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August 2006 - Posts

Quotes: The Gipper

posted Monday, August 28, 2006 10:07 PM by mitchell
“We’ve come to a moment in our history when party labels are unimportant. Philosophy is all important. Little men with loud voices cry doom, saying little is good in America. They create fear and uncertainty among us. Millions of Americans, especially Read More
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Ungrace: Perception is Everything

posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:32 AM by mitchell
From the Out of Ur blog comes this recent post: Every generation is quick to point out the hypocrisy of the one that preceded it. The generation born just after WWII began rejecting the values of their parents during the '60s. Now it's their kids' Read More
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Quotes: G.K. Chesterton

posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:23 PM by mitchell
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.” —G. K. Chesterton Read More
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Typed DataSets and Connection Strings

posted Monday, August 21, 2006 12:07 PM by mitchell
I'm playing with the Typed DataSets in VS2005, and the more I dig into them the more I find that I like. I did, however, run into an immediate problem when I took the typed dataset out of the main project and placed it into it's own project: I could Read More
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7 Virtues for Software Developers

posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:53 AM by mitchell
K. Scott Allen has a post, inspired by  Eric Gunnerson's 7 Deadly Sins of Programming, on the 7 Virtues of Software Developers. I would humility at the top of that list. Knowing when you don't know something is the key to becoming a great developer Read More
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Process Template Schemas from Microsoft

posted Friday, August 11, 2006 7:41 PM by mitchell
The Process Template Schemas for customizing process templates (as I talked about earlier) for us in Team Foundation Server are now available for download. Here's some guidance from Rob Caron about using Visual Studio to author Work Items utilizing Read More
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Quotes: James Madison

posted Friday, August 11, 2006 3:15 PM by mitchell
"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." —James Madison Read More
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Team Foundation Server Install Options: IIS on the Database

posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 3:33 PM by mitchell
Brian Keller quickly and succinctly answered one of the burning questions we have been debating internally since we first started investigating TFS. He was gracious enough not to point out "it's in the documentation, dummy". He's got some other good information Read More
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Guidance Automation Unistall Issues

posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:11 AM by mitchell
BEWARE! I just spent half an hour cleaning out my registry because the GAT, GAX, and WSE Policy Advisor wouldn't uninstall. I'm still unclear about whether it's an issue with the uninstallers themselves or because I started out of order, but be careful. Read More
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Quotes: Marcus Aurelius

posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:17 PM by mitchell
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." —Marcus Aurelius Read More
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Service Modeling Language Specification Released

posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:01 AM by mitchell
The Dynamic Systems Initiative people at Microsoft have released the Service Modeling Language (SML) specification. Check it out. Correction: It's not just Microsoft. Cisco, HP, IBM, etc. and others are represented as well. (The links Read More
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Quotes: Winston Churchill

posted Monday, August 07, 2006 11:55 AM by mitchell
"You ask: What is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. However long or hard the road may be, for without Victory there is no survival." -- Winston Churchill (from a speech given in 1940). Read More
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Quotes: Henry George

posted Monday, August 07, 2006 11:35 AM by mitchell
"It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each Read More
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Quotes: Thomas Jefferson

posted Friday, August 04, 2006 8:18 PM by mitchell
"It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among opponents who...transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions." -- Thomas Jefferson Read More
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