If there is such a thing as divine retribution, then I’m pretty sure that most of the people on Microsoft’s SSIS product team will be spending eons merging SSIS packages. I took the following screenshot from an issue I reviewed at my old job. The developer who resolved the issue only made two property changes [...]
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Thanks to my new employer, I’m now happily a member of the three monitor club (better late than never). Three monitors are good, but three monitors plus WinSplit Revolution is freakin’ awesome. Snapping windows from monitor to monitor and resizing them from quadrant to quadrant with a quick keystroke actually makes me feel like this [...]
Here’s an update to my Essential Tool list that I published last year. I highlighted all of the additions and changes in red. I’m in JP‘s Nothin’ But NET course this week, so I’m guessing that I’ll have many new ones to add shortly. However, I’ll probably also be so worn out from the class [...]
I blame it on being forced to sit through one too many episodes of my wife’s favorite TV show, What Not To Wear, but I finally became inspired to retire my old, tired-looking default Visual Studio color scheme in favor of one of the hipper ones with a black background. It turned out to be [...]
I just submitted a feature request to Microsoft. I thought that the perhaps the Windows Explorer file copy dialog could be a bit more truthful and instead of displaying something like this whenever a user is trying to copy something over 100 MB in size through Windows Explorer… …it should instead show something like this… [...]
If you’re looking for an external, non-open source home for your code or a light-weight, web-based project management tool, I highly recommend using Unfuddle. Actually, up until recently I wasn’t all that crazy about this site. We had been using it at work for the last year as a project management tool for external clients [...]
My heart skipped a few beats the other day due to that awful hard drive clicking sound that usually precedes a hard disk failure. So, in honor of the impending machine rebuild that I will likely face soon, I thought I would create my own essential tool list to document my current thoughts on the [...]
In the spirit of LEAN and attempting to trim waste from existing processes, I’ve been pondering the optimal amount of effort to spend doing mockups lately. By mockups, I just mean a quick and dirty approximation of what the GUI will look like once development is complete. Mockups are usually considered disposable artifacts that are [...]
Keeping track of my passwords has been a nagging problem for me for a long time, but I only recently got around to doing something about it. I’m ashamed to admit it, but up until now I’ve relied on a few popular but extremely insecure strategies to manage my various online identities. Reusing passwords – [...]
Blogging communities like GeeksWithBlogs offer the advantage of a pre-established readership, free hosting, and no hassles when it comes to setting up and maintaining your blog. Unfortunately, you also give up a lot of control when you become part of a large blogging community and ultimately miss out on the basic joys of tinkering. For [...]
