Joseph Fluckiger's Blog

Today I presented at the Microsoft DevCares event at the InfoMart in Dallas. As promised I have made available the powerpoints and the VS solutions that I used for the demo. Here are the contents for Microsoft DevCares sponsored by Tekfokus: 1) Lap around Visual Studio Orcas Powerpoint 2) Linq and Data Access in Visual Studio Orcas Powerpoint 3) solution containing demos for ASP.NET 4) solution containing demos for LINQ These documents can be found in this direcotry http://fluckiger.org/joeblogpics/2007-05-25_devCares/ It was a great presentation today at DevCares and a good turnout with 31 developers in attendance. It is amazing how many new great features are being released in this version of Visual Studio. Note you will need to make one modification to the LINQ solution demo, you will need to change the SQL connection string to (insert your path): -pass in the filename using a "user instance" connection in your sql connection string like so: "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;...

Here are some useful numbers for relative data retrieval speeds: Data that lives here... ...will take this long to access CPU Register < 1 nanosecond CPU cache 2 nanoseconds RAM 50 nanoseconds Disk 12,000,000 nanoseconds Somewhere in that pile of paper on your desk 42,000,000,000 nanoseconds (Note that a nanosecond is 1 billionth of a second.) This was taken from a blog by mozy: http://mozy.com/blog/2006/06/13/defrag-the-mozy-way

Virtualization is becomming very popular. The benefits are many and there are two leading products: VMware GSX and Microsoft Virtual PC, but which is faster? I ran some performance tests using passmark performance tester 6.1. VMware GSX is WAY faster than Microsoft virtual PC. Look at the processor and disk marks, they are twice as high for VMware GSX! Microsoft VM = Operating system is Windows server 2003 diskmark =246 processor test= 316 memory =356 Vmware : Opperating system is Windows server 2003 disk=791 processor test = 690 memory=414 Both virtual hard disks are on the same M drive. The M drive consists of 2 10k Raptor drives in a RAID0 (sriped) configuration. My host box is a Dell Precision 690 and the processor is a dual core Pentium, and 2 gigs of ram.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long long time, and finally I have figured it out. My perfect network is coming together!   The key was given to me, as frequently is, by some smart folks at experts-exchange.com in this question: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Windows_Networking/Q_22548593.html    

I found a useful post which gives you "secret" access to sharepoint. By directly editing the query strings at the end of the URL (behind the ? ) you can gain direct access to sharepoint views and features without having to use the builtin navigation links. This can save you some clicking when the site is slow and also give you new, hidden functionality in sharepoint. http://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2004/10/11/240863.aspx -Joseph

This is a test Blog from Word 2007. Word has definitely been at the top of my worst software list (along with powerpoint and project) but this blog feature in 2007 definitely gives it a demotion in the worst catgory. - You have the advantages of a local editor, including fast and personalized spell checking, full screen editing with complete hot-keys, etc. And you don't have to open up yet another browser window to get lost among the tabs! -Then with one click you can publish, and it remembers your login/password. viola! a new post. Posting using email is is a pretty cool option as well. All you do is send an email to joseph.someemail@blogspot.com and blogger creates a post for me. The drawback is that it does a really poor job of formatting. You'll notice some of my posts have random line breaks, these are posts I have made by sending an email. I'm expecting that Word will do a better job. Another fear was that Word would create some crazy HTML, but it seems to have kept i...

I just had a great idea. I want to build a robot that can scale everest and clean off all the disposed compressed air canisters. I watched a special this week on Discovery channel: "Everest, Beyond the Limit". It was a great show, but the most dramatic moment of the show was when the expedition passed an injured and dying climber and they just had to leave him on the side of the mountain, because the air is so thin and the terrain so rugged that it is pretty much impossible to pull a man down from the mountain. And lots of people have died up there and there are all these dead bodies on the trail up the mountain. There are also lots of disposed air cannisters laying around. And it is never going to get any easier or any more possible for humans or hellicopters to get up there. But a robot could do it. A robot could bring home those discarded cannisters. There is just something about knowing the top of the world is clean. And then it could also rescue people who couldn't g...