June 2005 Entries

Well folks, I'm going offline for a while. I'm moving into a new place and my phone and internet won't be set up for a number of days. I love the precision that Telus gives. "We have an opening between 1pm and 6pm if that works for you?" Hello? It's going to take 5 hours to check my phone line and switch on my ADSL? Apparently they can't narrow this down to a specific hour or two so that us working folks don't have to take a half day off to sit and wait...

Well folks, I've finally started to be a profit center for the company. Actually, let me rephrase that. I've finally started to be a revenue center for the company. I have 2 full months of nothingness that I must generate revenue to offset before I can become a profit center. So I did start at the beginning of this week. The project has a fairly simple web front end and middle tiers with a rather convoluted data provisioning model at the back end. I won't be posting any specifics about the project (geek -...

If you're interested in hardware/software scalability take a look at the numbers that the MS Exchange Team posted here. Unbe-bloody-lievable.