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A rose by any other name… Each and every one of the 1,000s at chicago botanic garden were just spectacular!
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Bell’s Palsy — the onset
I experienced the onset of Bell’s Palsy over the past two days. I will blog this experience as time goes on. Here is the timeline of my onset, which as it happens is rather textbook. Tue. 4/8 Metra commuter service business blocked me from my daily bike-train ride to work, so I chose to ride…
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FUD all over again… This time with Testing!
Well, Jamie Cansdale has been getting heat over time from M$ over TestDriven.Net, formerly NUnitAddin. M$ turned up the heat over the last week, and seemingly put it to HIGH yesterday. Ian Ringrose simplified the discussion : “Is it safe for me as a developer without a large legal department to work with Microsoft technology?…
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Pros & Cons – Rails vs. .NET Study
I’m debating between moving my career in one of two ways : Rails Study ruby on rails, leave Microsoft development, move my career in a new direction. I feel immediate happiness in this endeavor. Pros Test-driven development “baked in” to the development software Installation and environment setup is free. No extra computer is required. Ruby…
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SSIS Package Loader – MSDB Folders and Configuration Adherence
Here is a 1-2-3 for building your own VB.NET 2.0 Console application that will allow the upload of SSIS packages to SQL Server storage in the MSDB folder of your choice. The process also allows correct operation of XML Configurations on the packages (other configurations should work too, not tested by me in production though).…
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SSIS IsBig… Really Big… I mean HUGE!
I’ll be blogging some on SSIS as I now have a new gig slinging data hither and yon. Duck, you don’t want to get a DT_I8 in the face. So, today I was bitten by the IsBig flag on DataFlow Aggregate Transformation. This flag is notated in the BOL: A column may contain numeric values…
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New world, new information
Well, after a 20 year separation from teh Cult of Mac, I have finally returned. It is nice to see the tight tight integration of EVERYTHING on the Mac. While all things round and sweet are looking chipper, my former web hosting is dead and gone. I recovered a few posts, all others are basically…
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Sexy is only Skin Deep in Software
So I just watched the “5 minute video” by Iron Designer for .NET Very sexy. Very very sexy. As an MSDN subscriber (thanks to my corporate sponsors employers) and MCP (SQL Designer test or something, I’ve forgotten), this is very enticing… AND .NET has failed me in several situations where I was trying to do…
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That’s War … and that’s why I hate it.
Jim Wallis recalls a conversation with his father about the aftermath of Hiroshima in “Rubble of War” His father recalls seeing a small girl of 5 or so and realizing that she will likely die from radiation, hunger, or injuries. “That’s War”, he said, ” and that’s why I hate it.” Agreed 100%.
Got any book recommendations?