Posts under ‘technology’

Just noticed that Database Edition is available to download with my msdn subscription.
Before it was about $3000 to buy, I wonder why there are just giving it away now?
I supect it has to do with the fact that currect dbas are heavily entrenched in their tools and practices, and don’t want to change.  By giving [...]

Google just released there new browser Google Chrome
It is beatifully simple piece of coding, in which each tab is broken into its own process.
Each process can then spawn child process which correspond to various plugins, such as shockwave flash, etc.
This is a great way to isolate your processes from other errors, essentially it is a [...]

The tutorial goes over some basic concepts surrounding Google’s App Engine Framework, demonstrates using the Google App Engine to store data, and using Django templates to create a GeoRss feed that is consumed by Google maps.
Setup your environment
I chose eclipse as my ide.
The nice thing about eclipse is if you add the lib directories of [...]

Recently I have been introduced to a new modeling tool called Enterprise Architect.
It is truly a great product for a great price.
It has full support for UML 2.1.
They have a robust and easy solution for distributed teams that have a need to access design artifacts.
Artifact Store
Local File or Shared Network Store
As with any modeling software [...]

Slim Timer is great web based task tracker and timer.
It also has some great reporting built in.
Check it out.

If the computer will not boot and the dvd drive is bad. You will have to find an alternate way to boot the computer.
I used a thumbdrive since the bios supported it.
First get the thumbdrive bootable.
In order to get access to the windows drives you should do a
fdisk -l to see the physical devices.
You will [...]

If you register the Visual Studio 2008 Express edition.
You can get some nice freebies.

Well I just got my invitation for the Grand Central Beta
Seems pretty cool so far.
The only problem I see, is google owns my number.
Would I really want to distribute it, if it can be taken away?
Probably not.
For a small business with a website, the call me button is nice.

Your customer can click the button, and [...]

The Web Client Software Factory was recently released.
In past couple of weeks I have been tinkering around with Ruby on Rails and have become convinced that MVC, MVP, Supervising Controller, or Passive View is the way to go.
It is a giant step in the right direction for testability and it really makes code a lot [...]

http://www.netobjectives.com/files/dpexplained/download/dpmatrix.pdf
A nice site with Design Patterns
http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx