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Know thy customer
I was reading an excellent article by David S. Platt called " Using WPF for Good and Not Evil " in which he takes a sample application written to show off Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and tells what he feels are the good and bad points...
Posted: Sat, Jul 31 2010 7:42 by gary | with no comments
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Style sheets in real life
For those who do not know, a stylesheet, AKA CSS, is used to help define the look and feel of a web page. Check out the CSS Zen Garden for some great examples of what CSS can do. While working on a recent project I noticed that the incredible web page...
Posted: Thu, May 6 2010 14:45 by gary | with no comments
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Make sure to check out the Microsoft Incentives web site
Kind of like sales on Microsoft licenses: http://www.microsoftincentives.com/ For a limited time only! 15% off L&SA - Exchange Server Standard, Office Communication Server Standard, SQL Server Standard, Office SharePoint Server , Visual Studio Team...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13 2009 13:24 by gary | with no comments
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No mapping between account names and security ids was done
I just created a new SQL Server 2008 server with Hyper-V and was in the process of setting up my VMs complete with AD. When I got to the point of adding a SQL Server 2008 to the mix I recieved the above error when I was trying to add the domain users...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19 2009 9:37 by gary | with no comments
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Maybe the XBox 360 does have a problem
I just dropped off my XBox 360 at my local UPS store to get the infamous red ring of death issue resolved. Without me even saying anything the clerk behind the counter knew it was a XBox being returned! Now this is not exactly a major UPS Hub we are talking...
Posted: Mon, Jan 12 2009 9:39 by gary | with no comments
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Recruiters, get a clue
Update: Had another call from a recruiter yesterday. It was night and day difference! He was very professional, knew what he was going to say, and even though I turned him down he asked.....let me say that again, HE ASKED....if it would be alright to...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20 2007 6:24 by gary | with no comments
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A word of warning with SQL Server 2005
If you read the Installation guide for SQL Server 2005 you will find a warning about not installing it via Terminal Services. Heed that warning! It may not give you an error but there may be strange errors popping up down the line. Found out that the...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15 2006 13:51 by gary | with no comments
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Kudos to the CRM Team
Even though there are a few things about Microsoft CRM 3.0 that I do not like I have to admin they really impressed me in one area....customization. Not only do you have the ability to add new fields to various entities like Lead or Customer, but the...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18 2006 17:43 by gary | with no comments
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Office 12 to support saving to PDF
Probably old news to most of you since it was announced yesterday ;) but MS announced during the MVP summit that the Office 12 client applications will support saving to PDF files. We saw a demo of Word, Publisher, and Access saving to a PDF file with...
Posted: Sun, Oct 2 2005 14:39 by gary | with no comments
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Phishing twist relies on bogus blogs
Watch those links coming from Emails and IM! http://news.com.com/Phishing+twist+relies+on+bogus+blogs/2100-7349_3-5666617.html?part=rss&tag=5666617&subj=news
Posted: Tue, Apr 12 2005 13:03 by gary | with no comments
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Great videos on Channel9
If you do not already know, MS has a web site called Channel9 that has some great videos describing various aspects of not only MS products but life at MS in general. The latest batch (for their 1st birthday) contains one of the most unusual but interesting...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7 2005 7:30 by gary | with no comments
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