Archives - November 2008
SQL Resources
Last week, we launched SQLFeeds.com , a community-moderated site focused on providing SQL developers and DBAs with high signal-to-noise SQL content. If you have a favorite source of SQL wisdom, please add it to the site’s feed list (which you can do anonymously from the home page). If you...
Programming is Just Typing
Well, OK, it’s not * just * typing, but fundamentally, typing has a lot to do with it. In fact, it wouldn’t be too great a stretch of the imagination for someone watching a room full of programmers to mistake them for a room full of writers, typists, dictation takers, or similar clerical staff...
Silverlight Resources
Today we’re launching SilverlightFeeds.com , an aggregate site moderated by community volunteers which pulls in useful Silverlight content from many talented bloggers. The site provides a nice one-stop shopping location for very high signal-to-noise ratio Silverlight content, without the typical...
Installing Windows Home Server
In a classic case of ensuring the barn door is closed after the animals have all left, I bought an HP MediaSmart EX470 Home Server last week for home backup purposes, and it arrived today. I decided to take a few pictures and generally document the experience. Scott Hanselman did a (probably much more...
Stories Too Big – Vertical Slices
I have a client who lists as one of the key challenges with implementing agile practices with their teams as managing to define user stories that are valuable but not too big. This is actually a very common challenge, and one that we run into frequently ourselves at Lake Quincy Media and with other...
CodeMash 2009 Sessions Announced
Actually they were announced a couple of days ago, but I’ve been a bit too busy to blog. Eventually these will make it up on the CodeMash web site , but for now they are only listed on the events’ mailing list . I’ve included the complete list below. CodeMash is a great developer event held...
Announcing AzureFeeds
VB MVP Serge Baranovsky created VBFeeds.com a few years ago, and shortly afterward he helped me create CSharpFeeds.com using a fork of the source code. I’ve had some interns working on that code off and on and we launched a new and improved version of CSharpFeeds around the end of the summer. ...
Updating Hosts In and Out of Office
We have a machine in the office that we use for source control, and it’s set up in DNS with a fully qualified name that points to the office’s external IP address. Of course, if you try and use that fully qualified name while you’re in the office, you can’t connect – you have to use the local 192...
Laptop Rebuild – Essential Apps
When we last saw our hero, he had fallen victim to an evil plot to disable his computer’s ability to boot up . After great efforts at recovery, eventually he was forced to concede defeat to Vista and reinstall everything from scratch. Let’s return now to see what’s in store in the next chapter...
Vista Cleanup May Corrupt OS And Prevent Boot
Ran into this gem yesterday. My intelide.sys file was corrupted and prevented Windows Vista from booting on my laptop. I found this forum and several others referencing the problem, which appears to be the result of running Vista Cleanup to free up space. A few days previously, Vista warned me that I...
DevReach 2008 Speaker Feedback
I've been posting feedback from my talks on my blog as a means of transparency as well as a way to get more feedback and hopefully improve my talks and topics. You can see some past posts here for instance. At any rate, a month or so ago I was in beautiful Bulgaria speaking at DevReach , and here's how...
Mac Ads and Vista Advertising
I'm sure many of you have seen the recent Mac ads continuing to poke fun at PCs and Vista. The latest ones are just too ironic for me not to comment on, though. Since Microsoft launched their very successful "I'm a PC" campaign a while back, the latest Mac ads are accusing Microsoft of devoting money...
Live ID to support OpenID
Last week Windows Live ID announced support for OpenID with the release of a Community Tech Preview (CTP) of their OpenID Provider. A growing number of sites have begun accepting OpenID as their means of authentication, and it's encouraging to see that Microsoft's Live ID will support this standard....
