Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category

Getting Your Work Day Started Late

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Since I have started working from home, I have noticed that there is a direct relation between the intensity and quality of my work day, and the hour of the day in which I actually start working. The magic time seems to be somewhere between 11am and 12pm. If I ...

Where Vista Fails

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Paul Thurotte has just completed his five part review of the latest beta release of Windows Vista, build 5308, the first "feature complete" release of Vista to reviewers. Through the first four parts of the review (1, 2, 3, 4), Paul described what seemed like some pretty exciting stuff that he ...

Bad Projects, Bad Clients

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

Two great articles: 10 Bad Project Warning Signs from Andy Budd and 11 Clients You Need to Fire Right Now from Christopher Hawkins.

Intel + Apple = ?

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Are Intel and Apple merging? Robert Cringley thinks so.

How-To-Select Guides

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

New from Mike Gunderloy (of Daily Grind fame), this site will be hosting guides relating to different types of .Net components. From the site: Our goal is simple: we want to bring you the comprehensive, unbiased information that you need to make an informed choice when picking the components that you ...

Combine Web and Windows Services to Run Your ASP.NET Code at Scheduled Intervals

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

See the article with this title from MSDN Magazine's March 2005 issue. The basic flow of the article: Create a Web Service that will be called to run the jobs Create a Windows Service that will call the web service at specified intervals. Create installation package. Create classes ...