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Can you recommend some books?
I've been asked to find books on the following topics. Can any of you recommend some of these books, or maybe other ones?

SharePoint Portal
Using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server by Robert Ferguson
SharePoint 2003 User's Guide (Expert's Voice)  by Seth Bates, Tony Smith

Microsoft Solutions Framework
Enterprise Development with Visual Studio .NET, UML, and MSF by John Erik Hansen, Carsten Thomsen
This one looks cool, but will only be available later...:
The Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development: The Definitive Guide to Microsoft's New Agile Methodology by Granville Miller

Microsoft Compact Framework
Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework: Architecture and Best Practices for Mobile Development by Dan Fox, Jon Box
.NET Compact Framework Programming with C# by Paul Yao, David Durant

Microsoft Solutions Architecture

Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services by Microsoft
Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net by Microsoft

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Posted: May 12 2006, 01:17 PM by Thea Burger | with 2 comment(s)
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One Click configuration of Subversion!!! (Well, almost)

We've decided to give Subversion a go for the project that we are developing, so the mission started. Download, search for good tutorials, read a lot, try this, try that... We installed it, and started configuring it from the command line and then the problems started. Searched some more and then I came across this: The Subversion 1-Click Setup [through Joe White's blog]

"The goal of this project is to simplify the process of setting up a Subversion repository on a Windows-based computer. Svn1ClickSetup takes a user through the steps necessary to install the Subversion command-line utilities and TortoiseSVN, as well as creating a repository and initial project."

We uninstalled everything and used this to configure it - worked perfectly! Thanks Brian Kohr!

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Posted: May 11 2006, 08:58 PM by Thea Burger | with 1 comment(s)
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NAnt does NOT support .NET 2.0

While setting up CruiseControl.NET, I created a NAnt build file to build the solution. I visited their site to make sure I have the latest version and was very happy to see that NAnt 0.85 nightly build support .NET 2.0 now. After everything was configured, I went to the dashboard only to see that my build failed. Sad [:(]
So I went back to command prompt to run NAnt from there, and the response I got?

Buildfile: file:///D:/Projects/NFP/build/NFP.build
Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Target(s) specified: test

compile:

 [solution] Starting solution build.

BUILD FAILED

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005 solutions are not supported.

Total time: 0.1 seconds.

I couldn't understand this, as it clearly stated on their site that it is supported, so I started searching and found this:

"While NAnt itself will run under the 2.0 platform, the <solution /> task does not understand VS 2005 solution files."
"We do not yet support .NET 2.0 in the <solution> task."

As it is a free tool, I won't complain too much, but IMO, that is VERY misleading. So I'm forced to use MSBuild and I'll stick with it.

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Posted: May 11 2006, 08:00 PM by Thea Burger | with 2 comment(s)
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Hockey

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while now, but I thought I was going to bore certain people as I talk about it too often...Stick out tongue <img src=" />  I’m quieter about it these days, so I’ve decided now is ok...
About 2 months ago I signed up to start playing hockey again - for Morningside Country Club - after seeing some girls play while I was there for a club run. The last time I played was 8 years ago, and I must say, the skills are lacking a bit. So needless to say, I was very surprised when I was picked for the 1st team! I think the only reason is because I am relatively fit :-)

We've played 2 games so far: one was a draw and we lost the other - those girls just seem faster and younger and fitter every time, while we’re running around the field like headless chickens! But we’ll get there. Although, when I was standing next to the field last night in the bitter cold, after being hit twice – once with a stick on the ankle and the other time with a ball on the knee, I was contemplating changing to a peaceful summer sport – maybe swimming or golf ;-)

And I want to test the wikipedia link... [wikipedia:field hockey]

Life Update #1

Well, to be honest - at the moment I don't have a clue what is going on in the rest of the world, not even the blogging world. Big reason for that is my sister, Rita-Mari and my nephews that visited me for 2 weeks. The kids ran around from 6 o'clock in the morning till about 10 at night! I have never in my life been so tired. People keep on telling me that it is different with your own kids, but I think I will pass for now. Besides that it was wonderful seeing them again and we got to go to places that we never visit on our own. We went to Gold Reef City, to the bird show and on the balloon ride at Monte Casino. It was awesome! Some pics here...
But they're back in Namibia now and life is back to normal. The house is very quiet suddenly…

Work is looking more exciting for a change - we are actually done with analysis and proposals and functionality docs and all other documentation and processes. Currently we’re preparing for development. I’ve configured SharePoint Services for our team to use to collaborate and I must say I was very impressed with the easy installation and configuration. Perfect for our team’s needs. I started running into problems when I started to configure CruiseControl.NET on the same server, but more about that later.   

Posted: May 09 2006, 08:11 PM by Thea Burger | with 2 comment(s)
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