September 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:35 PM

My Personal Toolkit - A Minor Update and Upgrade

As anyone in the software industry knows, especially those that use the latest and greatest, having an up to date and powerful toolkit is vital for the job.  Without a good personal toolkit a developer can be rendered almost useless or at least lost
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 8:26 AM

QCon Battle!!! ARGH!

So a lot of things are going on in my life at the moment, causing any travel that I need to take outside of the north western US to be very difficult.  One event coming up that is driving me crazy, because I'd really like to go, is the QCon Event
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:36 PM

Camtasia Studio and Force Direction and Mitigated Queue Path Finding

Camtasia Studio - Take 10I've started working a bit more on my personal transit projects but I've also started playing around with Camtasia Studio some more.  The later activity has been based around me needing flash and other video formats for an
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Monday, September 17, 2007 10:04 AM

Figuring Out Versus Making a Solution :: A Small Epiphany

I had a kind of epiphany about "figuring out" a solution to a problem versus "making" a solution to a problem.  Let's break out the two a little bit just so I'm not rambling to the world without some context. What I stumbled into thought about is
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 1:33 PM

Another Entry of Keeping Up

The Microsoft Windows SDK Blog is an awesome way to keep up with the SDK.  If you haven't downloaded the SDK get over there post haste and get r' done! The latest SDK for Vista (VS 05) is a must have.  With the WCF, WF, and other tools and their
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:57 PM

Team Foundation Server :: Tip O' The Day!

These are two great habits that help merge conflict issues when working in TFS. #1 When you get latest and then you check out files to start coding in, always look back and see if the project or even the solution file has been checked out. As many know,
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:34 AM

BI, OLAP, ETL, and Random Notes on the Subject

I had a few conversations, actually more like 6 different conversations, pertaining to BI (Business Intelligence), OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), Cube or UDM (Unified Dimensional Model) Processing, ETL (Extract Transform Load), normalization and
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:31 PM

Euphoria Shipped!

I got an e-mail tonight just a few minutes ago, I am absolutely stoked beyond all recognition.  I jumped out of my chair and scared the cats even, and I think my girl friend thought I'd busted a gasket too.  The Inspiron 1720, Intel Core 2 Duo
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Friday, September 07, 2007 1:44 PM

Dell Laptop Delayed, FOR 3 MORE WEEKS!?!?!?!?!

About 3 weeks ago I ordered a pretty nice Dell Laptop.  A few days ago, on the day it was supposed to ship, I got a message from Dell that it had been delayed.  I read up on their Dell2...whatever blog and found out they had some quality issues
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Sunday, September 02, 2007 3:35 PM

TFS Frustration, Returning to Subversion

After almost a year of frustration with personal and professional projects utilizing TFS (Team Foundation Server), I have decided to return my personal projects to Subversion.  The time, effort, and the costs are far to high for me to use TFS on my personal
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