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So most people are familiar with “projects”. Something you do, have an end goal, usually a budget, resources, plan, etc. Sometimes you have projects within projects. Like a good example may be thinking of the next version of Microsoft Windows as the main project and revamping solitaire for the next version as the “epic”. Your [...]

If you start at a new place, as a SQL Server Database Administrator (DBA), what is one of the first things you should do? In my opinion, after figuring out the key servers and instances running you need to support… is setting up alerts. By setting up alerts you can start to get an idea [...]

Ran across this today. Setting up a laptop, and one team we use Windows Live Messenger, the other Google Talk. I know there is Trillian, Digsby, etc, but I just wanted to use Windows Live Messenger, but still IM Google Talk contacts BuddyFuse integrates Google Talk and Twitter into Windows Live Messenger BuddyFuse to the [...]

Microsoft has published a site, PC vs Mac There is only one thing you have to know, everything else is fluff. You will never get a blue screen of death on a Mac. Oh, I got one last night on a Windows machine. With an xlsx half way open and not done yet. Lovely. done. [...]

You can whip out reports in SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) very quickly with the report builders (2.0 and 3.0 are money). But what should you remember to do each time, or information to get? Where does the data come from (GL, Sales, etc) – we could use a cube or datawarehouse, or staging, or [...]

Last week Flipboard informed me that their iPad app was ready for me to use (I have had it since day one, but their servers were overwhelmed). The premise is that it takes your Twitter and Facebook feeds and creates personal “magazines”. It has other aggregated/curated content from around the web as well. I don’t [...]

Good ideas are hard to stop from happening. After dorking around with Pivot Viewer, I was thinking of things I could “pivot”, and the iTunes App Store was one of them. No real API though, there are some out there that have created APIs, or you could scrape the web, etc but nothing solid. Looks [...]

Love the iPhone, really do. But I am pretty hardcode when it comes to apps and loading things and making it “work” hard. Every once in a while some rogue app goes off the wall and starts draining battery like crazy. Usually the only thing to do is restore phone. I have had to do [...]

Funny how you might not EVER use a given tool, and some days you might end up using it twice. Sysinternals Procmon was that tool today. It is the successor from old utils from Sysinternals – Filemon and Regmon. What does it do? It monitors all processes and services and watches what they are doing [...]

Most people have probably done this at least once in their lives.. You go to a restaurant and order a meal. The waitress is nice, comes over, gets your drinks, takes your order, checks up on you, refills, what not, brings out the meal, and woah, something is wrong, it is cold, bad, just something. [...]