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Oct
2005
Miserable Failure
Google “Miserable Failure” and check out the first hit. Ha ha ha ha. Here, let me help you.
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Oct
2005
The Arnold Horshack Developer
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 […]
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Oct
2005
dasBlog Upgrade
Despite 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 […]
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Oct
2005
Source Control Systems
Let 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 […]
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Oct
2005
eBay, the Drama
I 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, […]
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Oct
2005
New Hosting Provider
ElegantCode.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 […]
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Oct
2005
Microsoft Client Protection
Well, 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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