Traditionally when planned (or unplanned) data center outages occur the company website is the most visible hit. This leaves the web folks scrambling to find a solution to bring something up for the outside users while the problem is addressed. However, unless the internal problem is fixed, the only way out is to stand up… Read More »
Ok, first I have to say that I’m not a doctor, dietician, or expert in any way. My results are my own and I’m not suggesting anyone else following in my footsteps. I don’t believe this is the type of diet that you do and go back to old habits either. My plan is to… Read More »
Edward Tufte once said “Only two industries refer to their customers as ‘users’: computer design and drug dealing.” I find the comparison interesting for the fact that “users” need I.T. professionals in a similar way (sans the addiction part). It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about grandma needing help setting up her e-mail, or the… Read More »
There has been a recent discussion on resumes on Twitter and the Midnight DBA blog/show. In January the Colorado Springs SQL User Group will also be hosting SQL Saturday #104 and will have resume writers and mock interviews as part of the activities. Inspired by this I decided to dust off and update my own… Read More »
Wanted to put this post out there in hopes of helping the unfortunate soul who may be trying to get this working as well. Disclaimer: this solution has only been tested with the latest version of Nginx and OWA 2007. Your mileage may vary. First off I would like to reference a very good example… Read More »
If you’re a fan of certain fruit named products then you won’t appreciate this post, but what I’d like from Microsoft this holiday season is a new Zune device. While I realize you can head over to zune.net and still buy a new Zune HD there doesn’t seem to be any development of a new… Read More »
This past weekend I participated in my first ever Code Retreat in Fort Collins, CO. After all the dust has settled I can look back on the experience with both a good and bad perspective. The way this retreat worked was each of us was paired up with another programmer and we tried to solve… Read More »
My brother recently had his laptop screen go out. So being the friendly family tech support I told him I’d take a look. The big issue was that there were a lot of family photos and videos they needed. One of which was a video of the birth of their son. Utilizing various techniques I… Read More »
This is part 2 in an ongoing series to put some tips out there to make your T-SQL code cleaner (and hopefully) better. Using Comments In his book “Clean Code” Robert Martin has this to say about comments “Nothing can be quite so damaging as an old crufty comment that propagates lies and misinformation”. What… Read More »
