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Work with me!

posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:00 PM by rrinaldi
Well, not just me, but Ray, Richard, and a host of others. The company I work for, Trading Technologies (I refuse to link to the exceptionally ugly homepage, but google and you shall find), is looking for a wonderful, super smart, cool tester guy (or Read More
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Number 3 in Chicago.

posted Monday, October 11, 2004 4:39 PM by rrinaldi
This news is a little old, and I can't believe I forgot to post it, but my employer, Trading Technologies, was voted the number 3 workplace in Chicago! NBC coverage here, and our press release can be found on our site here. Read More
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Ray has been busy!

posted Monday, May 03, 2004 12:31 PM by rrinaldi
So Ray goes on a blogging hiatus for months, then comes back and slaps us silly with some posts about buggy cookies, HttpModules, control layout, and Outlook rules trickery! Read More
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How about you support the standards, mkay?

posted Monday, April 26, 2004 5:18 PM by rrinaldi
I've been working on some vCard/vCalendar export code at work for the past couple of days, the main purpose being to import the resulting vCard/vCalendar files into Outlook.  The problem being that Outlook doesn't have any decent support for the Read More
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SQL Server Documentation Bug

posted Monday, March 22, 2004 5:26 PM by rrinaldi
At work I needed to find a way to store an obscene amount of text in our database.  Either I could use a varchar(7000+) datatype or I could shoot performance in the head and use the text datatype.  The problem was that most of the time Read More
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FIX: Data Loss When You Switch View in WebForm Designer

posted Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:58 PM by rrinaldi
This bug hits me quite often, and first thing Monday I'm going to apply the patch.  This is pretty fresh off of kbAlertz, so I thought I would pass it on. FIX: Data Loss When You Switch View in WebForm Designer When you change the view of a WebForm Read More
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SOA and Exceptions

posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:40 PM by rrinaldi
So Ray and I were discussing SOA at the office today and trying to figure out how to handle exceptions gracefully.  When you get an exception from a webservice all you get is a SoapException.  That doesn't tell you much.  Take this example: Read More
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Name the flags in Outlook 2003

posted Friday, February 06, 2004 2:33 PM by rrinaldi
Via Jim Blizzard, via Marc's office zealot blog, via KC Lemson over at weblogs.asp.net a great way to make the flags in Outlook 2003 actually meaningful.     Read More
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Office 2003 causing reboots?

posted Friday, January 16, 2004 2:56 PM by rrinaldi
Richard seems to be having a hell of a time with Office 2003.  Every time he opens Outlook his machine spontaneously reboots.  Anybody out there experience anything similar?  Anybody know how to fix it? Read More
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Want to rename the Junk E-mail folder in Outlook 2003?

posted Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:38 PM by rrinaldi
Well you can't. I just upgraded to Office 2003 today and so far I like it.  Outlook 2k3 is fan-freakin'-tastic.  Almost a lickable interface. (The shnozberries taste like shnozberry.) Since I use SpamBayes for Spam filtering I had a folder Read More
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Reviews and status reports

posted Monday, January 12, 2004 5:23 PM by rrinaldi
How do you do status reviews? At the office we currently have: 1.) Weekly status reports - These are 1 or 2 line synopsis's of what we are currently doing, estimated completion date, any extraneous info that needs to be bubbled up the management chain Read More
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