David Berlind has not used Windows Home Server
October 20, 2007
David Berlind has posted a response to my post on Windows Home Server over on ZDNet. He also responded to me directly via e-mail on Friday. Unfortunately, in both cases, he failed to answer my question of whether or not he had used Windows Home Server. Finally,…
Mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 is coming to an end
October 19, 2007
Mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 is coming to an end April 8 2008. The features and benefits of Mainstream Support include: Incident support (no-charge incident support, paid incident support, support charged on an hourly basis, support for warranty claims) Security update support. The ability to request…
10 signs that you aren’t cut out to be a developer
October 19, 2007
Programmers make big bucks. Software developers dress casual every day of the week. Anyone can teach themselves to be a programmer. These are just a few of the reasons why people say they want to become a developer. Unfortunately, the job market is littered with people who may have had…
Handle conditional data and data conversion using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
October 19, 2007
Converting data and splitting data are at the core of almost any type of data application. This tutorial presents an example that details how to perform data conversion and conditional data splitting using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS). The example I will begin this example where I…
10 tips for getting the most out of your videoconferences
October 17, 2007
Meetings: We all hate them. But like death and taxes, they seem to be inevitable. Whether your company is a multi-site corporation or a one-person consulting operation, traveling to and from meetings can eat up a large chunk of your budget. But with today’s technology, there’s more than one way…
Installing VMware Server on Ubuntu Linux
October 16, 2007
As of late, my interest in Linux has been peaked and I loaded VMware Server on a spare computer running Linux to do some testing. Performance is —->> by Steven Warren
Happy second birthday, Zoho, and many more
October 16, 2007
I’ve been reading and hearing quite a bit about Zoho in the news recently, and so when I received a piece of marketing mail that said Zoho just celebrated its second birthday, I decided it was time to find out more about this suite of productivity tools. …
Access 2007 doesn’t export to Excel
October 16, 2007
You cannot export a report to an Excel format in Access 2007 This might be a bit gotcha if you upgrade a database that exports Access reports to Excel. by Susan Harkins
Do software developers bear moral responsibility for tech features that may violate human rights?
October 16, 2007
In his ZDNet blog this week, Charles Cooper interviews Grady Booch about the morality behind software development. Booch, the inventor of the Unified Modeling Language, talks about confronting questions of morality in regard to how governments later deploy their finished work. Booch takes issue in particular with…
Keep Word headers and footers from overlapping your document’s text
October 16, 2007
When you find that your header is almost overlapping the first line of text in your Word document, you do not need to make your header smaller; you need to increase the distance of the header text from the rest of the content on the page. To do so, follow…
