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For a code review at work, I had to write a code review document. among other things, I had to list the different stored procedures in my database, together with the security configuration of the stored procedures. A bit of googling got me the various...
My apologies for yesterdays blog post. If I look at it in the preview pane or in the editor, it looks well formatted with the various options presented in a neat list. I just noticed that in the actual blog view it looked like a programming book vomited...
7) Go easy on the coffee. People tend to drink more coffee than they normally do. This has various reasons, including the fact that the coffee at tech-ed events tends to be high quality. If you do it can mess with your body in various ways. 8) Go easy...
4) Take your notes during the session. You get so much information that you will have forgotten a lot by the end of the session if you don’t. You’ll also forget the structure in which it was presented. Writing things down as you go along makes...
Over the years I've made a short list of things that help me survive tech ed. 1) Arrive early. Travel the day before the event. It means you’ll sacrifice your Sunday afternoon. However, it also means you avoid the rush traffic, you can register...
VS2012 comes with 2 themes: 'light' and 'dark'. Some people might prefer the dark one. If you spend a long day looking at code, it may even be more ergonomic. However, I quickly discovered a problem with the dark theme when I was writing...
I've decided to start blogging again, on the subject of C++. A couple of years ago, just before the release of VS2010, I had become jaded with C++. The standard was still nowhere near finalized, Visual C++ was getting none of the 'designer'...
I checked out and brought my luggage with me to the RAI. There is a luggage / cloak room where almost no one drops off their stuff, so I am using that one instead of the main one. Hopefully, it’ll save me some time when it is time to leave. Yesterday...
I played some more with my Azure devbox, and I have to say the responsiveness is great. I had another phone call from the home front, and I am looking forward to going home and see my family. The weather here is clearing up nicely, and the park I have...
Breakfast was the same as yesterday. I thought of going someplace else, but didn’t for 3 reasons. First, tech-ed starts at 08:30, and the restaurants are at the other side of the RAI. I would really have to hurry in order to get there, have a meal...
As it turns out, my prediction about breakfast turned out to be true. In fact, I’d say it is not even worthy of the name ‘breakfast’. There were a handful of bread rolls, no bacon, no cheese, no meat, no honey, …. They did have...
It’s off to tech-ed again. It’s been 3 years since my last attendance. Last year, there was no tech-ed, and the year before that, my colleague was the one who could go. Technically, last year I could have gone to tech-ed in the US, but I didn’t...
All in all, tech-ed was worth it this year. If you’re an an IT professional, then visiting tech-ed is a valuable learning experience. Even though most of my job involves off-the-shelf process control software, this software is still running on the Windows...
After tech-ed I am excited about developing for Windows 7, and playing with the parallel computing toolset that is going to be part of Visual Studio 2010. Since my existing partitions were already quite cramped, I thought I’d install 7 on a new disk so...
I've been using VMWare Server 2 on a Vista 64 host to simulate a network environment for testing our operating procedures. Everything was working fine before I got on holiday. Now I am back for 2 weeks, and suddenly, VMWare thorws a wobbler. Using...
It's been a while since I blogged here. Lack of inspiration, lack of time, lack of interest... Over the past couple of months, I've been occupied with other stuff. The guest bathroom needed finishing, and my wife had a number of creative ideas...
This is what I got in the event logs yesterday afternoon: Event Type: Error Event Source: Kerberos Event Category: None Event ID: 4 Computer: SE-SMURF01 Description: The kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error from the server PC-BLABLA09...
The scheduled task for running ntbackup on our fileserver would not run anymore. It would stop with a return code of 0x80, and nothing worthwhile in the log file or event log. It ran fine for months, apart from the occasional hickup such as having no...
If you find a bug in Visual Studio, report it on http://connect.microsoft.com If the bug affects the version of VS that is in development at that time, there is a significant chance it will get fixed before the next release. Just this week I got confirmation...
We are going through an unusual spell of cold weather at the moment. It was -15C when I left for work this morning. The intense cold also caused some of the outside water pipes on our site to freeze. In particular, the ones running to the temporary trailers...
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