Virtually all software developers eventually experience neck and/or back pain. Mine gradually increased from light neck pains in 1995/6 to being unable to work one day in 2001. Doctor’s advice: “stop doing what makes it hurt”. Useful… Earlier today Martin Fowler posted “Back pain is a common issue, but everyone’s pain (and treatment) is different”. [...]
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Using DOS and Windows since the mid 80′s it was time for a change. Vista was never reliable on any of the three machines I tried, Microsoft fanboys were killing creditability in the user group scene – heck it got to the point where saying ‘Google’ was not permitted. It would immediately be corrected to ‘Bing’, sometimes [...]
A friend just asked me what .Net groups are good these days. Atlanta is the Software Capital of the South which means we have many great groups in town and I watch them all for interesting topics, but these are the three I personally attend most often: http://www.meetup.com/AtlAltDotNet/ this is great for new ideas and decent [...]
This was so easy I felt obliged to blog it. Under our house rule ‘not used it in a year, so it has to go’, our old P4 laptop is being donated. It held old tax records, Microsoft Money files etc which had to be deleted first. One free and simple technique is Boot and Nuke. I [...]
Chrome is out, download it here: http://www.google.com/chrome. I know the title post was a little obvious, a quick web-search shows a stack of hits for it already Chrome is built on webkit and has worked fine for me on all my favorite sites so far, interesting tid-bits: Task Manger shows each tab is a separate process – [...]
Many sites say v8 of the WRT-54G routers cannot be flashed with DD-WRT….
Shawn (the ADO Guy) pointed me to Google Reader last Summer and that spelled the end of my Blog Lines use. Both are web based readers, and ideal for reading RSS feeds at various computers. It remembers all feeds, and even what has been read from machine to machine, I used to waste time manually [...]
Why was I not aware of this? It is a free quarterly print/web publication, after scanning the back issues it looks more useful than the MSDN Magazine is lately: Sign up here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/ PDFs are there too; I just put all the issues on my thumb drive ready for the next Atlantic flight.
Speaking at IASA Atlanta: May 9th
Posted: April 24, 2007 in Atlanta, Presentations, Tech Events, TechnologyThis should be fun a night, I will kick off with a light hearted look at Cruise Control – it is amazing how many projects still do not use Continuous Integration. My plan is take demos and a few slides – knowing the Architect Group the audience will soon be talking more than me Next [...]
Like many busy people I used to politely decline requests to join LinkedIn – a social networking website for professionals. A few weeks ago I finally gave it a try and on uploading my Gmail contacts a whopping 70+ people I knew were already in LinkedIn, wow it has really taken off! Check out my [...]
