Coming Soon: Coworking at Sypher Technology

We've taken another step towards opening our office to coworking! At launch, we will be making our conference room and four of our desks available to people who normally work from home or in coffee shops. We don't have 8,000 square feet, but we do have a convenient east-end location. Check out the launch page at sypher.co and sign up to be one of the first to know when we officially open!

New Site Design

Sypher.com has a new design! Come check it out and let us know what you think!

Happy 8th birthday!

Sypher Technology is now eight years old! A big "thank you" to all of our clients over the past eight years!

Free Sypher Mug & Deskspace Today with Check-in

In celebration of Foursquare Day (#4sqday), we are having a little fun with Foursquare!

Until we fill up or run out of mugs, free desk space and Sypher mug (4/16 ONLY) for anyone who checks into our co-working center on Bluegrass Parkway.  Come out and preview the place before we start charging!  E-mail us at sypher-info @ sypher.com to reserve a desk, or just drop by for a mug!

Converting SourceSafe Databases to Team Foundation Server 2010

If you've been trying to move your SourceSafe 2005 database to the new Team Foundation Server 2010 using the help found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181247.aspx, you may have run into the following problem:

TF60070: Unable to connect to the Team Foundation Server: 'http://Servername:8080/'. Please ensure that the Team Foundation Server exists and try again.

With the new TFS 2010, you also need to include collection information in the tag. This is what our settings.xml file looked like when I finally got this to work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SourceControlConverter>
  <ConverterSpecificSetting>
    <Source name="VSS">
      <VSSDatabase name="c:\VSS"></VSSDatabase>
      <SQL Server="." />
    </Source>
    <ProjectMap>
      <Project Source="$/" Destination="$/SourceSafe Backup"></Project>
    </ProjectMap>
  </ConverterSpecificSetting>
  <Settings>
    <TeamFoundationServer name="servername" port="8080" protocol="http" collection="tfs/DefaultCollection"></TeamFoundationServer>
    <Output file="migration_Analysis.xml"></Output>
  </Settings>
</SourceControlConverter>

Hope this helps someone else!

New 2008 Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Products Available

The 2008 Kentucky Derby is less than two months away! The Louisville News Company now has official Derby glasses, the Derby Magazine, programs, stat sheets and other products available for the 2008 Derby and Oaks. Be sure to check out their selection and place your order early!

Why we recommend Gmail

This is a post on the Gmail blog about their spam filter. The two biggest features Gmail offers for personal e-mail and hosted domain e-mail are the spam filter, super-fast searching, and very large mailboxes. Oh... The three biggests features are the spam filter, super-fast searching, and very large mailboxes... and a great calendar. Four! The four biggest features... Oh well, you get the idea.

Official Gmail Blog: How our spam filter works

We previously hosted our clients e-mail on one of our servers, but ever since the Google Hosted Services / Google Apps stuff went public, we've been moving our clients over to use that instead. We've been using it for our sypher.com domain e-mail since it was in Beta, and I don't think we'd ever move back to hosting our own again. I'd highly recommend this for any organization with less than 25 e-mail accounts, and probably even for you bigger companies out there.