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Very One Sided
The “one sidedness” of it is exactly the point he is making. Society holds women to a different standard than it does men. Society expects things of men that it does not hold women accountable to. Love and respect are … Continue reading
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Visual Studio 2012 puts the “Ug!” in “Ugly”
I think I’m all done with this article. Well, maybe not. Microsoft seem to have taken the really bad Metro idea from Windows 8 and pushed it onto VS2012 also. All dull grey. VS2010 had a classy, visually “easy upon … Continue reading
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What a Year Brings
Ok, so it’s a year and change. In November 0f 2010, I was working at a small distribution company with the best group of people you could hope to serve (mostly), but with a limited technology environment. Things that could … Continue reading
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Installing Sharepoint 2010 Farm on a Single VMWare VM
If you are like most of us Sharepoint Admins (or SQL Server DBA’s in a Cluster Environment, for that matter), you will often want to run through a new service implementation on a Virtual Machine taking a snapshot and running the … Continue reading
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Access 2010: A Rare Second Chance
Back in the late 90’s, tools and languages such Powerbuilder/PowerScript, and Borland’s Delphi/Pascal were leading the pack in the race to R.A.D. (Rapid Application Development). Microsoft, seeing that it had no real poker in this fire decided to push one of … Continue reading
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Waaaay too busy to post….
Sorry for the long absence. I’ve been gone so long I didn’t even notice that my domain mapping had expired! Life as a (that is to say, THE) developer and DBA for an international airline company is demanding to say … Continue reading
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Can’t Save Sharepoint Doc Even with proper permissions
Ran into this today. User can open and edit, but cannot then save an excel spreadsheet from a document library. Error msg says “document is read only”. But it isn’t read only. And the user has proper permissions to the … Continue reading
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Can I Kick It? Yes I Can!
Well, I spent a day or three building a SQL Server Automatic Failover Cluster with two nodes, each one hosted on a Windows 2008 VM running in Hyper-V with an iSCSI SAN shared between them. Each VM is the main … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned from a Cheese Curd maker
This is not an article about technology. This is an article about how to properly use technology, or at least how to not use it. Wise words I learned from a wise man. So, to be honest the guy was … Continue reading