Development Notes, News and Ramblings
“…..Think the hottest Tech job going is systems management or software engineering? Nope, it’s database administration.
As data not only inundates U.S. companies but becomes more vital to business success, the pool of database administrators has swelled faster than other IT-related jobs. The number of people calling themselves database administrators jumped 10% from a year ago […]
Well done books are such a pleasure to read and review. Pro ADO.NET 2.0 is one of those well done books. I had a blast with Sahil Malilks 560 pages of .NET data access technology. And coincidentally this book once again proves my theory that the best reference books created in the tech sector all […]
The day before Thanksgiving my DSL router died.
I didnt know it at the time because I was busy trying to set up a cable modem connection. First of all, it strikes me as really odd that calling the Cable Internet Sales number at Comcast always always always ends in a cheesy little voice mail. […]
Using FolderShare With PasswordMinder
Now anytime you make a change to your Password Minder file, on either computer, it will be synced across both machines (assuming they are both on and logged in—otherwise they will sync the next time both machines are up).
I love it when people get creative….
SkillJam the company I work for as Software Architect, received a huge cash infusion yesterday when Liberty Media bought a 51% controlling stake in its parent company. The two guys at the top who bought SkillJam about a year ago from another entrepreneur are looking at earning millions in return on their investment, since each […]
“…. The exodus of Microsoft’s brain trust is just one facet of the current sorry state of affairs of the occupation of its once fertile territories by an army of self-perpetuating, mindless, marketing zombies who are completely cut off from contemporary software tool requirements and are feeding product development with regurgitated goals from product usability tests […]
Roger Jennings spent some time with Google Base and found a couple of holes. One of them was the fact that a dataupload / update took several hours for just a handful of records.
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I grew up in Germany, where for the most part you dont necessarily need a car to get around. Especially in the bigger cities. Of course things are different in the US. So this weekend I found myself on a Metrolink train visiting my mother in law. What a nice experience! Unlike Amtrak, the Metrolink […]
Approximately 5 years ago I was sub contracted by a consultancy who had gotten themselves in over their head. This consultancy had sold a customer on a Windows DNA / n-tier type application but had nobody on staff who ever coded anything like that. One of my very first deliverables in this arrangement was a document that […]
Eric Sink has some of the best writing on software. God bless him….and I do like him better than that NY WindBag whose bugtracking software I’m buying by the dozens (it is a pretty good product)
I want to implement this algorithm as a feature in our bug-tracking product and make gigabucks selling it to all those […]
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Thats about as terse as I can get…
I believe this book succeeds in-spite of itself. The introduction discusses the intent of the authors in the following words: “ …And so in designing this book we decided that we did not want to do the standard “new feature march”. Instead this book focuses on designing distributed applications using the .NET framework. With this […]
James Avery found that URL Rewriting in 2.0 isn’t all that its cracked up to be. So he recommend staying withthe 1.1 solution.
I am a software guy. Consequently I’m always impressed with hardware people. When I came across Rob’s account of restoring a 1940’s mobile home / camper, I had tears in my eyes by the time I came to the last images. Funny how his picture diary should provoke such an emotional response. Check it out […]
I stumbled across this site the other day. Did you make paper airplanes as a kid? We used make a ton of them in school and even have little competitions to see which would fly the farthest. I haven’t had a chance to try this model yet, but it sure looks like it would beat any […]
This book is something of a mixed bag. There are sections upon sections of code reprinted from a sample app which in my mind detract on several occasions from the information that the authors want to get across to readers. A few years ago I had a conversation with a fellow writer about the way […]
One of the strengths of Ruby has been the productivity described by many programmers. In short, you build more with less code. whilst looking into that claim, which seems to be correct, I came across this little page discussing the productivity of SmallTalk. Who would have thought that VB is more verbose than SmallTalk.
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Three years ago I was desperately looking for this solution. The pricing is incredible.
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The ReportViewer control enables embedding reports in applications developed using the .NET Framework. The control offers the following benefits:
* Processes data efficiently. The reporting engine built into ReportViewer can perform operations such as filtering, sorting, grouping and aggregation.* Supports a variety of ways in which to present data. You can present data as lists, tables, […]
It occured to me that working with RoR and testing out various pieces, it might come in handy to have an interactive debugger available. I haven’t found anything that really got me excited as yet, but I did come across an IDE for Ruby itself that seems to be reasonably priced and might do the […]