Relatively speaking, I’ve been one lucky computer user. I’ve never had a hard drive fail here at the house. I’ve never accidentally deleted something vital. I even believed in the annual-reimage. As far as losing data I’ve never really lost anything I cared that much about. For that reason, I’m only now looking at a serious backup [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Personal Backup with Mozy
Apr 27
Running with Set-ExecutionPolicy as AllSigned or Restricted with a roaming profile? Here’s a cmdlet pair that will sign all the scripts in your profile directory. Makes life easier on me as I include a number of scripts into my main profile for readability: function sign-profile(){ dir $Profiledir\*.ps1 | foreach-object { sign-script $_.FullName }} function sign-script( $scriptsource [...]
Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1
Apr 20
The last few weeks I’ve felt like a little intern again. With the WPF Bootcamp and the early stages WCF integration into the Speedy Rewards messaging infrastructure (I’ll be posting on this soon), I’ve had lots of time to play with .Net 3.0 stuff. For those that have had a chance to fiddle, there are two feasible options at this [...]
In the Speedy Rewards team here we use custom PerformanceCounters quite extensively to monitor and trend our host systems. You may not know, but our rewards program implements real-time host integration for transactions that are Id’ed as a SpeedyRewards member such that systems like the in-store kiosk, www.SpeedyRewards.com, and any other store you may soon visit can accurately [...]
Vacation at your own peril!
Apr 16
A co-worker of mine recently went on vacation for a week. Here’s what he returned to: We went with a “Little Tikes” theme. Rickie is quite the artist. We wanted Rick to feel special, so we gave him his very own POS! Meetings are going to be so much more productive now! This [...]
I’m pretty sure I have run across this in the past, but apparently I’ve avoided complex XSL transforms successfully for long enough that my mind was purged of how namespaces impact your transforms. Today I was working on our .Net 2.0 build process and was attempting to apply a transform to the *.xxproj file that [...]
One of the cool tools we had a chance to use while up at the WPF Bootcamp in Redmond was Expression Blend. While there I became pretty engrossed in the ease with which you could create fairly cool animations without an intimate knowledge of Xaml. This made it all that harder to leave seeing as [...]
[Update: These are being posted due to the ftp access restrictions at the Microsoft Campus] Today has been pretty intense which has kept me away from blogging “live”. Today started with Kevin Moore, Program Manager for WPF/Blend(?), and a lightning round with Expression Blend. As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not a designer, so Kevin had my [...]