Since late 2012, Microsoft has been offering access to an Windows Azure-hosted Team Foundation Server (TFS) which they branded as "Team Foundation Service". At the beginning of the year, they took (most of) this service out of beta and announced that it would stay free for teams of 5 or less. The pricing for bigger teams hasn't been announced yet, and remains free currently, and is likely to be very affordable going forward.

For a lot of companies, Falafel included, this is a very compelling option. This service already gives you all the benefits of a cloud-hosted source control repository: ...

I've recently installed Windows 7 on a powerful desktop and a netbook. For the most, it's been an easy transition, but every so often I'll run into little quirks.

I use the excellent TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) to connect to SVN repositories, and one of my favorite features is the icon overlay in Windows Explorer so you can see at a glance the files which are under source control and their state. However, I was only seeing a couple of the possible icons. What could be wrong?

After some investigation, it turns out that Windows enforces a hard limit on ...