Month: November, 2007

Windows does the strangest things

28 November, 2007 (20:26) | General | No comments

A friend of mine sent a link for an MS KB - What to do when your computer starts to play classical music.

How depressing

28 November, 2007 (13:14) | General | 2 comments

Generally I am not a fan of Michael Moore at all. I dislike the man quite a bit. But here is something that makes aspects of our day to day existence somewhat depressing.

Thanksgiving on the Internet

24 November, 2007 (08:17) | General | No comments

I would hate to be newegg or fry’s today……

Project Server 2003 - the database from hell

22 November, 2007 (08:52) | General | No comments

Been doing some work against the db that ships with Project Server 2003. Oh boy! Count your lucky stars if you don’t have to touch that thing. Its awful. Anyway, my customer was kind enough to send this link to a series of steps to configure a VM of Project Server 2007 ( VPC Image […]

Connecting the data access technology dots

11 November, 2007 (15:53) | General | 1 comment

Both Roger Jennings and Rick Strahl are pointing out, each in his own way, that LINQ isn’t getting a lot of love in some quarters.  Roger connects the dots for slow thinkers like myself and points out that Rob Connery’s contribution of SubSonic to the ASP.NET team actually means that there is a real honest […]

Oooops

8 November, 2007 (08:37) | General | 1 comment

Yesterday I took part in a meeting with the technical management team of a customer. Picture a room full of about 12 people. Programmers, PM’s, Managers and even the CIO of the company in attendance. The purpose of the meeting was a presentation on the architecture and design of an application we are producing for […]

Everyone is a Vice President - Completely Agreed

1 November, 2007 (16:10) | General | No comments

Wes has a neat post about the “Title Wave” that is sweeping the country.  In short, it points to a strange demographic that shows an absolute abundance of VP’s.
Well, I can personally attest to that. Having been a VP of Server Dev and a Sr. VP of Technology, the interesting part of both positions was […]