January 2008 - Posts
On the edge of Windows Server 2008 being officially released I found out what has happened to the last Windows 2003 Server. You can too at www.loneserver.com . Sort of tells the tale of how fast our industry moves. It seems like just yesterday I was setting
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I am sort of disappointed to say the latest version of SQL Server will release in Q3 this year , which is not next month like I thought. So hold off on your upgrade plans for now. I am excited about this release. There are many new features I am waiting
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Thanks to everyone who attended the event this afternoon. Sorry about the technical glitches, but remember the Get Ready for SQL 2008 presentations will be available on the site for the next year so you can view it anytime you want. I have posted the
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One of my favorite tools is available for Visual Studio 2008, Refactor 2008 . If you do not know what Refactor is, it is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that makes it very easy to refactor your code. That means make your code more manageable.
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Kudos to Josh Carlisle for stepping up to the plate and helping an attendee at the MSDN event having an epileptic seizure. The gentleman was having a pretty severe attack and fortunately Josh has a medic background from his military days. He was able
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So continue my entries on turning off annoying features of Windows 2003 Server, I also recently figured out how to turn off the Shutdown Event Tracker. This is the annoying dialog that pops up whenever you choose to restart or shutdown the machine. I
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One of the annoying things I have had to encounter is working from a Windows server and trying to surf the web. What you find are a constant barrage of dialogs asking to add the site to a list of allowed sites. I hate this, I know why they turn this on
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I have been spending a lot of time over the past few months rebuilding my knowledge with SharePoint. So fair warning you will start seeing some entries on how to work with SharePoint. But next month Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2008 releases to the public.
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Last week I recorded a session for SQL Magazine's 'Get Ready for SQL 2008' virtual event next Thursday. I actually made a post about the event on January 2nd . I had not been contacted about making a recording at that point, so this was a great honor.
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First I never got a chance to thank Andy Leonard for coming to TRINUG last week and showing us how to Unit test our SQL Server databases. I know I have pondered this in the past but never really got the nerve up to actually do it. Andy went over the basic
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I think this is pretty cool. I played SimCity some in college and then more after I got out in the real world to get some escape. But the original creator is about to release the SimCity source code into the wild . While the code is in old fashion C++
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A long while back I wrote an article on Domain Registration . I have been registering domains for about a decade at this point. I manage domain registration for many of my clients and I use OPENSRS as my registrar. I have never really like Network Solutions
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I know this is late notice, but my friend and Solid Quality Mentor peer will be speaking at tonight's TRINUG meeting. He will be covering testing databases using Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. Andy is the author of several books, pertinent
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A recent InfoWorld article, by Bill Snyder, points out that Java is quickly becoming outdated , so much so that it calls Java the new Cobol. It goes on to point out several times that .NET is quickly replacing Java as the platform of choice. I am not
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This is just too funny not to share with everyone! http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080107/bill-gates-last-day-microsoft-video/
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I never, and I mean never use the System.Web.UI.Page class as the class I inherit my Web Forms. I have a base class that I inherit from the Page class that has a set of methods and properties that I reuse many times over. Often I create more classes that
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I want to personally invite you to our upcoming SQL Server 2008 Virtual Event. I’m excited about this event sponsored by SQL Server magazine and featuring some of my fellow Solid Quality Mentors. It features keynote address and additional tracks for specialized
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Well 2007 is behind us and now we enter 2008 and so far things have started off pretty well. This morning I received the ASP.NET MVP award. If you are not familiar with the MVP award yet it is an honor bestowed by Microsoft based on community activity.
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