VMware Server 2.x and Windows 2003

Date November 7, 2008

After having some performance issues with VMware server 1.x, we decided to upgrade to the 2.x release. It wasn’t long after executing the setup binary that I had issues…

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MSBuild, and Evaluating ItemGroups

Date October 26, 2008

As previous mentioned, I’ve been dropped the lovely project of managing, and automating the build processes for all of our application suites. I’m getting to learn some interesting stuff about automated builds, and finding some interesting quirks, such as the evaluation of ItemGroups.

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Wrapping my head around iCal

Date October 11, 2008

iCal is a specification used to define the format of a calendar. It’s an RFC standard. I started tinkering with it a few years back with SquirrelMail, but my curiosity about it was again peeked when I decided to try figuring a way to sync my new toy with Google Calendar

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100+ Reasons to use carry-on

Date October 9, 2008

100+ reasons to carry-on when flying.

Visual Studio Projects, and Multiple Environments

Date October 8, 2008

I’ve recently been put in control of managing the source control, and deployments in the office. It’s an interesting project, and I’m looking back over some of the stuff we’ve done to get our mass of code to work, build, and roll out to 4 different environments. However, I wanted something more manageable, and flexible, that we could use it through our entire product line, instead of having to customize it for each project/product.

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Visual Studio, IIS, ASP.NET, and bad ordering

Date October 7, 2008

For a while, I’ve been doing a little bit of development work, build configurations, and the likes. I’ve had everything running inside a Virtual PC instance due to issues (detailed in Expanding Virtual PC Disks). We’re looking to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 soon, so I decided to pre-jump.

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Bah…

Date October 4, 2008

How am I supposed to start doing fun development projects with my new toy, if the MSDN site is broken.

On a side note, before it went all pear shaped, I did manage to grab some pretty cool “How To…” videos here. I’m going to be doing some random stuff for both me, and possibly work.

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*drool*

Date September 18, 2008

I’m not one for the MMORPG, but I used to play the original games of this with my brother and father… It used to be rather fun, although sometimes long… So this cross my eyes from Mythic Entertainment, so now I’m intrigued.

New Toys…

Date September 8, 2008

My new toy.

Axe (Lynx) enters the world of Ghost hunting…

Date September 8, 2008

Every parent knows that ghosts hide under the bed, along with their colleges, witches, skeletons, and other such scary things.

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