How to quickly flash your Vertex SSD from USB

You can flash your Vertex’s firmware only from the DOS (under Windows or WinPE won’t work). Here is the fastest way to create a bootable USB Key containing the DOS

How to know the remaining life of your Vertex SSD

MLC SSD have a limited life time, the vertex announced a MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) of 1.5 million of hours. This number is only based on a statistic of

My eSata port doesn’t work! Another noob issue solved…

I was very excited today because I got my new eSata external drive with a Vertex 120 GB, so I plugged it and…. nothing happened! No way I could put

When a network newbie plays with Hyper-V

I use Hyper-V since a while now, but somehow I always managed to get the network part working without doing anything special, until I met System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Roaming with Hyper-V: solving network issues

I installed Windows 2008 Server x64 with Hyper-V since a while on my laptop. Hyper-V was a great way for me to build up prototypes of several servers in a

Released a new Codeplex project: WITSynchronizer

Working with many clients on ALM and development processes I am often in a situation like this: I create a Process Template for the client and then create a Team

What you need to know to use the Process Template API

Developing an application using the Team Foundation Server Process Template feature is not an easy task, mainly because of the lack of documentation and sample around it. As I had

A laptop that rocks for Team System!

As I am a consultant, my best friend is the laptop I’m carrying all the time with me. Being a Team System consultant, it’s not easy to fulfill all the

French MSDN Article about Work Items with VSTS 2010

I wrote a small article for the French MSDN about the Work Item in the October CTP of Visual Studio Team System 2010. Here is is. Thanks to Eric Le

French article for ITExpert about ALM

I wrote an article with Eric Le Loc’h of Microsoft France for a French online magazine called ITExpert about ALM. This article is an introduction to development industrialization and how