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Economics

Economics….like I know shite about this. I hardly passed my first year micro and macro courses, but I think I’ve gained a greater appreciation of these subject as I’ve become more aged. Mostly I hav

DevTeach 2006

It’s been confirmed. I am going to DevTeach in Montreal in a couple of weeks and I’m really looking forward to this for a number of reasons. I’m really geeked up about the knowledge I’m going to abso

Hardware Nirvana

David Weiss blogs here about an impressive stack of hardware that he supports for use in a test lab at Microsoft. Yep they’re all Macs…and yes you did read that right. They’re all at Microsoft. The

User Group Meeting Content

One of the big reasons that Steven R, Steve Y, Brad, Mike M and I originally picked up the idea of starting the Edmonton .NET User Group was because we wanted better meeting content quality. Steven R

Community Server 2.0 "Skin Not Found"

So I upgraded to Community Server 2.0 RTM back about a month ago and since then I’ve been fighting to get my favourite skin (Foggy Valley) to run on my site. Every time I’d switch the skin from one t

RDD - Report Driven Design

It seems that everyone has their own methodology now. It may be TDD, XP, Agile, RUP or some other flavour of the month. Last night, while I was less than sober, I had a conversation with Mike about

Methodologies

I was out at a local establishment indulging in a few sinful liquids when the conversation turned to the fact that neither myself or my companion could identify with the new wave of methodologies. We

www.geekswithblogs.com got spammed hard!

I went to www.geekswithblogs.com tonight and found that they’d been spammed hard. Someone had setup a blog and was posting to the main feed abot cialis and other such “inflamitory” drugs. Pretty fun

Page not found (404) error on a new IIS6 server

Today I have been fighting with a problem on our new IIS6 testing environments. I’ve installed all the software onto the servers and then opened IIS and browsed to one of the .aspx pages in the newly