Category Archives: Tooling

Make sprints available in visualstudio.com

Posted on January 6, 2017 by erictummers

We use visualstudio.com for our (after work) projects. Last night I noticed an old sprint was displayed as the current sprint on the Backlogs view. The list did not show any future sprints, but we had created them … Turns out you have to … Continue reading →

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Start-SqlJobAndWait

Posted on November 9, 2016 by erictummers

We have some SqlJobs that we run in our regression tests. To automate this we need something that can start the job and wait for it to finish. Based on this post we know we need to poll the sysjobhistory … Continue reading →

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Skype for business mac preview

Posted on September 28, 2016 by erictummers

We’ve been using Lync for some time on Windows and Mac. Microsoft has moved on with Skype for business on the Windows platform. Now a preview for the Mac is available and I decided to sign up for the preview … Continue reading →

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Spark as alternative to Cloudmagic

Posted on September 19, 2016 by erictummers

Cloudmagic used to be my email client on iOS. But with the introduction of Newton it became a paid service. Since there are free alternatives I decided to switch. My new favourite is Spark. What I want My list of … Continue reading →

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Lync for mac crash

Posted on May 12, 2016 by erictummers

After working for several months Lync for mac kept crashing on startup. No warning, no provocation, no survivors. The only way to stop the endless reporting is to uncheck the “restart Microsoft Lync” box. Upon further investigation I noticed a … Continue reading →

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