Moving to the Cloud, as a Consumer

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the cloud. As a .NET developer, most of my thoughts have been on whether there were any projects I had which would make sense to reside on Azure. I struggled with the temptation of putting something up for the pure sake of…

The Stored Procedure for Searching Challenge

The Problem

You have a table chock full of good business data. This data needs to be accessed by a host of potential search criteria and any combination of that search criteria. What’s the most elegant way to right a…

Reviving Dependency Walker

If you haven’t noticed, I am a big fan of reviving the fanfare of some of the older development tools that are out there. Of course, there are constantly new tools released to help developers work smarter, faster, and more effectively — but often with all of the excitement over…

Running SSMS Under Another Windows Authenticated User

Why do this?

Recently, I’ve been using Ubuntu as a host operating system and running virtual machines for my various development and sandbox server environments. This has led me to not particular want to…

My Recent Speaking Presentations

Presenting at Florida Gulf Coast University (Careers in Technology)

Tonight, Charlene Gamero and I did a presentation on Careers in Technology to students at FGCU. There was a solid turn out, mostly…

TFS Management with Team Foundation Sidekicks 2010

Recently, I’ve had a series of unfortunate events regarding my development environment. I’ve had some hard drive issues, some difficulties with a VM that I had been working on, and so it goes. All of these problems led to a rebuild recently…

jQuery Makes 100% Height So Much Easier

jQuery gets an insane amount of hype these days and for the most part it is warranted. The interesting thing to me is that I never see amazingly new things with jQuery that you couldn’t do with plain old javascript before; however, jQuery just makes it so much…

Running Zune and WP7 on VirtualBox

I have a fairly unique machine I develop on. I run Ubuntu as my host environment, and run development and office work off of virtual machines through VirtualBox with Windows 7. You may thinks it is a bit crazy but it has some real advantages if you have the patience to…

Not All Roses With Azure

As many of you who occasionally read my blog know, I tend to be an early adopter of most Microsoft technologies. Let me rephrase that, I am an early explorer of most Microsoft technologies; adoption into production generally comes a little later. However, I did try out Azure two…

PhotoMemory WP7 App

The Basic Outline of Functionality

1. Choose the difficulty mode to play in.
2. Clear default picture values used in development.
3. Set the board up based on the difficulty mode.