On the Road Again
I have not posted to my blog in a while. I am sitting in a hospital room in Baltimore, MD running the night shift in my daughter’s room after her surgery. She has some issues with the growth of her bladder and the surgery is meant to help change that,...
GhostDoc 1.9.3 Released
Roland Weigelt released an updated version of his product called GhostDoc. If you haven’t used this product it is a Visual Studio 2005 add-in which makes quick work of a meanial task in VS, documenting method headers. I have been using GhostDoc since the VS 2003 release (1.3) and have...
Red-Gate Software Releases SQL Prompt
Red-Gate Software recently acquired a product called SQL Prompt. SQL Prompt gives the SQL developer intellisense in SQL Query Analyzer and SQL Management Studio, which all Visual Studio developers are spoiled with. I have been using the version from the previous developer for some time now and really got used...
How-To Configure Session State in a Windows Web Farm.
I recently had the opportunity to configure our new web servers running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and IIS 6.0. These servers are to be used in our development and production environments and will use Microsoft’s Network Load Balancing to handle server load. This configuration allows an administrator to take an...
Software Development Podcast List
I spend a fair amount of time in my day. I work in an organzation that has many office workers and warehouse as well. In fact, my office is next to the warehouse and you can probably guess that it is not as quiet as it could be. It’s difficult...
Staying Organized with MasterList Professional
I manage a small team of developers on what seems to be a never-ending project. The project seems never end because of the shear size of it and the number of developers dedicated to it. We do not have a dedication Project Manager who does nothing but manage all day....
Guy Kawasaki's The Top Ten Lies of Engineers
Guy Kawasaki is a well-known entrepreneur and writer in high-tech. He recently wrote about The Top Ten Lies of Engineers. I had to step back and think about how many of these applied to me or any of the teams I have been a part of. I certainly have been...
Architects Who Don't Write Code Are Powerpoint Architects
I work at my day job as a System Architect in a small company who creates commerce applications. I design the plumbing of applications and I write code to test the design. This is not true of all architects, there are some who are behave more like prima donnas, thinking...
Microsoft Atlas Control Toolkit Released
Microsoft has made available a really nice set of extended controls for use with Atlas. The announcement was made by Shawn Burke, who is on the Atlas team. The toolkit is available form the Atlas site, here. The toolkit is really a set of samples that show controls and extenders...
CNN Reports, Software Engineer is BEST Job in America
OK, well the title says it all. CNN has a story from Money.com showing the results of a survey showing Software Engineers have the best jobs in America.