Well, Oracle is officially tossed into the trash bin of providers in .NET 4.0. That?s fine by me, I've not seen an Oracle installation in about 8 years and don?t really care to. Between SQL Server and all the other top notch options, not really sure why anyone needs Oracle anyway. Aside from that a... Continue reading →

I’ve been working on some ActionScript code for work related projects, and was really hoping that I could get a Flex Builder 3 and Flash CS4 License purchased for ongoing use. The Adobe tools & frameworks are really pretty sweet. So with ongoing efforts continuing with the Adobe Tools/Codez the decision was made to purchase... Continue reading →

When creating an Excel Application there are some things to keep in mind. Recently I was creating some tests, which I’m not sure if they’d be "unit test", but they do test Excel. I created a fixture setup and a fixture tear down that would create my Excel Application object that I?d want to test... Continue reading →

A current task of mine is to create a tagging architecture, implementation, and code for a Flash Plugin but also for a general Flash Plugin. That way it can easily be dropped in for any tagging needs in the future. This means I have a lot of speed reading and studying to do over the... Continue reading →

This is one of those personal tech related entries I just wanted to write. It doesn't have anything to do with any specific technology, just the industry and more specifically the local software industry here in Portland. It's Good to Be a Software Type Recession, depression, I have to say it isn't all that bad... Continue reading →