August 2007 Entries
Just a reminder about the live ASP.NET "ask an expert" chat this Thursday, the 23rd of August at 7 PM CDT (5 PM PDT). Come join the fun. Here are the links. Main announcement - http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/ryan/archive/2007/07/24/august-23-2007-ask-an-expert-live-chat.aspx Prize announcement - http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/ryan/archive/2007/07/26/august-23-2007-ask-an-expert-live-chat-prizes.aspx Chat experts - http://community.strongcoders.com/blogs/ryan/archive/2007/07/30/august-23-2007-ask-an-expert-live-chat-experts.aspx
Well, it's been a crazy past couple of weeks for me (actually, it has been a couple of months). I find it humorous that about a year ago, I wrote about a new job venture I started. Unfortunately, that did not last long. Did I do something wrong? Was I fired? No, none of that. My employer just took a different direction on their project and that direction did not fit my career plans. Originally I was brought in to help them transition to .NET and re-design their legacy VB6/Oracle system. As the project progressed, I ran into a...
For the past couple of weeks, I've been looking for the "right" laptop to use for home/work/dev/play. I started to look at the Dell XPS M1330, their new slim 13.3" laptops, and was not too satisfied with their hardware/price ratio ... good hardware but too high of a price. So then I started looking at refurbished Dells and quickly came to the same conclusion. I was looking for the following things on a laptop: Fast CPU - I want to do software virtualization (aka, VPCs). Lots of RAM - (same reasons as above) Descent size HD - (same reasons...