As anyone in the software industry knows, especially those that use the latest and greatest, having an up to date and powerful toolkit is vital for the job. Without a good personal toolkit a developer can be rendered almost useless or at least lost a huge amount of value. In my efforts to stay above... Continue reading →

So a lot of things are going on in my life at the moment, causing any travel that I need to take outside of the north western US to be very difficult. One event coming up that is driving me crazy, because I’d really like to go, is the QCon Event down in San Francisco.... Continue reading →

I had a kind of epiphany about “figuring out” a solution to a problem versus “making” a solution to a problem. Let’s break out the two a little bit just so I’m not rambling to the world without some context. What I stumbled into thought about is the “figuring out” a solution is done when... Continue reading →

The Microsoft Windows SDK Blog is an awesome way to keep up with the SDK. If you haven’t downloaded the SDK get over there post haste and get r’ done! The latest SDK for Vista (VS 05) is a must have. With the WCF, WF, and other tools and their respective “designers” and such it’s... Continue reading →

I had a few conversations, actually more like 6 different conversations, pertaining to BI (Business Intelligence), OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), Cube or UDM (Unified Dimensional Model) Processing, ETL (Extract Transform Load), normalization and de-normalization for Reporting Purposes, and other such related topics. It seems that there are tons of BI Projects starting up around the... Continue reading →