Archive for the ‘Software Development’ Category
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Back in March, I was promoted to Chief Technology Officer. This was a pretty big deal for me, as you can probably imagine, and it greatly expanded the scope of my responsibilities. That's partly why I've not been spending enough time writing for this blog. I'm actually proud of my ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
There's a term that comes from online games known as grinding. This term is used to describe a repetitive activity intended to accomplish some goal. For example, you might find yourself repeatedly killing a certain type of creature in the hopes that it'll give you a particular piece of loot. ...
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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Until about two weeks ago, I had no idea why so many developers were going ga-ga over Ruby on Rails. It wasn't because I had a problem with Rails; in fact, I didn't have an opinion at all. That's the beauty of ignorance.
But as I started to delve deeper into ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Yesterday I installed Service Pack 2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 on the two servers in our Development farm. I purposely did not follow the guidelines for upgrading SharePoint as I wanted to see what happened when I ran the installer. Since it’s a dev environment, there was no ...
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