Archive | May, 2002

Tuesday, 21 May, 2002

By Ted Roche on May 21, 2002 in Home Page

Studying .Net, and Steven Platt’s Book, Introducing .NET Framework, is one of my guides. His home page is at http://www.rollthunder.com/index.asp.

Jon Udell talks of The Wiki Way as it relates to email threads in discussion groups and publishing.

The Wiki Way ISBN:0-201-71499-X by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham, is an insightful book into the ways of the Wiki.

Rand has an interesting study of Space Weapons

Windows/.NET magazine is one place I am considering submitting an article on VSS Maintenance.

IISAnswers has a step-by-step guide to installing Perl on IIS, including a link to an MSKB test script, MSKB:Q245225 “Configuring and Testing a PERL Script with IIS 4.0 and 5.0”

Post dated 2002-05-20 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 20, 2002 in Home Page

Monday, 20 May, 2002

Started off the day by posting the Boston Area FoxPro User Group meeting to the http://www.FoxCentral.net site, using Visual FoxPro, PFE and Web Services. Very nice.

Got bored with creating the calendars by hand (March, April and May) so I wrote a little program to generate the monthly calendar in Twiki table format. Probably uses twice as many variables and twice as much logic as it needs to, but it gets the job done. Let’s see how many months before I find a bug ;).

Analog and Report Magic produce some pretty elegant stuff, pretty easily. Look for me to automate this stuff over the coming weeks.

Post dated 2002-05-19 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 19, 2002 in Home Page

Sunday, 19 May, 2002

Good to see that Jerry Pournelle is busy at Chaos Manor. His group of daynotes includes others connecting to what we now call blogs. Been around for a while.

Analog appears to be a way cool log reporter.

Post dated 2002-05-18 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 18, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, 18 May, 2002

Visited the CIAC — Computer Incident Advisory Capability — to review some hoaxes. Great site for information. New PDF document on Connecting to the Internet Securely: Windows 2000. A must read.

Greg Gum of Blue Hat Software provides some resources for using Quick Books new XML interface with Visual FoxPro?.

Post dated 2002-05-17 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 17, 2002 in Home Page

Friday, 17 May, 2002

Nutso day. First thing in the morning, picked up the ex’s three cocker spaniels – my old friends Smudge and Freckles (see http://www.tedroche.com/homepage/~tedroche/Photos/dogz.htm ) and a new acquaintance, Khol. Needless to say, my three at home were not overly enthusiastic ;). Survived the day, but didn’t do much else.

Post dated 2002-05-16 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 16, 2002 in Home Page

Thursday, 16 May, 2002

Still fired up from solving the “twisted tree” algorithm yesterday. Now, on to the next part of the solution, which is to identify the shared files between projects and determine how to resolve them…

… and got my butt kicked. The problem is more complex than it might appear at first, and I think I took the wrong angle of attack. Tomorrow, a better solution.

Brian Jepson’s name caught my attention, as I think he used to work for one of the companies in the Fox World – Drew Speedie or MEI, I can’t recall. His name caught my eye in the list of bloggers on the O’Reilly site while reading a blog about an Emerging Technology conference from a link at Slashdot. The links are starting to work…

Post dated 2002-05-15 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 15, 2002 in Home Page

Wednesday, 15 May, 2002

The high point of Wednesday morning is the trash guy coming, and taking the dogs to the groomer. Luckily, the day got more exciting from there.

Solved the problem of performing an Analysis on a 3 Gb SourceSafe? database – the analysis code I supplied with “Essential SourceSafe?” was giving me a total of 7 Gb of files when I broke down the database by the top-level projects. Turns out the client is enthusiastic over sharing files, and I needed to debit the size of shared files if I ran into them more than once in the project. Ought to finish the code and turn it into an EXE that folks could download from the HWP web site.

Post dated 2002-05-14 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 14, 2002 in Home Page

Tuesday, 14 May, 2002

Grocery shopping was the highlight of the day.
The iServe announcement was the highlight of many others, including Doc Searl’s Blog.

I bought the combo deal of pdfFactoryPro and FinePrint from the same named company yesterday, and had them installed, registered and running in less than 15 minutes. Produced my PDF and sent it off to the client. This is how software is supposed to work!

Monday, 13 May, 2002

By Ted Roche on May 13, 2002 in Home Page

Monday morning. Grey and rainy. The grass and trees are a vibrant green that comes from fast-growing fresh leaves. I love spring!

Edward Lowry explains Misdirections in Information Technology to a group of Senators examining the IRS fiasco in 1998.

Post dated 2002-05-12 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on May 12, 2002 in Home Page

Sunday, 12 May, 2002

Some interesting surfing over the weekend.

Ed Yourdan is blogging! But not very often 🙂
Yourdon’s recommended Cool Papers made the surf worthwhile
OpenWiki sounds like a promising technology.
TopStyle looks like a cool stylesheet editor
Installed SourceOffSite today. Cool stuff!
The Mozilla crowd has an Active X control that will emulate IE, so that it can be used instead of IE. That might be an interesting opportunity to compare the IE and Gecko rendering engines and abilities.
The IISFAQ is a cool site for articles on working with IIS.

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