Archive for March, 2005

IT advice for CEOs

Come across a tongue-in-cheek series on Tom Evslin’s blog entitlted “Managing Programming for CEOs”. They’re mostly old jokes, but amusing anyway and there’s some gems of truth in there. Here goes: Managing Programming for CEOs Part I – Decompiling Programmer-Speak Managing Programming for CEOs Part II – Done is a...

UK .Net Developer Event

Just spotted this posting on Mike Pelton’s blog: using DeveloperCommunity.BestSpeakers; using Microsoft.Premises;   namespace DeveloperDeveloperDEVELOPER {             class ByDeveloperForDeveloperEvent             {                         string date = “Saturday May 14th 2005″;                         string location = “Microsoft UK ’s HQ, Reading , England “;                           bool isRelaxedAndInformal = true;                         bool isTechnologyFocusDotNet = true;                         bool isLunchProvided = true;                         bool arePresentersFromMicrosoft = false;                         bool isOnASaturday = true;                         bool isFree = true;                                     public void EnjoySessions()                         {                                     for(int iTrack = 0 ;...

Top-Down vs Bottom-up SOA

Excellent post on David Chappell’s blog The best approach to creating a service-oriented environment is obvious. Start by understanding the business, probably by grasping the most important business processes and determining which applications underlie those processes. Once you’ve figured out the business services that software implements, you can wrap existing apps...

Geek Tax

*grin* .. Omar’s coined the phrase “Geek Tax” I have this term, Geek Tax, and I have to pay it every few months. Geek Tax is the amazing waste of time that you must endure when crap stops working. Today my internet stopped working. I’ve been troubleshooting various things for the...

How long does your laptop battery last?

Anyone who uses a laptop will enjoy this BOFH...

Troubleshooting Authentication Issues in IIS

Jonathan, a Solidsoft colleague, just sent around a link to AuthDiag .. more here: AuthDiag 1.0 offers a robust tool that offers a efficient method for troubleshooting authentication on IIS 5.x and 6.0. It will analyze metabase configuration and system-wide policies and warn users of possible points of failure and guide them to resolving the problem. AuthDiag...

Placeholder for Business Category

I’m sort out my blog posts into categories that make a bit more sense, and I found that dasBlog needs to have an entry under each root category to actually display the tree. Good to know, saved me some hair...

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