Have you ever wanted to quickly mockup software, website, iPhone app, etc? Most people do it on paper, or try something in Visio, or Word, or even Excel!!! But they just lack that feeling of what they want you to build. I was looking around on the web and stumbled upon Balsamiq Mockups
I download the [...]
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Today I received an email asking to some extent best practices on development with SQL Server Integration Studio (SSIS) and Business Intelligence Developer Studio (BIDS) in a team environment. Here is part of the email:
Me and another DBA belong to the same team, we have a SQL server with SSIS running. We use the SSIS [...]
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Add /nosplash to the end of your visual studio shortcuts..
also you can also go to tools->options and change the startup to an empty environment to speed up open times
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Recently, in May 2008, I took a position with Stratagem. Though the summer I worked for 2 places as a consultant, KHS in Waukesha, and The Dept. Of Regulation and Licensing (DRL) in Madison.
A little history. I was full time for W3i around 2 years, and then went independent for about a year, then as [...]
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Was thinking about this today. You can now write Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations and the like all online (Google Docs, Zoho, etc, etc). You can record video straight to websites through your webcam, you can video conference directly through the web.
Visual Studio in the Cloud:
Why can’t you code directly into the web? [...]
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When to code to interfaces? In my opinion only when you have to “INTERFACE” with a 3rd party component, or some external piece you might have to interact with. Writing an interface for every concrete class seems way to redundant. It is probably easier to convert a concrete class to an interface when you need [...]
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At my new gig, I am working on a project that is ASP.NET with an Oracle Database backend. Today I ran into an error.
Data provider internal error(-3000) [System.String]
What does this error mean? Heck if I know, its a generic error basically telling you that something is wrong with your connection to the database more than [...]
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Well, I haven’t posted in a while. Still busy as ever. Was up north for the 4th and my 10 Year reunion. Pics are on Flickr.
Anyways, this post is about a “Good Memory”, or even better, the ability to memorize things. Memorization.
So what does memorization have to do with anything? Well, as far as [...]
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Dates are fun. See, by default most dates come out like 5/6/2008. But computers, and programs like them formatted as 05/06/2008. That way, all the dates, no matter what month or day, are all the same length, cool huh?
Well, in Reporting Services, if you have a date field coming back in a dataset, and you [...]
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The other day, Microsoft came out with “Microsoft Pro Photo Tools” which allows you to geocode your photos. It is a pretty cool app, but there are some things that I wonder, like why didn’t they just build this functionality into Windows Live Photo Gallery?
Anyway’s, with any new thing I download and play around with, [...]
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