Welcome to stevienova.com. Since 2004, I have enjoyed blogging about programming, business intelligence, SharePoint, Microsoft, Google, Apple and everything to do with technology. Thoughts on life, the world or my new favorite brew, may also be shared. I currently work at Trek Bicycle Corporation, managing both the BI team and .NET software dev groups. The opinions on this blog are solely my own.
I live in Sun Prairie, WI with my girlfriend and our 2 year old daughter. Besides my love for family and technology, I am passionate about music. I play the piano, guitar and I also sing. Everyday I learn something new, and I hope to share it with you.
Emergency Broadcast: Last week, I stumbled across a “legacy” system. Small system, few tables, few stored procs, few web pages that let users manage it. The main table had about 40k rows in it, nothing huge. This system gets used sparingly. Reports of the main page of the system taking 5+ minutes to load, or…
With the recent hack on Zappos.com where usernames and “cryptographically encoded” (not encrypted?) passwords were taken, it’s time to take warning. Other sites have gotten hacked in the past years as well, and there are ones you don’t even know about. It is kind of scary. I, like many have been guilty of using same…
This last week I have been using Waze on my iPhone. What is Waze? Well, it is a free “social” GPS turn by turn app. Since iOS doesn’t have built in turn by turn, it is left up to the market to fill the gap. There are the big players out there TomTom, etc but…
Not huge on “year end” or “goal” posts.. or is that goalposts? but last year I did a 2011 and Beyond post, so I figured I would do one this year. Of course it is 2 days late, as I was on the road and kind of disconnected from Dec 23rd until Jan 1st. But…
2012 is going to be a big year in the SQL world. No, the world isn’t going to end. SQL 2012 should get released by Microsoft, hopefully in the first half (cross your fingers for the first quarter!) of the year. Great! But many out there are now on SQL 2005, or 2008, or 2008…
Previously I wrote about the types of bugs that might come up during a sprint and dealing with them. This post is more on the backlog of bugs your project may “acquire”. Most software, if not all, has some kind of bugs. They crop up over time, causing users pain, maybe throwing errors, logic errors,…
Friday as I was leaving work, I noticed a small 1 pixel line vertically directly in the middle of my iPhone 4S that I just activated about 1.5 weeks earlier. WTF? Thought something was on my glasses, rebooted, restored, etc, etc, still was there. Wasn’t a software issue, definitely hardware. Brought it directly to the…
I just blogged about Google Reader changes, and even though I will continue to use Google Reader, I am going to try a different workflow for “sharing” items. I picked up the domain myshareditems.com and pointed at a Posterous space. I can then use send to functionality in Google Reader to “share” items to that…
As anyone who uses Google Reader knows already. They have changed. They changed for the worse. Design is somewhat horrible, removed features, etc. Sharing is not there anymore. You can +1 and then Share to G+. Ability to share to an RSS feed is gone. After using Google Reader for like 4 years and reading…
Last weekend, the SharePoint admin and I went up to the Twin Cities to hit up SharePoint Saturday. It was a good time (ScarePint the night before) and then 4 sessions and networking. Some good content on caching, silverlight vs HTML5, Performance Point and then Visualizations in SharePoint. The sessions were OK, the people were…