I don’t remember the exact quote. Actually, I don’t know if she actually said it aloud, or I could just read it in her eyes, but my wife recently let me know (in her own special way) that I spend a heck of a lot of time on my computer with very little to show for it. I’m [...]
Over the last few years, most of my development efforts have been focused on financial applications. Often it is my job to make the analysts’ lives easier by providing online tools to help better manage their data. But as many of you know, financial analysts love spreadsheets and the majority of information is stored and [...]
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Not so long ago, one of our applications failed when we tried to handle the 32,768th user entry. Though the database was able to manage the request, the application held onto the row’s identity in an Int16 property. The overwhelming response to the error was “That was really, really dumb.” I tend to agree on a couple of [...]
With the attention that Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google are getting for agreeing on a standard sitemaps protocol, I figured it was probably time I got one in place which meets standard found on sitemaps.org. Though I’m sure I would have had a lot of fun using the Google Sitemap Generator Python scripts recommended by Google Webmaster Tools, [...]
I picked up a new development box the other day and I spent most of yesterday (heck, it was ALL of yesterday) getting the machine configured. Nearly all software installed without any issues except for SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. After completing the installation, I planned to validate the installation by first checking to see [...]
I had the opportunity to work with Jon Galloway on his Data Dictionary Creator tool recently. It was a good time. We just released Data Dictionary Creator version 1.2 to CodePlex. Version 1.2 adds a lot of great features: Added documentation of tables as well as columns Changed Excel export from HTML based to XMLSpreadsheet [...]
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All individual software programs of Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate including Microsoft Office Professional 2007, Visio 2007, Groove 2007, Project 2007, Infopath 2007 and OneNote 2007 software can now be downloaded directly from Microsoft Technet or MSDN Subscriber website as ISO images. Link to Downloading Microsoft [...]
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Recently, we had the opportunity to do some clean up work on a legacy web app. At the top of our list was to refactor PDF report rendering to the browser. The typical application use case was as follows: User enters data. User submits data. User requests PDF report. Application queues report. Application processes report. Application stores the [...]