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Installing Win7 From a USB Drive
14 October 09 11:10 AM | russnem | with no comments

Friend and all around nice guy Steve Smith wrote this blog entry about how to install Windows 7 from a USB key. Quite a few steps, but I've done this before so I know it works. I began thinking what the Apple story would look like and smiled: 1. Download...

Filed under: General Software Development

Hosting - There *Is* a Difference!
12 August 09 01:10 PM | russnem | 36 comment(s)

Several weeks ago I did a WordPress installation on a friend's server so they could update their site themselves. They use GoDaddy for hosting because it was cheap. You get what you pay for. I can't stress this lesson strongly enough. Ever since I completed...

Filed under: General Software Development, Hosting

Thoughts on Mix, Ballmer, and the iPhone SDK
10 March 08 04:04 PM | russnem | 6 comment(s)

I am a software developer and architect (currently using Microsoft technologies) so of course I was interested to watch the sessions from the MIX conference that just happened last week in Las Vegas. Incidentally, I visited the on-demand web site for...

Filed under: General Software Development, Mobile, Internet Explorer, MIX, Silverlight

Code Analysis or Check-In Policy for Warnings
08 January 08 02:50 PM | russnem | with no comments

I've been doing a bunch of Google searches today trying to figure out how I might be able to raise a violation if somebody tries to do a check-in when there are more than 100 warnings in the solution. Because (as far as I know, anyway) the only object...

Filed under: Visual Studio, General Software Development

Multiple Sitemap Index Files in Robots.txt
21 September 07 04:00 PM | russnem | 35 comment(s)

I have been searching around using Google but I can't find an answer to this question. A robots.txt file can contain the following line: Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemapindex.xml but is it possible to specify MULTIPLE sitemap index files in the...

Filed under: General Software Development

Internet Explorer's Reign of Mediocrity
07 September 07 08:42 PM | russnem | 5 comment(s)

I saw this on digg.com today and I have to admit that I am one of the (apparently THOUSANDS) of people who are tired of having to tweak their standards-based code just so that IE 6 and 7 (MIcrosoft's browsers which do NOT adhere to web standards) can...

Filed under: General Software Development, Internet Explorer

MySpace & Me
08 August 07 09:31 PM | russnem | 7 comment(s)

I'm very excited to announce that Monday I joined MySpace as a Software Architect. This is a site that has 200,000,000 members and something like four billion page views a week. I can't back this up with paperwork, but I'm fairly sure this is one of ...

Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Team System, General Software Development, .NET, Agile, SQL Server

Backups in Today's World
10 June 07 06:30 PM | russnem | 12 comment(s)

Like many people in today's world I have an absolutely enormous amount of data stored on my various hard drives. Aside from my 320 GB+ of iTunes music and video, there's a significant number of photographs and well over 150 gigs of captured and rendered...

Filed under: General Software Development

My New Blog
27 April 07 11:25 AM | russnem | 8 comment(s)

Over the past year or so my blog posts have spanned subjects much more diverse than just Microsoft technologies and developing in a Microsoft world. To that end, I have created a more general-purpose blog that I hope my current subscribers will check...

Filed under: General Software Development

Shaking Things Up: Scrum, Agile, and TDD
17 January 07 08:49 AM | russnem | 10 comment(s)

In mid September I started working as a vendor for Microsoft. The majority of my time involves coding. Prior to September I had only a vague idea of what scrum and test-driven development were. Scrum aside, I just couldn't understand why anyone would...

Filed under: General Software Development, C#, .NET, Agile