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  • Multiple IIS/Web apps installed on same server -or- Stop Peeing in My Cheerios!

    The company I work for sells a shrink-wrapped webserver/sql server application. I've worked with a couple customers who are having performance problems with our application and it amazes me all the other IIS applications they have running on the same box. In one situation, the company is running a Java...

  • Easter Egg apps?

    I'm toying around with a graphical game app I wrote a couple years ago in VB. The game is sort of a tetris/bubble-style game and everyone I've given the game to gets caught up in it. I've resurrected the app since I ordered the book “ Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start“ that I blogged about earlier...

  • New book (to me) - Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start

    The book Managed DirectX 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming by Tom Miller showed up yesterday. This is really a fun read for me, I won't be using DirectX in my current position - it's just something I've wanted to learn. I'm not a game programmer or 3d graphics expert (by a long shot), but I...

  • Creating a database during a setup application

    Has anyone performed the creation of a SQL Server 2000 database during a .msi setup (created using Visual Studio .NET)? If so, did you role your own installer add-on or use someone elses? What product did you use?

  • random thoughts on wikis replacing newsgroups

    I think we're starting to see wikis encroach on newsgroup territory, but some development of these types of wikis need work. Newsgroups are so 90's I've always found newsgroups to be disjointed, difficult to search and post followup is sketchy at best. Half the time you end up with answers from people...

  • The changing landscape - relating a Don Box post about training

    Don Box blogged about getting together with Martin Gudgin and Ted Pattison recently. In the post, he talks about the changed landscape in the training arena - how training has become commoditized, platform vendors are driving information and what he calls the 'Google Effect' (questions can be answered...

  • 10 Tools for .Net Developers

    Here's an article from the latest MSDN magazine - I've been waiting for the web publication. The article is titled “ Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now ” by James Avery. He lists a nice range of tools and it's worth reading.

  • Nice SQL Server - App Dev Article

    Here's a nice article by Roman Rehak in Visual Studio magazine listing 10 things to consider when writing SQL Server applications. He lists some good common sense considerations and approaches here.

  • SDTimes article - McNealy takes another beating

    SDTimes has an article asking “ Is Sun Toast?” I think it's interesting for the press to finally be seeing Sun as out-of-sync with their chosen markets. Or as the management-speak in the article states - “they have deep structural conflicts in all their markets.” I'd like to hear...

  • Development is fun once again

    I've had this feeling over the past couple months, and I'm just getting to the point of writing it down. I was talking to a friend I worked with on a project back in ’97 and it struck a chord - development is fun again. Not to say I ever haven't enjoyed developing, but I think the "fun and cool...

  • Postcards from the Edge - funny dev story

    Back in '97 I was at VCDC - Orlando where Jim McCarthy was giving a “developer night” presentation. (How I think he got the engagement is another funny story... but I'll keep on track here.) Toward the end of the discussion he's talking about the things that are done in desparation to ship...

  • Backing away from MSMQ - this time

    Earlier , I blogged that I was looking at MSMQ to perform message delivery within our application. Given our application is shrink-wrap and runs in a variety of computing environments (few of which have ActiveDirectory, much less MSMQ installed), I decided to shy away from that product. MSMQ is a good...

  • Picking a development conference

    I'm researching conferences and VSLive looks to be the largest, but I'm wondering if it's the best. It used to be that WinDev East/West was the most technically deep conference, but without the likes of Box, Gudgin, et al. I'm not too enthused about it - unless I hear otherwise. I'm looking for 3 things...

  • Linux code-bloat - interesting editorial

    Bob Marr wrote an interesting editorial on Linux code-bloat. I've been seeing people blogging their moves to dust off the old machines and put linux on them. With the latest distributions, they're recommending 256MB and a minimum 800mhz processor. I remember when I could run linux on my old 32MB P166...

  • .Math .92 Release

    I posted the .Math .92 release tonight. This release includes NUnit-based testing code. I am at the point of debating taking the project out of Beta, but I figure I'll let the product sit for the time being. This gives people time to test and report on the product. I'm currently content with where the...
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