I ran into an issue when dealing with memory utilization early on in my TFS2010 setup. Basically, right after getting Team Foundation Server up and running, I created a new project collection with a better name for my group rather than using the default “DefaultCollection” or whatever it is. Unfortunately, because SQL was hammering my [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Windows Phone 7 development
18-Mar-10So, the WinPhone7 development tools "preview" (or whatever its called) was released earlier this week. I'm, personally, pretty excited. Silverlight development is something I've been wanting to do more of and I'm an absolute nerd when it comes to gadgets. I was an early smartphone adopter going back to the WindowsCE/Mobile days, then a PalmOS [...]
In a follow up to my earlier post on TFS2010 and memory utilization on a VM (found here), I have applied the following setting to my SQL2008 instance and I’m restricting SQL to 1.5gb of RAM (out of 4gb). I feel this should be plenty for my small amount of usage. EXEC sp_configure ‘show advanced [...]
TFS2010 on a VM – Memory Considerations
17-Mar-10Thinking of running TFS2010 on a virtual server? Follow my learning curve on this process. This post deals with quickly realizing running the entire TFS “stack” on one server instance will take more memory than considered.
After a dozen years in various development teams, I finally decided to re-evaluate my current development team and the way we handle our work. I describe how it started, what I have done so far, and what is next.









