Contents tagged with Rants amp; Raves
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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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Recruiting professionally in the small world of IT.
Face it, the IT world is a tiny tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone either directly or indirectly through our own private game of 6-degrees of separation. So, why do most employers treat potential recruits more like pesky cold-calling-vendors than like valued potential future clients?
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BaitAndSwitchWare stinks!
I hate it when I download a "free" utility that has an auto-updater that is later used to deliver an update that cripples the original utility and asks you to buy an upgrade.
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Google Reader Updated
Last year, Google Reader was released by Google Labs, and it looked intriguing, so I imported my OPML and started adding feeds.
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"The Firm"
From now on, I will simply refer to my employer as "The Firm" for simplicity's sake.
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Scott (Telligent), where is our blogging relationship going?
Back in the days when this blog site was "dotnetweblogs.com" it was exciting and fun because it was new and ever-changing. Like watching your niece or nephew growing up, it was fun to see the improvements and changes that Scott introduced to the site each month (sometimes each week or day). Not that blogs were new, but I was new to blogs, this was a new blog engine, and it was written in .NET and dedicated to .NET which made it uber-cool.
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FW: IT Work: Contract Sadness
This article hit WAY too close to home for me:
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Google Desktop Search 2 kicks butt!
Google just released a new version of their Google Desktop Search software. It has tons of configuration options and a new "sidebar" to help you keep information ready at your fingertips. As a developer, I also like the extensibility which now includes many 3rd-party file parsers and sidebar add-ins. If you are interested in writing your own plugins, there are even a couple .NET Wrappers available.
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I'm going to PDC05!
I got a late approval today from management to go to PDC! Woohoo!
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Recommendation: Books For Nerds
A coworker sent me this link recently: www.nerdbooks.com