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April 2006 - Posts
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Today was my last day at work for a while. I've got family coming in town starting tomorrow so I took off Thursday, April 27th through Tuesday, May 16. For those who count, that's a total of 18 days off of work. The last time I had this Read More
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It took a few days but I finally got a digital copy of the famous Tony Orlando signing a copy of his autobiography for me. Tony was really nice about signing two copies - one to my mother (where he wrote that I'm a credit to her, although Read More
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Check out this blog posting detailing the name change for Monad. I personally love doing things on the command line and the ability to grant some real flexibility and power to the power users and administrators. Keep track of this new tool Read More
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May 3rd has officially been dubbed "Speech Server Day" here in Atlanta. Well...OK - not actually "officially". However, if you're interested in applications that you can talk to and can actually understand and talk back, check out the in town Read More
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Yes, we know. Comments on DevCow are temporarily broken. While we try to figure things out, if you have something important to tell us, feel free to send me (Matt) an e-mail Read More
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Tony Orlando is coming to my office for lunch tomorrow. Am I wrong or was he actually on the Love Boat with Charo? Read More
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This has to be the coolest new service I've heard of in a while. Lycos is offering a free home phone number that you can answer on your computer. This is awesome. This means that when you finally cut the wires and ditch your home Read More
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I just finished giving my presentation to 80 people. Not too shabby at all! Despite bizarre audio problems at the beginning and a moment where my phone rang and I got dumped off the call, things went well. I apparently got good reviews Read More
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Today is my first foray into the world of webcasts. I'm basically going to present the SharePoint 1, 2, 3! level 100 content at 3:30 today. The webcast is actually part of the INETA Live initiative and we're just ramping this up to begin delivering Read More
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This past Monday was a meeting of the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals, and we featured Karl Rissland, a Microsoft BizTalk technical specialist. Karl was a great presenter and I'm only sorry that I was so late getting the newsletter out because Read More
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Here's a weird one I've just encountered. I've got a user who connects to my 2000 SQL Server with MS Access to run some queries as part of an old program. This user has their ODBC connection set up specifying the 'sa' user. However, Read More
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I've upgraded MS Exchange 2003 to SP2 and installed a dozen critical security updates, a firmware update to the PERC/3 RAID array controller. Wicked fun! (That means I mostly sat around while little blue bars crawled across the screen, over Read More
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The wind up.... The pitch.... It's a triple!
I'm standing on third base right now. I managed to convince the other IT folks here at work that it makes more sense to use SharePoint as the basis for our Intranet rather than to build everything Read More
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Last night was a good evening. Kim and I met with a bunch of friends at Agnes and Muriel's for dinner. Agnes and Muriel's is a great Southern foods restaurant near the intersection of Monroe and Piedmont downtown. I can highly recommend Read More
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It's 7:45am Sunday morning and I'm at work. I don't really mind, I here to help upgrade some of the servers. I think my prime responsibility today is the Exchange server. That should be fun - I get to install Service Pack 2 and run Read More
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I just realized that I put up a post about Apress books (which I happen to think are great books from great authors) and I failed to mention one of the most innovative marketing campaigns I've ever seen come out of the publishing world. Time to Read More
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At the most recent SQL Server UG meeting, a guy came up to me and asked for a book recommendation. He was looking for the best possible SQL Server 2005 book, targeted at both developers and DBAs. I told him to check this one out:
What I Read More
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You Star Wars fans should love thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NE5elL30w4
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I just bought this sweet backpack from the Microsoft store. It's got room for a 17 inch laptop (although mine is only a 12 inch laptop) and a hard EVA shell that can help protect my varied assortment of smaller electronics. Despite my actually owning Read More
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I don't mean Google Ads or anything like that which would make money for me or this site. Instead I'm talking about the occasional coupon codes and promo deals I get from book publishers and software tools vendors. I was thinking of posting Read More
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I was on the verge of installing CAPTCHA controls for comments based on the volume of comment spam I was getting over the last several days when I noticed that Community Server 2.0 has configurable spam countermeasures built right in. Tweak a Read More
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Register here
Learn how you can build collaborative business solutions on Microsoft SharePoint by attending one of our upcoming Workplace Workshops. These free full day workshops provide a hands-on introduction to CorasWorks products with access Read More
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Uh oh - I'm in trouble. I forgot to tell Kim about this. I just remembered when I was talking to my buddy Frank up in Virginia. Random discussion lead to a revelation that I bought myself a new mouse for my laptop. I was tired Read More
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Make sure and check out the webcast for INETA members on WPF and WinForms. No registration is required, just attend the live meeting! Make sure and let your friends know about it.
Crossbow – Building WPF and Windows Forms hybrid applicationsMike Read More
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Kevin Kline, president of the PASS organization, came to Atlanta last night to present some Stored Procedure best practices. The slides will be available on the Atlanta MDF site soon, so I'm not going to try to repeat all of his material. Read More
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I actually HAVE to go eat lunch with him
He's here with his wife (pretty) and baby (cute and v. little) as well. I think we're having pizza and cake for lunch. Caio!EDIT: Edwin signing a CD and making a funny face while I act too cool to Read More
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I was watching Brendon work on a web page last night in a virtual PC, which brought me back to the times that I spent working in virtual machines. I don't have to do that any more as I'm currently only working on one version of a product at a time, but Read More
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I've noticed that I've been falling asleep at the wheel here. One of the very first things I did when I got a blog was to cover user group meetings in a fairly journalistic style. Does anyone miss that? Does anyone really read that stuff? If I was to Read More
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I’ve begun to post the speakers who have been accepted for presentations at the Atlanta Code Camp this May 13th. This list includes the speaker’s bio and a short summary of their proposed presentation. Please note that inclusion Read More
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The version of Telligent's Community Server web engine that runs DevCow.com has been upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0. I hope everyone finds this new version easy to use and better to look at. I swear at some point I'll develop a skin that makes Read More
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A while back I wrote a .NET wrapper around Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service. Well, truthfully, I adapted and enhanced one I found online. But the point it this – BITS works great when trying to send files up from Read More
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It's been a bad week for people I love. Last weekend I drove back to my home town, Augusta GA. The father of my childhood best friend passed away last Thursday after a long bout with a particularly aggressive lymphoma. He'd been sick Read More
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I'm always glad to get free stuff, especially when the stuff is cool stuff. I just got this neat tshirt from Sony Playstation for being a member of their Game Advisory Panel. What's that mean? It means I answer tons of surveys. Read More
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In case you haven’t heard yet, I am proud to announce that Matt was awarded the MVP award today. I think it is wonderful after all of his hard work. Great job and keep up the good work.
Check out his goober picture.
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=c92890bf-2fe2-4f1b-9f0b-4c09c8c240c7 Read More
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
Microsoft's Virtual Server is now a FREE download!
Signifying how important the virtualization market is, Microsoft has started to give away it's virtual server product. If you are a developer Read More
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Are you interested in presenting at the upcoming Atlanta Code Camp? If so, please head over to www.atlantacodecamp.com and download the Speaker Application. Fill it out and send it in for consideration. By consideration what we’re Read More
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