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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:42 AM

ByRef, ByVal, COM Objects, and Excel

I'm working on getting things into and out of Excel.  In one scenario I copy an Excel Range or Rows from one Excel Worksheet to a Worksheet in another Workbook.  This Workbook then acts as a storage repository for the Range of Rows and is saved
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Monday, June 02, 2008 7:39 PM

Dumbest Thing EVER!

First day working on the new project and what do I do?  I do about the dumbest thing someone could ever do!  I managed to fat finger the password, WRONG, into the password and verification password when setting up Windows XP on a brand new Dell
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:46 PM

Dell Inspiron 1720, High on BSODs and Random Fail

Will Apple come to rescue my productivity? I purchased a Dell Inspiron 1720 about 11-12 months ago.  It has been a perfectly awesome laptop until about 2-3 months ago.  The specs on the machine are decent, 2+ghz proc, dual core, 4 GB RAM, 160
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:54 PM

F*&! IE7

[RANT ON] Open Letter to Microsoft... I am thoroughly pissed at how ineffectively IE7 handles standard CSS, HTML, and ECMA Compliant JavaScript.  It is absolutely atrocious.  I recently put together a site that is compliant (it works in EVERY
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Monday, February 25, 2008 10:45 AM

SQL Server Analysis Services Authentication Freak Out

[Rant On] What is the deal really with the anti-user intuitive situation with analysis services when it decides that the data connection to a data source needs to use some arbitrary user authentication!  I had my SSAS cube set to process against
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:53 PM

A Quick Link to Mythical Agile Shortcuts

I often get into debates when a group or department attempts to implement Agile, then does a half ass job, then complains about how Agile failed.  One of the issues is exactly what Ross Pettit wrote about in his Agile Journal Article, Mythical Agile
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:07 PM

I've Returned, In My Mind, Back to Work

One of the notable things I heard at work today which I thought was just hilarious, is that Microsoft still spends significant time and effort publishing marketing crap with FLASH!!! I'm all ready to jump on the Silverlight band wagon, hell, I already
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:20 AM

Vista Slaughtered

Vista really is a lacking Microsoft Product.  I'm not sure what the hell happened in comparison to Windows 2000 and XP.  Both of those launches went rough, as usual, but not noticeably so.  Vista however is just a dog within the industry
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:13 PM

Error Message 666, The Evil Kills

"666    16    Maximum system-generated unique value for a duplicate group exceeded for table ID %d, index ID %d. Dropping and re-creating the index may fix the problem; otherwise use another clustering key." So today when
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Monday, December 10, 2007 1:00 PM

Deliver On Time or Working Software

It would be nice, and often can be done, a delivery of on time and working software.  The axiom of on time, working, or cost comes into play here.  I just want to discuss (and rant) a little about on time and working software. Sometimes during
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:58 PM

Word Posts, Vista Reload, and General Maintenance

I sat down Friday afternoon to unwind and play a little Supreme Command. Instead of being able to play, some program that came on my machine with the original load started working away. Of course this action was without my permission. It created a
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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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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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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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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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