Thanks James, for pointing out I’m a dickhead. You saved me at least a few more minutes of troubleshooting! SqlprofileProvider is in the Profile namespace branch unlike EVERY other membership provider in ASP.NET 2.0. I guess I’ll be the 5th with the google”able” error message of ‘Could not load type ‘System.Web.Security.SqlProfileProvider’! Technorati Tags: SqlProfileProvider …... Continue reading →

As usual, the first week or three at a new position is very relaxed or at least somewhat calm. Which for me leads to a bit of boredom, but I always know that just around the corner of being the FNG (F-ing New Guy) is the fast paced action of the project work. Now that... Continue reading →

Often times there is no cube, no OLAP, no BI plan but someone wants reports that provide rollup data, data slices, sums, and even dimensional representations that are oriented toward the BI world. Of course building these in SQL is possible, even easy sometimes, but it slams the processing of an RDBMS. When working through... Continue reading →

I’ve always know there had to be some rule or logic that someone has laid out for usability. Especially from a marketing perspective. Recently I took to reading a few pages of Web Analytics Demystified by Eric T. Peterson. While reading through the book in the very first few pages the 10-second usability rule is... Continue reading →

So Microsoft has promised a November release date for .NET 3.5 and VS 08. I’m stoked that it will (could?) be out by end of month! The funny thing is I found out by reading about a SQL Server blog entry. In that entry Denis Gobo is wondering, which I do also, where is SQL... Continue reading →