On another thread on the XP list, we’ve been discussing some ideas around moderation after a certain, um incident, which some people agree with and some don’t. The idea was brought up to perhaps next time have a discussion about the moderation, and come to an agreement by consent rather than consensus (for more about…
Sorting messages by Thread using Thunderbird and Outlook
Recently on the XP mailing list, we were having a discussion about readbility of the list, given the number of messages we see a day. I mentioned that I use the thread feature of Thunderbird to sort everything by threads, and had several people ask me about it. Since I also use it in Outlook,…
Used CDs in Florida
Over the past few years, I’ve had a special liking to the music of Tool. Don’t ask me why, but there it is. I had been trying to track down a used CD store here in Tampa to find an album I used to have, plus see if they had any others. But all the…
Silverlight, “Cross-Platform” and, what else, DRM
There has been much hubbub over Silverlight and it’s touting of being “Cross-platform”, especially since “Cross-platform” means Windows and OSX 10.4.8 or later. How can it be a “flash-killer” and call itself “cross-platform” if it doesn’t run everywhere Adobe’s Flash does? Now it makes sense. In the FAQ for Silverlight, it became apparent why it’s not supported…
VSTS/TFS performance
Ayende Rahien, the creator of RhinoMocks, has an interesting blog post in which he talks about the troubles he’s had with TFS, and he advises people to avoid it: Latency is a killer here, TFS has a always connected model, which means that it drives me crazy when I want to edit several files,…
Silverlight and Ruby
When I first heard about Silverlight, Microsoft’s new “Flash killer”, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. Flash has been around for a long time, and is a great way to do various cross-platform things, since it runs in the browser and (mostly) behaves the same way across platforms. How would Silverlight match…
40′ Satellite Dishes and other things
In a recent post I talked about the house I grew up in, which had, among other things, a 40′ satellite dish (one of 5 working dishes) in addition to two towers, tracking domes and a whole treasure trove of cool electronic gear. I had several people comment that it was hard to believe, so just…
Call me anything you want…except in Quebec
My official title is “Premier Field Engineer” which means that I travel a lot working with our customers who hold Premier contracts. Because of the world-wide nature of our business, we sometimes have to travel to different places. This often means that we have to deal with different cultures. Turns out we now have to…
Using Team System with WSS 3.0
Brian Keller has posted the notes from the presentation on converting Team Foundation Server to use WSS v3.0. I’d personally still recommend teams wait until Orcas when 3.0 should be baked in, but if it is a need in your organization, here’s the info.
I’ve been tagged…
Oh dear. I’ve been tagged by Alan Ridlehoover. I’ve seen it go around, and I figured once it got past Brady Gaster I’d be safe, but I guess not. So, here’s 5 things you may not know about me: 1. Like Alan, I am a drummer. And a Guitar player. And a keyboardist. And a bassist. In…