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My boss convinced me this week to demo the new features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to our team, so that they can get a basic handle on why I think SQL Server 2000 should be buried. The big day is on 27 January, and I have 45 minutes in which to make theContinue reading SQL Server 2008 R2 demo
It’s 2010, and has been for two weeks. I have not made much progress since I last checked in on this. Perhaps I can use some of this weekend to catch up. The snag I ran into in December, which is holding up the release, relates to a Microsoft DLL change between Windows XP andContinue reading ShutOff 2010
Tonight, I completed a second conversion of someone else’s Simple PHP Blog to WordPress. As regular readers know, I developed a C# Windows app to do this for myself, last year. However it is certainly not production-ready, so two separate websites had to be assisted manually with the conversion. Their common issue is that theyContinue reading Another Simple PHP Blog converted
I had to validate my data recovery today. Imagine my surprise that they recovered a Mac partition. This drive was my external Mac drive *before* it became an internal NTFS drive, after which I copied my data to it, at which point it failed. So tonight is going to be interesting as I go deeperContinue reading Drive recovery
Everyone has a thing they don’t mention, but it can consume a large part of their life. In my case, it is a planned emigration. The process is arduous and time-consuming, and we happen to be on the fast track. It’s been almost a year, and looks to eclipse the twelve-month barrier if the visasContinue reading That thing we don’t mention
The first thing you’ll notice is the name: ShutOff 2000. I decided that “ITS ShutOff Professional” didn’t roll off the tongue as easily. Plus, there’s so much branding inherent in the original name, that changing it seemed foolish. I wrote quite extensively on this new .NET version in a recent post, as well as theContinue reading ShutOff 2000 is almost here
Robert Scoble joined the party now, pointing out what Brendon and I wrote about two weeks ago – managing data across several cloud computing vendors. Nice to see I’m still a trend setter! Thanks, Brendon!
My and Brendon’s article on Matching Business Intelligence With Cloud Computing is available from here.
Work has been continuing apace on the all-new ShutOff. Featuring a console application at its core, ITS ShutOff is built on the Microsoft .NET framework. My language of choice is, of course, C#. What I’m really excited about is the modular way it is built. The console application is fully featured, which means that absolutelyContinue reading Coming soon: ShutOff 2000’s replacement
“Thank you again for agreeing to participate in the upcoming in-depth telephone interview. I want to emphasize the importance of your opinions to our client, Microsoft. “You are one of only a few participants invited to take part in this research and your participation is extremely important. “You have been specially screened and qualified. IfContinue reading Microsoft Telephonic Interview