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One Month In

This morning I realized that one month ago yesterday (3/24) I arrived bright and early to building 43 on the Microsoft campus to begin NEO ( New Employee Orientation ) and to begin my career with Microsoft. What a month it's been. While all of the 24th and a good chunk of the 25th were spent in NEO...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-25-2008
Mr. Grant Goes to Washington (state)

... or Borg.Assimilate(Me) ... or Brendan.Drink(Drink.KoolAid); ... or Brendan.Soul.Sell(Microsoft) ... or Brendan.Employer.Name = "Microsoft"; At last the background checks are complete and now all that remains is the move and my first day... On March 24th I will be joining the Windows Home...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-22-2008
Proof of concept add-in: Media Connect Controller

While the Home Server Console exposes the ability to share ones built in Videos, Music and Pictures shares using Windows Media Connect (WMC) (Microsoft's implementation of the Universal Plug and Play Audio and Video standards )... the Home Server UI falls flat if one wants to share digital content...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-10-2008
New Home Server Add-in: Tab Manager

In yet another attempt to make the Home Server Console a little more manageable with regards to multiple tabs, Tab Manager allows a user to bypass the normal Home Server Add-in loading mechanism and display whatever tabs they want inside of another tab. Say what? Rather than having a cluttered tab tool...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-23-2008
Coming Soon: Tab Management

Last month I mentioned a proof of concept add-in I was working on to change the way a user looks at some of the tabs in the Home Server Console. I'm pleased to say that this add-in still proceeds (granted fairly slowly over the last month) and with any luck will be available in an early form before...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-16-2008
Amazing New Add-in: Disk Management

After first seeing the announcement of Sam Wood's new Disk Management add-in I cursed at being beaten out of the door with a tool to help a user figure out which drive is which in their Home Server Console as my attempt kept getting pushed back due to other priorities. Then I used it... and was thrilled...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-15-2008
How many tabs is too many?

Ever wonder how many console tabs the Windows Home Server Console can display? So did I... so I built a few extra projects and deployed them to my Home Server: The answer is... 100 and believe it or not... that's a bad thing! As much as I would like to see such wide spread WHS development that there...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-30-2007
WHS Dev Tips: Correction

On Monday and Tuesday I made a horrible mistake in the two part WHS Dev Tip on remote and local debugging as I completely forgot about the static Control.CheckForIllegalCrossThreadCalls property that can be used to get around debug time exceptions such as this one: Both tips #9 and #9.5 have been updated...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-13-2007
Proof of concept add-in: Tab Management

Part of the reason I created Tab Scroller was that at times I just have too many tabs to deal with in the Windows Home Server Console and today I came up with another method of dealing with large numbers of them... a Tab Management tab. What does it do? It is a tab itself, which in turn loads a specified...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-11-2007
Relaunched: BrendanGrant.com

After owning the name domain for more than four and a half years... at last, there is now actual, useful, honest to goodness content! And no... there are no links related to the cobuyitaphobia wars (in which I was victorious ). Despite the frequency of Windows Home Server related postings on this blog...

Posted to I Hate Linux (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-03-2007

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