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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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I was discussing the idea of maybe buying one of those fancy WD Terabyte External NAS drives with Jeff Gilbert today. A little while later I came across this image. Times have changed……

Last night my wife and I were discussing the future. She brought up the idea that once our daughter goes to  college we could move somewhere else. She literally said ” well from the looks of your business, you could really work anywhere in the world…”
There is some truth to that. Have you noticed […]

Rocky pointed to an article called “Considerations in Evaluating Onshore versus Offshore Software Development” which I wholeheartedly agree with.  Having led a distributed team in India and two time zones of the US, I can tell you that its not all cake.
Some of the problems we came across ranged from the typical cultural […]

Scott Hanselman pointed to a Silverlight demo of a Steely Dan song performed by Carl Franklin. Now there is a programmer rock star - literally. If you want to watch it, you need to install Silverlight. I am pretty much blown away by the amount of talent that Carl has. Its insane.

The Los Angeles times in its Sunday Edition carried a front page article by Peter Pae entitled ” Some Firms Move Jobs Onshore “.
The gist of the article is that numerous large corporations are looking to send jobs to small town USA where overall savings can equal those of sending the work offshore.
This appears […]

If you ever come across a situation where VS does not properly publish a site, but also doesn’t give any reason why, it maybe a good idea to go to the command prompt instead of VS. At the command prompt use the following statement
aspnet_compiler -v /MyWebSite -p “{Root}” “{Target}” -errorstack
Root and Target are directory […]

At the age of 12-13 years old I spent a year reading my way through the science-fiction section of our local public library. I grew up in a very small mountain town in Germany so consequently there weren’t that many books in the sci-fi section. I would say right around 15 to 20.  I’ve […]

I live in Los Angeles. Not far from Hollywood, Brentwood and Beverly Hills. In this town you frequently come across people who buy into their own hype and end up making fools of themselves.  Did anyone see Britney Spears at the VMA’s this year? I would ave missed it were it not for my daughter. Its a classic […]

Seems that the MVC framework that got Phil to move to Seattle was discussed at Alt.NET Jeffrey Palermo has a post about it. Its supposed to
Natively support TDD model for controllers.
Provide ASPX (without viewstate or postbacks) as a view engine
Provide a hook for other view engines from MonoRail, etc. […]

Have you ever had a smorgasboard? Probably if you live in parts of the country that were settled by Scandinavian immigrants. Its a lot of fun. In California I have only seen two restaurants in 20 years that offered it and both have long gone out of business.  A smorgasboard in this case simply means […]

SQL Server Reporting Services has become more and more popular, in no small measure due to the fact that it is free. When used in web applications, there is often an requirement to present the user a report as PDF file. For all of the obvious reasons (fidelity, print accuracy etc) .  One of our current projects […]

Today was the T-Mobile release date of the new Blackberry 8330 Curve Smartphone. What a great deal. Now some might argue that the IPhone is the best cell phone on the market. I am not one of them. Yes, of course the design factor of the IPhone is fantastic, but from a practical standpoint I […]

My wife has a colleague who is one of the hardest working doctors I have ever seen (or heard about). He works almost as hard as programmers
One if the benefits that this gentleman allows himself as a result of all his hard work are a few very expensive cars. He owns several, but […]

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I have been a pretty stalwart RedGate customer for a number of years. Which means in practical terms my review of this product is born out of hard-core usage in real production settings.
SQL Compare is one of those indispensable database utilities that most production shops absolutely swear […]