March 2007 - Posts

The Million Dollar Laptop

Published Mon, Mar 26 2007 2:51 | William

I'll be picking up one of these shortly after I buy one of these

So there is an 'F' in way

Published Mon, Mar 26 2007 1:38 | William

One of the things I do to help ensure I don't have any free time is working as a technical reviewer for computer books. I typically move from one to another and I tend to stay pretty busy. Anyway, I recently started a new project and the delivery method...

Filed under: Sql Server Integration Services, SSIS

The main uncool thing about Open Source stuff

Published Sun, Mar 25 2007 19:09 | William

I swear, there are times I just want to bang my head off of a wall in frustration. Without getting too specific, I was in a discussion the other day where I was adamantly arguing that I thought a given company's decision to use Ruby on Rails was a good...

Another great WIX Article

Published Sun, Mar 25 2007 19:07 | William

Well, I think any article about WIX is cool b/c Wix is just soooo kick a55, but some are better than others. This one is particularly good .

Filed under: WIX

Totally cool product

Published Wed, Mar 21 2007 1:27 | William

One of my favorite products in recent memory is WIX . No matter how bad my day is going, I can go home, write a Wix installer and feel good about myself. It's that same sort of smugness that you get from spending a day at work and not touching a GUI interface...

"Your job is supposed to be hard"

Published Mon, Mar 12 2007 3:46 | William

The IT Director at my current client has a sign outside his door that reads "<his name>, Your job is supposed to be hard". I've just arrived there so it's something that caught my attention. As I've been looking through things there, that sign really...

A few more good reads

Published Tue, Mar 6 2007 4:11 | William

I was hanging out with my homie Chris last week when we decided to hit the Barnes and Noble across the street from my place. I was pleasantly surprised to see Juval Lowy's Programming WCF Services was in stock. I've been waiting for it for a while (and...

The coolest campaign ad ever

Published Tue, Mar 6 2007 2:11 | William

Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool

Filed under: News, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Dumbest lawsuit Microsoft ever faced

Published Sun, Mar 4 2007 2:05 | William

This is a big claim on my part, but if this isn't the dumbest lawsuit Microsoft has ever faced , it's got to be a contender. In the lawsuit, Crooker argues that Internet Explorer was set to delete his browsing history after five days, but the software...

Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Interesting post on Extended Warranties

Published Sat, Mar 3 2007 4:07 | William

Here's a link on a way to 'game' extended warranties. I'm not sure this would work if people started doing it regularly but it's interesting. Not b/c I think it's cool to game stores or anything of that sort, but mainly b/c few things are as annoying...