[Sorry if my original posting of this was a little unreadable... My blog writer evidently didn't make the transit to the new OS all that well (see below for what I'm talking about)] I've had an interesting couple of months as a developer and a "Microsoft guy" (possibly "MS...

[UPDATE: I fixed the formatting on this post. I'm using the Firefox Deepest Sender plugin to write posts... I need to work with a bit more... sorry] So I have begun my first week at ASPSOFT. I work from home in case you didn't catch that from my previous posts on the subject (yes, I'm rubbing it in)...

So last week, Robert Scoble posted this blog entry . Robert comes clean with some stuff he has been given, and I would like tio do the same. First of all, if you see a review on this blog (or here ) by me then it's probably because someone gave me product. I have a couple resources for product. I am...

I hadn't seen this in any of the blogs I monitor, so I thought I should share. Parallels, Inc. has released their Parallels Workstation product . This is a complete virtualization solution much like Virtual PC, and VMWare (I know there are others). There are a couple cool things. They boast that they...

Well, at least the ones I've tried. Let's take a quick jump back down memory lane... something that Frans Bouma said to me way back here ( http://codebetter.com/blogs/jay.kimble/archive/2005/06/01/63937.aspx#63954 ) struck a chord. I don't know ORMs that well, and despite my misgivings over Dynamic SQL...

My biggest fear for my JAAJAX library is that it will be misused by someone to build an application in the browser that really should have been a full windows app. In fact I can almost guarantee someone will misuse the library in this way. So why release it? Simple, technology can not be stopped and...

I have decided to spend sometime learning Python. I may actually have a small amount of time to do so over the next month. The main reason is this article by Darrell. My hopes are that maybe I can write some Python for a quick problem solving session, and then use the code to write a design or whatever...

I'm in process with a How To Select Guide on e-mail (actually there are a couple of us CodeBetter bloggers involved in writing guides for other components). I've actually written my first version and second versions. The actual guide will be published sometime in September. I decided that I would do...

This is a quick personal (kind of) post. I just wanted my regular readers to stay tuned. I will be back (am back). I've had an extremely busy couple of weeks. I'm writing a guide for the How TO Select Guides on Internet E-mail components, have been extremely busy at work, and tie down pretty heavy by...

I've been thinking about a number of things lately as I look at a number of technologies. I think there's a growing programmer's revolt against the DBAs. Maybe I'm crazy, but it sure seems like that is what is happening (and no I'm not talking about Frans' comment or my response in another blog entry...