Archives
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Blogged-down, Blogcrastinating, & Blogstipated
...are a few words that could describe my past year (or so) of blogging activity. I have so many thoughts zipping around in my mind that I just cant find time or motivation to go code, post, and purge them - I feel completely mentally constipated. Somehow I always seem to be bogged-down on focusing on my projects at work or busy with the family that it leaves little time for serious contemplation or even the occasional playful troll. I really must purge these thoughts & ideas in the form of blog posts before I burst!!
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Requests for Sql Reporting Services v.Next team:
I recently completed a project in which I think I utilized every API and every extensibility point available within Sql Server 2005 Reporting Services and walked away from the experience feeling soiled, smelly, and dirty. This wasnt my first time exploring this territory, since my last job utilized Sql Server 2000 Reporting Services, and involved several custom data extensions and some custom "function assemblies" for creating barcodes an other custom functionality within from reports. However, this time I think i really gained a better sense of how close the whole system is to being really good and how disappointing it is that the Sql Server 2005 team seemed to focus more on new features than on improving the integration and extension story.
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Virtual Disk Conversions
I recently wanted to retry the idea of using virtual development environments instead of developing locally on my PC so that I can have several pre-built development and test environments that are tailored to each deployment target. Having dabbled at this a couple times before, I already had some images available to use.
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Troubleshooting Sql Reporting Services custom assemblies (extensions & what not)
I dont have time for a lengthy post, so here is some link-love for some great articles that have helped me lately with some data extensions and other custom code I am writing for Sql Server 2005 Reporting Services: