I’ve been using Mercurial, a distributed version-control system, for a while now at home. Even without using a DVCS’s distributed nature, they make a great choice for a personal version control system: They all share the common trait that they keep all version history on the local system; most centralized VCSes keep only the latest [...]
Microsoft’s Giving Campaign is an annual opportunity to focus on employee charitable giving and volunteerism. They’re not limited to a single calendar month, of course, but the campaign provides the opportunity to run company-wide initiatives like a charity auction. The auction is an opportunity for employees to donate physical goods (homemade baked goods a specialty) [...]
App-V v4.6 has been released, marking my first shipped product on the App-V team. Lots of announcements:
App-V 4.6 is now available, plus some new Resource Kit tools
App-V 4.6 RTM and MED-V 1.0 SP1 RC are here!!
Office 2010 and AppV 4.6
Also released is the Microsoft Application Virtualization SFT View tool that is part [...]
The Cambridge-based WiX East Virtual Team have is pleased to announce its first major contribution to WiX: The Lux unit-testing framework. Lux will be available in the next weekly release of WiX v3.5.
Unit-testing custom actions with Lux
Custom actions are a frequent cause of installation failures so it’s important to test them thoroughly. Custom actions themselves [...]
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