out how the release date will line up with the Orcas date but it will be in the same general timeframe.

Bug fixes

• In addition to all of the feature work, we’ve spent months testing the product and fixing any bugs we’ve found.  We expect Orcas will have even better stability and robustness than TFS 2005.

Compatibility (no change since last time)

As Orcas is an adoption focused release, we have put a lot of emphasis on compatibility with VS2005.  We are striving for near 100% compatibility.  The Orcas client will be able to work with a VS2005 server and a VS2005 client will be able to work with an Orcas server.  There are only a few compatibility issues.

• Client side VS add-ins will need to be recompiled (or have policy changed) because the TFS OM assembly versions will change and add-ins will need to bind to the new assemblies.  The APIs themselves are generally not changing, so we don’t expect much in the way of code changes – just recompilation.
• Build is the only area where we plan to have some compatibility disconnects.  In general, most build operations - listing build definitions, starting and stopping builds, examining build reports, etc. will work both with 2005 client -> Orcas server and Orcas client -> 2005 server.  However, here are a few caveats:

1. An Orcas TFS server will only work with an Orcas build server - so you"ll need to upgrade your build server when you upgrade your TFS server.
2. For an VS2005 client to start a build on an Orcas server, the build definition needs to be stored at $/<TeamProject>/TeamBuildTypes/<name>.  In Orcas, you have more flexibility as to where to put them.
3. Changes made to properties in the .proj file that are in the database in Orcas will not be updated in the database and will no longer be in sync.
4. VS2005 will be able to start a build, but it can’t queue a build, see the list of builds in the queue, see the list of build agents, etc.
5. An Orcas client will not be able to create a new build definition on a TFS2005 server.
6. When starting a build, an Orcas client will not be able to change any parameters in the dialog for a TFS2005 Server."
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Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/08/final-tfs-2008-feature-list.aspx

I just started the formating of a 3 Tbyte truecrypt volume which is located on a Promise Vtrak m500i connected via 1 Gbit/s iSCSI...

This is some serious big truecrypt volume, isn"t it? (at least today it is...)

Ahzf took some pictures... coooooool:

Source: blog.ahzf.de

Everybody needs more than one job these days and so does FeM. One team at the Chaos Communication Camp 07 and one at the Hockenheimring, recording and live streaming the events.

You may ask what "Formula Student" is...:

"Students build a single seat formula racecar with which they can compete against teams from all over the world. The competition is not won solely by the team with the fastest car, but rather by the team with the best overall package of construction, performance, and financial and sales planning.

Formula Student challenges the team members to go the extra step in their education by incorporating into it intensive experience in building and manufacturing as well as considering the economic aspects of the automotive industry. Teams take on the assumption that they are a manufacturer developing a prototype to be evaluated for production. The target audience is the non-professional Weekend-Racer, for which the racecar must show very good driving characteristics such as acceleration, braking and handling. It should be offered at a very reasonable cost and be reliable and dependable. Additionally, the car’"s market value increases through other factors such as aesthetics, comfort and the use of readily available, standard purchase components.

The challenge the teams face is to compose a complete package consisting of a well constructed racecar and a sales plan that best matches these given criteria. The decision is made by a jury of experts from the motorsport, automotive and supplier industries. The jury will judge every team’s car and sales plan based on construction, cost planning and sales presentation. The rest of the judging will be done out on the track, where the students demonstrate in a number of performance tests how well their self-built racecars fare in their true environment."

 
Overview map of the event

As soon as the Live-Streams are available I will keep you updated...

Source 1: http://www.formulastudent.de

Die Koch Media GmbH sucht ab sofort Studenten und interessierte für Testvorführungen neuer Video- und Computerspiele:

"Wenn Sie bereit wären, natürlich gegen eine kleine Gegenleistung, die Entwicklung eines neuen Spiels (plattformunabhängig) zu verfolgen und zu beeinflußen und dies auch mehrmals in den kommenden Monaten machen würden, melden Sie sich bitte unter der Telefon-Nummer: 089-24245196."

Source: http://www.kochmedia.de

As ususal here"s the schematic overview of the things behind the curtain:

Source: http://www.implementierungsdetail.de/index.php?n=Main.TeamStreaming