This post is as much for my sanity, to clear my mind, as it is for sharing my thoughts. I have a couple of after hours projects going on right now and a couple that I would like to start. I have been working on a few things for the Community Server…
I’m not speaking to anyone in particular with the above title, just the blogging world in general. I pruned a few RSS feeds from my reader today (Newsgator Outlook Edition in case you’re keeping count) and afterward I realized that each of the three…
Following is a list of all the posts of the WhatIWantMost series. I’m listing them all here mostly for my own selfish purposes, but feel free to bookmark this post yourself. Creating the WhatIWantMost web site from scratch: Introduction…
At the end of my last WhatIWantMost post (about 3-1/2 months ago) I wrote that the site was getting close to being good enough and that I had hoped to roll it out soon. Over the following month I asked some friends and colleagues to review the site…
Are you waiting in line for an iPhone right now? Do you know anyone who is? I know of a couple friends who plans to head down to the Apple store after work, but I don’t know of any friends/colleagues who are currently standing in line. I have not…
When restoring a large SQL Server database (double-digit GBs) insure that the backup file is not on the same physical drive that your data file will reside. Having them on the same drive seems to slow down the restore process 10 fold. That number is…
I decided yesterday that I needed to add a new hard drive to my workstation. On all past computers I would keep a large C: drive for system, program files, etc. and keep a very large D: drive for data (pst files, code, databases, desktop & “my…
As previously promised we have put together a little description of the problems we had with the rollout of the redesigned forums.asp.net , weblogs.asp.net and www.asp.net sites on May 16th. You can find the details in this post on forums.asp…
I found this picture a couple of days ago while looking through an old computer for files I needed to copy off of it before repaving and repurposing. This is one of the very few pictures I have of myself from my Army days. This was taken sometime…
I’ve spent some time over the last couple of months working with Chameleon, the new theming engine introduced in Community Server 2007 . I was highly confused at first, even after reading Ben’s great blog series, Introduction to Chameleon . However…
