Contents tagged with Miscellaneous
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A Technical Packrat
My name is Vince and I'm a technical packrat. ( Hello Vince.... )
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The .Net Micro Framework Event in Dallas
This is a mention of the event that came and went last weekend for the .Net Micro Framework here in Dallas at the Improving Enterprises offices. Shawn Weisfeld worked on the event for the last 6 months. Shawn pushed the moderately priced package from FEZ that proved to be an excellent product. We all met last Saturday and went through some exercises to understand how to develop most of the basic tasks to interact with the plug and play hardware. When the day was over, we all had a great understanding of how to create .Net application with Visual Studio 2010 and deploy to this device. It's so much easier than the Windows CE deployments.
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Good Times on the New Contract
Just a note to the blog to say that my current contract has been going well. I'm working on contract direct from with own company, FreshMetrics, LLC. I get to have lunch with Rob Vetter (C# MVP) from next door. We get to catch up on user group stuff more often now. The work is great and the team is very serious about the art of software. It's much more silo'd and quiet than what I'm used to, but that can be a good thing. I've been heads down with systems analysis, user interviews, and plenty of documentation before building the final application. It's refreshing to actually have the license to discover instead of hack and go, then wonder when unit tests come into the picture if at all. I've been pushing myself to do things right with analysis, peer review, and now I'm almost done with unit testing. Yes - true TDD. It's been hard not hitting the WPF and WCF services first, but the application is much better already.
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Catching Up
Today was my last day on the extended Intuit contract. Now I’m off to find the next great team to work with. If anyone has projects that can be outsourced or new contracts, I’m looking.
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Another Contract Ends - Hanging Out the Shingle
My current contract at Intuit is ending in a few weeks. I'm heading into a possible slow period so it's a good time to catch the blog up a little. If nothing else but to remind myself what I've been doing through this year since leaving Notion Solutions.
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If I Ran Microsoft
I saw the "If I Ran Microsoft" video online today. It mentioned the public image for Microsoft and the great things that they do. The video showed the "We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend". It was a big deal for those charities that now have a great system to do their charity work with. I'm so glad that I had a part in it this year.
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On The Blog Again
On the blog again…I just can’t wait to get on the blog again…(Willie Nelson...)
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Fixed: Disk Drive Suddenly Slows Down
I bought a really nice AMD 64 X2 4400+ Dual Core over 6 months ago. We all need one, but then if we don't have 64 bit software...