Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
So I've grown to not like the coding style of the guy before me at all. Some of his methods are quite, recursive and hellish when it comes to SQL. Several times, the easy way was taken rather than the correct way. To give you a bit ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
So I've now spent 2 days in Nashville and I've learned quite a few things. The first of which is if you're ever IT and going to an area to be told their problems, you're fresh meat. I've spent alot of time being told the seventeen thousand things ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Well I've had an excellent few days off. Played a few great dj gigs. I also splurged a little and picked up a digital camera. After doing a bit of research (i.e. calling my Uncle Mike) I decided it was time for me to own a digital ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
So at the new job we have a few offices in different locations of country. For example, next week I'm heading to Tennessee to experience the call center application I'm working on first hand. I had just relocated one of our databases from the Michigan office to our sql server ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
First off, I'm going to admit up front, I'm not against rap music. I used to only listen to rap music just a few years ago. I like to think that I've expanded my music horizons enough to not be biased towards one type of music. That ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
I don't understand it. I get these urges to have something every now and then. Usually its some bit of techno wizardy. Be it a cell phone, or the XBox 360 on my shelf, of my tv. Money vexes me. If I have have it, it screams at me, get ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
So my long time e-friend ht recently sent me an invite to Pownce. Pownce is alot like Twitter but from one of the guys over at Digg. The basis of the site is a social network that appears to be taking a minimal approach. Where Myspace and Facebook ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
I actually stumbled across this a few days ago at work. While trying to remote desktop into our terminal server, I kept experiencing some odd slowdowns as if the connection was intermittently working. The odd thing, is I had no issues while typing in my password or typing in a ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Well today I start the initial steps of migrating our MSSQL databases to MySQL. One of the first tasks here at the new job was to determine where our MSSQL licensing was at. We're currently running a version of MSSQL 2000 Personal edition so we either need to migrate or ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
After a brief discussion with Tarken I settled on my new work development server being run on CentOS. For those of you that are unfamiliar, CentOS is the open source community's free version of RedHat 5 Enterprise. I had initially downloaded the dvd iso image only to realize ...
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