Remember Arnold Horshack in Welcome Back Kotter? He always wanted to called on to prove that he was smart. Problem was, he was usually wrong and the teacher got sick of calling on him. I recently met a developer like that. I was visiting a client and was educating the development team on the steps they […]
Read MoreDespite the lack of a cohesive deployment plan, I upgraded to dasBlog 1.8 to go along with my new hosting service and am glad I did. This fixed a bug that I was having with page redirection and the release also sports several new themes. The team that makes dasBlog is volunteer, so I can’t […]
Read MoreThis book was a welcome departure from my recent Jack Higgins marathon. My wife recommended this book to me after reading, practically insisting that I read it. In order to explain why she insisted, I should tell you the both my son and I have Asperger’s Syndrome, which is a disorder on the Autistic spectrum. His situation […]
Read MoreLet me start this by noting that I have never seen nor used Perforce, but I understand from those on my team who have that it is basically one kick-butt source control system. That being said, how kick-butt can a source control system truly be? Isn’t it somewhat akin to saying, “Did you see that muffler […]
Read MoreI am now neck deep into my second attempt to sell my Bronco on eBay. The first attempt went great! Just have a look. Yep, it sold for more than I could have hoped, $4450. Unfortunately, it was a fake account that was just maliciously bidding. Now, I ask you, why in the hell would someone do that? Anyway, […]
Read MoreWhen I get stressed out from work, kids, whatever, there is one thing that I know will help me relax. No, besides that. Read anything that Jack Higgins has ever written. The man is an absolute genius. Jack Higgins writes the lamest, most perfect, obvious, creative, pulp, genius, trash novels that I have ever picked […]
Read MoreElegantCode.com has been running on one of my kids old machines for the last 2 years and was graciously plugged into the DMZ of my employer with no virus protection to speak of other than ISA and certainly no backups being performed. Since I have a very low tolerance for system administration activities and an […]
Read MoreWell, Microsoft is apparently at least trying to stuff rags into the holes in their Windows. According to this article, MS is launching a new enterprise server system for doing virus scans or something like that. They also have created the “SecureIT Alliance” to ensure that it’s virus checking lackeys like Symantec will still be […]
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