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August 2006 - Posts
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A while back I was chatting with Trisha – one of my Microsoft buddies. She was telling me about a time at Microsoft before she was hired, a time known as “Bedlam”. E-mail was out for days and people flipped out. The Read More
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I want to thank Keith Rome up front for pointing the solution out to me.
The other day I had an issue trying to get the right set of data into a query’s output. I wanted to avoid cursors and temporary tables, but I had to do several Read More
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Microsoft's Windows Server team will be conducting research in the Atlanta region August 22nd through the 29th.
The team would like to meet with IT Professionals at their workplace to observe the types of tasks they typically do in Read More
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Microsoft is serious – Log onto Xbox Live within the first 48 hours after the launch of Texas Hold’em and you can get it free! The 48 hours are 1:00 AM Pacific Time on August 23 (that’s today!) to 1:00 AM Pacific Time on Read More
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I just learned about something new. Way back in the Windows NT 4.0 days, I learned that Windows allowed software to use up to 2 Gb of memory. The boxes could actually hold up to 4 Gb, but the memory was usually split 2 for the app, 2 for the Read More
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We’re all familiar with how frequently Microsoft releases some tool or component or add-on that helps us do our jobs better. Frequently these products receive lots of coverage and are the focus of large product groups. Take Virtual PC and Read More
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Excellent turnout in terms of percentages at last night’s SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Level 200 presentation. We had 23 people registered to attend and where we normally experience between 25% and 40% drop-off, last night we saw only a 17% drop-off. Read More
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There is still room for attendees.
Register for tonight (seminar presentation)
Register for tomorrow (hands on lab)
Thanks in advance to everyone for coming out and supporting us! Read More
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Last weekend was filled with wedding festivities as one of Kim’s best friends Amy married her long time beau John. Kim was one of 5 bridesmaids which meant she has been working on this wedding for quite some time, what with bridal showers, bachelorette Read More
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I don’t know if anyone is interested, but the CompUSA right off the GA 400 exit 7, Holcomb Bridge is closing its doors and is selling everything in the store at a discount. Right now everything is marked down 10% – 30%. System memory, hard Read More
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The most recent issue of Windows IT Pro magazine has a short 1 page article from Mark Minasi about Netsh Tricks. The article piqued my interest so I went out to learn a little more about it.
Netsh is the result of a joint effort between Microsoft Read More
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Charlie Arehart of ColdFusion fame is reaching out more and more to the .NET development community, as he did yesterday with his presentation of the relatively new SQL Server Report Builder tool. Report Builder is actually a part of the much larger Read More
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I’m working on rewriting an application that handles part of the promotions and advertising sales here at work. The application was written back in 1997 or 1998 by an Access developer who didn’t seem to really have a firm grasp on concepts Read More
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I have been doing some SharePoint 2007 work for the past couple months and I find it very difficult to find information about just SharePoint 2007 BETA 2. If anyone knows where a good newsgroup or forum is please let me know. In the mean time Read More
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I've been waiting around for a new phone with a great set of features. I've posted about it once or twice before. Now I've found it. Watch this amazing video. Read More
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Can anyone remember who the ball players were signing autographs at Fenway Park during the Tech Ed 2006 Attendee Party? I've scoured the web and can't find any names. Some of my non-techie friends are big baseball fans in general and Red Sox Read More
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This morning I was putting a simple little web app online in our production system when bizarre things went wrong. I asked around and noone told me the right answer so I thought I’d blog it.
My simple little ASP.NET 2.0 web app takes an XML string Read More
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Check out this neat photo that Kim and I just received, enclosed in a letter from Kim's Grandmother.
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The Michael C Carlos Museum of Emory University is hosting an exhibition of ancient Roman artifacts from August 5th to October 22nd. The neat thing is that these artifacts are from the Italian mainland near Naples but were buried by the same Read More
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Now that I just went on that Amazon.com shopping spree, Brendon asks me a valid question, “What do I want for my birthday?” I’ve got to be honest. I’m not really sure. I thought about getting a new laptop or Read More
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Well, it was actually a little more b/c pretty much none of these items qualified for free shipping. Oh well.
First up I grabbed a 4 Gb SanDisk Memory Stick which I can use in my PSP. This was a great purchase, I felt, because it turns my Read More
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Thanks to my new role as Jack (of all trades) at my company, I've just spent more than a day dealing with what turned out to be a misconfiguration in Active Directory. So that means that I need to learn a lot more about AD so I can prevent Read More
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The new beta version of the Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer is awesome. One of the great features I just played with is the Photomontage feature.
While in Italy, I took a couple photos of the Trevi Fountain
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After the power outage at the office here this weekend, the nine Blackberry phones suddenly stopped being able to send e-mails. It turns out that we’d installed an Exchange security service pack which contained some anti-spoofing measures. Read More
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Posting these so they don’t get lost in the shuffle. Feel free to grab the smaller image and use it as your MSN icon!
Now we need a naming contest or something. My suggestion….Udders the Cow.
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I don’t know what happened but recently and suddenly my Outlook junk-mail filtering became insufficient. My mailboxes were filling up with spam and Outlook wasn’t throwing it away for me. Since I routinely get over 100 spam messages Read More
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The new logo for DevCow, after some rapid in-house development, is nearly done. Brendon and I would like to thank Jervis E. for his hard work on the image.
We would like to point out that all work was done from scratch using the new beta version Read More
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After the user group meeting last night, nine of us went to the local Miller Ale House for some food, drink, and conversation. The conversations I participated in were wide ranging and free flowing. I’m going to bring up two of them Read More
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Last night, 68 people gathered to watch Brendon Schwartz give an introductory presentation about the upcoming SharePoint 2007 technologies. Brendon had a lot of interest in the topic from the audience, and an especially inquisitive pair had a bunch Read More
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