November 2007 - Posts

Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:32 PM

Mr. Guthrie Rolls The .NET Road Map

I'm not even going to write much on this road map topic, I'm just looking forward to the ASP.NET MVC.  In almost every application I have lined up, even a lot of the prospective business intelligence work I have lined up this pattern architecture
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:21 PM

How to Be Heard?

In almost every business, even when there are only two participants, there is always a need to communicate.  The emphasis of teaching others to speak well, write well, and in general communicate their point clearly and decisively is very important. 
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:00 PM

Business Card Titles?

I was just thinking of what description or title I should put on my next iteration of business cards.  My current title reads as "Software Architect and Solutions Developer".  I really like the "Solutions Developer" part because I've always
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:52 AM

Entrepreneurial Stumptown Geek Meet #1

I strolled down today to meet everyone at the first Stumptown Coffee Meet of entrepreneurial geek types.  I didn't get to stay too long, but had a good time chit chatting and meeting everyone.  To all my readers, I would highly suggest swinging
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:25 AM

Ha! Geek Humor Roxorz!

Hat tip to the language war by David Rupp.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:53 AM

Martin Fowler, DSL, and the "Up and Up".

Martin Fowler is currently working on a book in reference to DSL, Domain Specific Languages.  A preview is available on his site. SOA Governance seems to be the debate of the century in the advanced development community. An interesting and scathing
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Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:29 PM

Windows XP SP2 Needed on Vista? :: Tip o' The Day

I found the solution Kevin Dente's blog.  Hat tip!  If you run into the problem, the solution is really easy. The key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers called %tempdir%\setup.exe, DELETE
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:59 PM

Visual Studio 2008 is Finally Installed!

I finally got Visual Studio 2008 installed and running after the little download debacle yesterday.  I loaded it on a virtual machine so it should be super easy to break things and just start clean.  My next moves will be to start playing around with
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:24 AM

BIDS Helper, "I Found My MDX!"

I was complaining recently about getting MDX a week or so ago.  I wanted MDX generated from my Cube in BIDS.  Well I found a kick butt tool that helps one do that.  Not only does it help with getting the MDX, but it also provides printer friendly dimension
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:57 AM

Jilted MSDN Subscribers

Yo Microsoft!  Get your act together, that was a rude, crude thing you did yesterday!  VS 2008 is release with .NET 3.5 my ass!  I went scurrying to my MSDN subscription to download that sucker and really get to reviewing the new material - HANDS ON!
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Monday, November 19, 2007 1:53 PM

Analysis Services Performance Testing and Artsy Things

I'm on a couple new quests as of this week.  One is to find a decent way to performance test SSAS without buying or putting in place large servers similar to what would be used in a production environment.  The second is to figure out how to have JavaScript
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Monday, November 19, 2007 1:01 PM

VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Released, Hallelujah

Dibs to ScottGu of course.  It is released!
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Monday, November 19, 2007 11:59 AM

Keeping Up With ASP.NET MVC Framework

In my always continuing efforts to keep up with the coolest frameworks, architecture, and other tidbits, I rolled into these "must review/read" how-to entries from Scott Hanselman, Scott Guthrie, and Brad Abrams.  If you are planning to do any ASP.NET/C#
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Friday, November 16, 2007 4:36 PM

Vagrant Troubleshooting

For all your high tech troubleshooting needs! Ok, here is the theory.  I've seen it with every decent technical person I've ever worked with.  The easiest way to troubleshoot something is just to "show" someone what you're working on, and talk the problem through while you're doing it.  ...so...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:38 PM

T-SQL Date Range Usage :: Tip o' The Day

Often times a date range is used in a where clause with a start date and an end date that are the same.  The dates however are entered with the intention of getting that single day worth of data.  By default T-SQL will look at that but not give
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:00 AM

Cube Design Best Practice :: Tip o' The Day

Do not put too many parent-child dimensions in a cube. This tip is magnified when the dimension contains custom rollups or unary operators.  Yes, some of you might say, "but they are so powerful!"  Well with power comes responsibility!  In this case the
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:03 AM

More New News and BAD Standards Use by SOA Standards Company

So it really isn't news, but VS.NET 2008 is really coming from what I can tell.  I'm stoked about this, I'm really looking forward to doing Silverlight work too.  I think I'll probably even hack together a solution in VS 2005.  I've seen
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Monday, November 12, 2007 3:16 PM

Multi-Cube

So I got to thinking, and after searching around a bit, I didn't find much, "A blog post is in order!"  So here is what I was researching. Where and when is it a good idea to start breaking out to multiple cubes? What is the best practice about splitting
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Friday, November 09, 2007 10:43 AM

Numeric Keys RULE! :: Tip O' The Day

When you're developing attributes that have a bunch of members, let's say more than a million (1,000,000,000), you should definitely use numeric keys.  Don't use strings or anything like that or you will suffer delays.  With business intelligence cube
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Friday, November 09, 2007 10:40 AM

Lacking MDX Contemplations

So here I am plugging in some dimensions and getting some measures in Visual Studio when I stumble on the fact that I can't get the MDX from what I'm doing.  What should I use to do this? One tool I know that will get the MDX for a report is ProClarity,
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:58 PM

Bitten By the Copy+Paste Membership oh Dunce World

Thanks James, for pointing out I'm a dickhead.  You saved me at least a few more minutes of troubleshooting!  SqlprofileProvider is in the Profile namespace branch unlike EVERY other membership provider in ASP.NET 2.0. I guess I'll be the 5th
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:17 PM

Rockin' It At WebTrends

As usual, the first week or three at a new position is very relaxed or at least somewhat calm.  Which for me leads to a bit of boredom, but I always know that just around the corner of being the FNG (F-ing New Guy) is the fast paced action of the
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:37 PM

Pretend T-SQL BI Queries

Often times there is no cube, no OLAP, no BI plan but someone wants reports that provide rollup data, data slices, sums, and even dimensional representations that are oriented toward the BI world.  Of course building these in SQL is possible, even easy
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:18 PM

10-Second Usability

I've always know there had to be some rule or logic that someone has laid out for usability.  Especially from a marketing perspective.  Recently I took to reading a few pages of Web Analytics Demystified by Eric T. Peterson.  While reading through the
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Monday, November 05, 2007 9:56 AM

Oh Freaking Sweetness! November Release Date!

So Microsoft has promised a November release date for .NET 3.5 and VS 08.  I'm stoked that it will (could?) be out by end of month!  The funny thing is I found out by reading about a SQL Server blog entry.  In that entry Denis Gobo is wondering,
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Friday, November 02, 2007 10:04 PM

Tom Bihn, Hours Are No Good :(

As I wrote about a month and a half ago, I was going to go on a mission on one of my last days in Seattle to possibly purchase a Tom Bihn backpack and bay for my laptop. Well, because of their hours (10am-4pm) I wasn't able to get in to check them out
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:53 PM

Keeping Up With Web Analytics

More info on keeping up with the various aspects of the software industry.  Something, especially with the new job at WebTrends, that takes a decent amount of effort keeping up with is Web Analytics.  One major site that I can see myself reading is the
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:02 AM

Look! It's ME!

Oh dear, I'm famous!I got interviewed at VanPortlander!Now if only I could get interviewed at Willamette Weekly or the Mercury. 
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