Thursday, March 18, 2004 - Posts
Stuff I'm currently thinking about...
- I want to MoBlog, but I need an appropriate weapon. My immediate choices are the LG XV6000 or the Audiovox CDM8900. I'm leaning towards the Audiovox. Recommendations?
- Rod has been talking about building usage logging into our applications. I'm kind of fascinated by the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework. He's thinking arrival/depature monitors, I'm thinking Flight Data Recorders. The goal is to help identify which applications we work on generate the most business value since we don't write for-sale applications. Is EIF easy? Reliable? Useful? We should have MOM shortly.
- Does anybody read the Books On Line for SQL or Reporting Services? No really, do they?
- Anonymous-source email is evil. Exchange is still based on MAPI. Outlook is my primary communications tool. Anybody see a problem here?
- If Dr. Feynman can explain Physics in Six Easy Pieces, why can we explain knowledge management as simply and elegantly?
- Summit's Maibock is pretty darned good.
- Spammers are making themselves look like idiots trying to get through Bayesian-based filters. I still love the idea and would love to see it applied to into tools like RSS Bandits. The idea would be to compute a "based on what you thought was interesting in past, you'll probably like these items in this order" view.
- Where would you go diamond ring shopping?
- You are a Systems Analyst for your company. You've noticed that people want to know when certain business facts and processes have changed. Push, pull, both or neither model? RSS or Atom or wait-and-see? Newsgator, RSS Bandit or portal integration?
- Make IIS6 HTTP response compression the default for sites or not? (assume all clients are either IE5 or IE6)
- What is Hilary Cotter thinking and how did he get to be so good?
- What is Tom Rizzo thinking and how did he go from Active Messaging to SQL Team Director?
- What is Philip Rieck thinking?
- What don't Luke, Sam and Joe blog more?
- The warmer a Cisco Aironet 340 PCMCIA card becomes, the less reliable it is.
- Why did Arrogant Bastard beat Eye of the Hawk, but Abbey lose to Grant's Mandrian? Where's the consistency?
- What really is ODMA, why does ProjectWise use it instead of HTTP? Does SharePoint support ODMA? Why are there no feed about ProjectWise?
- What do you get if you combine the CLR, Exchange, SharePoint and Content Management Server (other than what was Jupiter?)
- How do I arrange for Janell and myself to be in Seattle on 30 July or in Davenport, Iowa on 18 September?
- Honeymoon: Las Vegas, Ft. Collins or Black River Falls?
- The Patterns and Practices Summit: blow my budget for the rest of the year and go or not?
Taken out tonight: Repeating history.
The counts: Blogging: 9; Development: 19; Other: 11; SQL: 3;WILY: 3
Line of the night: Growing corn and pigs seems to be a fairly safe industry.
Post of the night: Real coders, real code.
I don't understand this one so I'm asking: why does SUS require 512mb of RAM when Windows Server 2003 is a mere 256mb. We're looking at deploying this quickly, but this question has come up. I'm guessing its something to with IIS and BITS. Is a requirement, a strong recommendation or just a recommendation?
Sorry for the out-of-band request, but I'm guessing my other readers would be interested too.
How cool is that?! The editors of DotNetJunkies (SqlJunkies sister site) decided to run the Peanut Butter Chicken article on Yukon as their article for the week.
Thanks! I'm honored.