...I can't believe how long it's been since I blogged. Life has a way of plowing over the bandwidth to do so. Tonight was the season wrap-up for the CMAP Certification Study Group. We had a really great season. This time we had two tracks - Business Intelligence and ASP.NET. At our final meeting we had three presentations in a row. I presented two topics - the last part of a chapter from the business intelligence study track and, by request, a presentation on embedding .NET WinForm controls

So it seems that my life lately has been SBA based. It just happens like that I guess. You get sidetracked on a product and want to completely digest the whole thing. Such is the case of Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006 - or SBA2006 for short. In trying to really get behind the product I have been faced with the very many shortcomings that it has to offer…oh, I mean features! And, well, there are a lot! Not a bad thing considering the product is new, built by a software company

What a headache!! I had a battle today with the fairly new Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting package. From an earlier post I mentioned a little development application based on this platform...but that's not what I'm here to barf about today... So you would think that a logical way to go (speaking about selling this application to companies...which is what I seem to do these days) is to install the trial version (a great 20-use trial, 5 of which get burned just setting it up for the customer

So my day was abruptly broken up by two calls for 'dead' computers. One was a simple 'hangover from hibernation'. When your on a portable computer and rely on hibernation, you sooner or later experience the 'hangover from hibernation' syndrome where it "kind of" came back from hibernation, but it really is not functioning. Usually a whack with the power button is the cure. But, the other was not such the case. Here is a customer (well – sort of) that I have been trying to emphasize the importance

...what's the world coming to?? I'm trying to at least get a post a week out. But, in reality, I've not much to blog about. It has been a busy week - between business and life. I've had some fun with building an application for Microsoft Small Business Accounting. It's really interesting to see how "fresh" the product really is. One thing for sure is that it is at least all written in .NET (unfortunately 1.1). That has been a great thing since there is VERY little documentation or help available

Okay, so I have resisted the blog for many years now. Not because I don't like them - not the case at all. I read many of them and enjoy the good stuff available (some of the wacky stuff too). My resistance to my own blog has been about keeping one current. I guess I always felt that my blog would be a "one entry" blog....maybe this is it! I always felt that after a day of problem solving, business building, knowledge enhancing and so forth, more time typing about it was going to cause me to go crazy