Thoughts from The Cuckoo's Egg

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll has been around for a while, having been published in 1989. It details how...

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

    On a recommendation, I picked up this book by Ralph Kimball. I remember it coming out years ago and I...

QA/QC

I wrote a small commentary on quality control today and I'm surprised it didn't get more reaction.

I'm not a great...

Hot Fixes

I wrote about Hot Fixes being inclusive of previous hot fixes. Someone questioned this and so I went back to...

Post Timeouts

Well one problem was solved. Or at least identified.

We've had an issue for a few years where you'd hit the...

Late Projects

I was talking with Andy Warren, my partner and fellow partner here, today about the Code Camp in Orlando last...

Ambition

I was always someone that was ambitious as a kid. For whatever reason, I've been driven most of my life...

Whitepaper on ESX Server 3.0 and SAN-attached Storage

First saw this at Blade Watch. VMWare has released a white paper on using SANs with VMWare ESX Server 3.0....

Updated Website

I've taken some time to update my website. In particular I have updated:
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Nothing fancy or special, but...

Windows PowerShell and Windows Server 2003 SP2

Saw this on the Windows PowerShell blog:

Since W2K3 SP2 is an update to W2K3 SP1, if you install Powershell on...