WilsonDotNet Home definitely needs some review - some excellent concepts here.
Also checking out this suite, for work, but am shying away from it.
Definitely looking to introduce callbacks, and drag and drop/dock into our development capabilities next year. Personalization on the drag and drop stuff to keep it where the user put it for thier next session.
Also people are going to what to find out what the common customizations are, and make it the default.
Monday, August 09, 2004
Friday, August 06, 2004
let it blast
Thursday, August 05, 2004
Monday, August 02, 2004
impressive coding
http://weblogs.asp.net/okloeten/archive/2004/07/31/202656.aspx
This is too cool. Inspired by old AsciiArt this guy wrote a program to convert an image to HTML.
Wow the power of CSS!
This is too cool. Inspired by old AsciiArt this guy wrote a program to convert an image to HTML.
Wow the power of CSS!
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Resumes
I used to think resumes were pretty much of a much. But now for the second time in a year, I have a stack of more than a dozen on my desk, and I can tell for certain they aren't of equal caliber.
Some people manage to convey enthusiasm, and depth of experience in their resume. Others drone on and on about their work history in such a way that puts me to sleep and makes me wonder what they actually have been doing all this time.
Remember your audience for your resume: the poor manager with too few resources and precious little time, desperately trying to fill a position in time to make a project deadline (or three positions as this case may be).
Another pet peeve is someone that puts a skillset on their skills inventory that doesn't appear anywhere in their work history.
I created a simple rating system. 29 questions I'm looking to be able to feel comfortable about the answers to by going through your resume, a phone interview, and face to face. It needs some revision to balance "comfort" with "technical ability", but it seems to work so far.
All this said if you are a great (but humble) .NET programmer shout at me and I'll put you in touch with a recruiting firm I can hire from. My email is the toplevel domain (my name) of this URL at gmail dot com.
Some people manage to convey enthusiasm, and depth of experience in their resume. Others drone on and on about their work history in such a way that puts me to sleep and makes me wonder what they actually have been doing all this time.
Remember your audience for your resume: the poor manager with too few resources and precious little time, desperately trying to fill a position in time to make a project deadline (or three positions as this case may be).
Another pet peeve is someone that puts a skillset on their skills inventory that doesn't appear anywhere in their work history.
I created a simple rating system. 29 questions I'm looking to be able to feel comfortable about the answers to by going through your resume, a phone interview, and face to face. It needs some revision to balance "comfort" with "technical ability", but it seems to work so far.
All this said if you are a great (but humble) .NET programmer shout at me and I'll put you in touch with a recruiting firm I can hire from. My email is the toplevel domain (my name) of this URL at gmail dot com.
Friday, June 25, 2004
A freind of mine from Austin, Tx is visiting. Actually he's living in Detroit right now, but I know him from Texas.
Today I'm splitting out early (legitimately - love summer hours!) and we're heading down to AutoShowInMotion in Philly (Bethlem actually). Should be cool to get to buzz around on the track in a corvette, hummer and the like.
This evening I think we'll head down to philly to tear it up a bit. Jess isn't very happy about it as she won't come as she has to work tommorow and its not her thing. I understand she's torn from wanting me to have fun and show my buddy a good time, but at the sametime wanting to be selfish and have me with her all evening. I'd rather she just came out and went home a little early. Oh well I don't go out very often so I'm not really concerned.
I finally had a little time to catch up this week - got upto speed on some dot net stuff and some more previews of whidbey. Won't be using msbuild likely though - won't be able to align it well with our Java efforts (nant and ant are much easier to work with for both).
I also started a little hacking on a BSP (bastard side project). It appears that my on the fly design skills are up to snuff but I've forgotten alot of c#/ado stuff in the last few months. My bsp will progress slowly I guess.
Today I'm splitting out early (legitimately - love summer hours!) and we're heading down to AutoShowInMotion in Philly (Bethlem actually). Should be cool to get to buzz around on the track in a corvette, hummer and the like.
This evening I think we'll head down to philly to tear it up a bit. Jess isn't very happy about it as she won't come as she has to work tommorow and its not her thing. I understand she's torn from wanting me to have fun and show my buddy a good time, but at the sametime wanting to be selfish and have me with her all evening. I'd rather she just came out and went home a little early. Oh well I don't go out very often so I'm not really concerned.
I finally had a little time to catch up this week - got upto speed on some dot net stuff and some more previews of whidbey. Won't be using msbuild likely though - won't be able to align it well with our Java efforts (nant and ant are much easier to work with for both).
I also started a little hacking on a BSP (bastard side project). It appears that my on the fly design skills are up to snuff but I've forgotten alot of c#/ado stuff in the last few months. My bsp will progress slowly I guess.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
2 weeks go by...
No lack of intrest just lack of time... Why do things always seem to be busier than the previous week?
This week is going to be quieter than last! Really....
The Parents Visit
It would have been great except Mom and Jessica couldn't come to terms with each other. We did get down to the King of Prussia mall, and to Palace of Asia for Indian food. All in all a good visit - despite the war between the girls...
The computer saga
I ordered a 160GB SATA HD from my computer (Samsung model with 8mb of cache -silent and fast!). Only problem was I meant to order the same drive in regular IDE - my motherboard doesn't support SATA.
Options:
1 - return drive, wait a week or so. Lose 15% (~$15)
2 - purchase SATA PCI card for ~$45 at local computer store, CON: want computer to be quieter (need less components for better airflow)
3 - new motherboard that supports SATA ~$90 (ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe)
So I ordered the new motherboard and it got here fast (NewEgg rocks!).
Problems getting it booting off the SATA disk (trying not use old drives) - no NTLDR found. Windows Install painfully slow - WinXP Pro disk cracked causing read errors - but it works.
All of a sudden no more booting. Lights on, fans on but not posting. Dead video card?
Went to bestbuy and bought a Radeo 9800Pro (128MB) for $250. ouch.
Didn't work - atleast I get to return the new video card (I like my Ti4400 for now - maybe this fall I'll get a new card). Must be processor or ram.
Ordered new processor (XP 2600+), and Ram (Crusial PC2700). Thanks again Newegg. Hope its the processor thats dead - atleast then I'll have a gig of RAM instead of 512...
Yep its the processor. Boot up - right into windows - no NTLDR error!
Windows update: Service pack 1. Reboot. All hotfixes. Reboot. Driver Upgrades. Reboot. DX 9 Reboot Media Player & Bios flash. BSOD dance. (if you didn't know by default WinXP reboots when a BSOD is hit, if it occurs on boot up you end up with an endless boot->bsod->reboot cycle - be sure to turn this feature off!)
Reflashed bios back to original (download on laptop, burn to cd, boot off Win98 cd run of Cd rom). Still BSOD dance. Reinstalled Windows XP from Kirts cd - but my key wouldn't allow me to "activate", ended up using my cd dumped onto my usb harddrive to "upgrade". Added SP1 and service packs but not Windows media player or the bios update.
Endless hours I didn't have in vain. $100 upgrade ended up costing about $300 ($250 I still need to get back by returning the video card). Turns out the NTLDR error was occuring because the motherboard was trying to boot off the USB harddrive -urgh.
In the end though it was worth it - the computer is MUCH faster now!
School
Accounting for managers is much more difficult and time consuming than the marketing and finance courses were. I finally think I turned a corner upon completing this last assignment though - finally enough knowledge built up to get things to fall into place. 3 assignements down, 5 to go.
This week is going to be quieter than last! Really....
The Parents Visit
It would have been great except Mom and Jessica couldn't come to terms with each other. We did get down to the King of Prussia mall, and to Palace of Asia for Indian food. All in all a good visit - despite the war between the girls...
The computer saga
I ordered a 160GB SATA HD from my computer (Samsung model with 8mb of cache -silent and fast!). Only problem was I meant to order the same drive in regular IDE - my motherboard doesn't support SATA.
Options:
1 - return drive, wait a week or so. Lose 15% (~$15)
2 - purchase SATA PCI card for ~$45 at local computer store, CON: want computer to be quieter (need less components for better airflow)
3 - new motherboard that supports SATA ~$90 (ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe)
So I ordered the new motherboard and it got here fast (NewEgg rocks!).
Problems getting it booting off the SATA disk (trying not use old drives) - no NTLDR found. Windows Install painfully slow - WinXP Pro disk cracked causing read errors - but it works.
All of a sudden no more booting. Lights on, fans on but not posting. Dead video card?
Went to bestbuy and bought a Radeo 9800Pro (128MB) for $250. ouch.
Didn't work - atleast I get to return the new video card (I like my Ti4400 for now - maybe this fall I'll get a new card). Must be processor or ram.
Ordered new processor (XP 2600+), and Ram (Crusial PC2700). Thanks again Newegg. Hope its the processor thats dead - atleast then I'll have a gig of RAM instead of 512...
Yep its the processor. Boot up - right into windows - no NTLDR error!
Windows update: Service pack 1. Reboot. All hotfixes. Reboot. Driver Upgrades. Reboot. DX 9 Reboot Media Player & Bios flash. BSOD dance. (if you didn't know by default WinXP reboots when a BSOD is hit, if it occurs on boot up you end up with an endless boot->bsod->reboot cycle - be sure to turn this feature off!)
Reflashed bios back to original (download on laptop, burn to cd, boot off Win98 cd run of Cd rom). Still BSOD dance. Reinstalled Windows XP from Kirts cd - but my key wouldn't allow me to "activate", ended up using my cd dumped onto my usb harddrive to "upgrade". Added SP1 and service packs but not Windows media player or the bios update.
Endless hours I didn't have in vain. $100 upgrade ended up costing about $300 ($250 I still need to get back by returning the video card). Turns out the NTLDR error was occuring because the motherboard was trying to boot off the USB harddrive -urgh.
In the end though it was worth it - the computer is MUCH faster now!
School
Accounting for managers is much more difficult and time consuming than the marketing and finance courses were. I finally think I turned a corner upon completing this last assignment though - finally enough knowledge built up to get things to fall into place. 3 assignements down, 5 to go.
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