Daily Archives: November 29, 2004

What DO you do all day long?

Just Rambling

My hubby and I have a new joke. It stems from the fact that he gets up at 6, leaves the house by 6:45 anrd doesn’t get home until about 6:30 pm. I do NOT get up at 6. I usually get up about 7 and then of course I have to pet the dogs for about 20 minutes. So he’s long gone by the time I’m up dressed and downstairs. We usually chat before he comes home – maybe to have him pick up a pizza or milk or something. Really it’s mostly because I just miss him. He has decided to tease me now that I really do that to figure out what time he is getting home so that I can be sure to be downstairs in the office with the computer on so that as he drives up the road and sees the lights and glow of the computer screen, he will be tricked into thinking I have been sitting there all day.

It’s definitely a plague of a contractor who works at home. People really think you might just be hanging out or doing anything but working. (Rich doesn’t really think so though). Friends sometimes call to chat during the day and I have to figure out how to get back to work without them thinking that I don’t love them enough to want to talk to them. If a client calls and I don’t answer the phone, they might think I’m out skiing or something. Clients calling in the morning often ask if they woke me.

I have been working for myself since about 1989…that’s 15 years. But this never seems to change. Sigh.

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Whither goes whidbey and wse?

WSE

One of the very frequently asked questions on the WSE newsgroup is “what about whidbey”. Right now, you just can’t use WSE 2 with Whidbey (okay so I’m having fun with these W’s…). But (via Matt Powell) Hervey says that some of the worst hindrances have been dealt with and we should be able to start experimenting with WSE & Whidbey when WSE 2 sp2 comes out. Ahh, there go the rest of my Friday nights! 😉 Whoopee.

update: chatting with Softwaremaker, I learned that he was using WSE2.0 SP1 with Whidbey with no problem. I had never even tried it!

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Java Developer for hire

Jobs

Looking for a Java Developer with a strong background as a sysadmin? A girl with brains and spunk to boot? A person with some serious e-commerce experience? Someone who could probably learn C# faster than you could say, ummm, I can’t finish this sentence, sorry.  A programmer that would be a lot of fun to have in the office and definitely one that you want on your team if someone is even thinking of bullying you? Look no further….

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Roman Rehak’s weekly sql server tips

Community Cheerleading

Roman is one of my favorite SQL Server gurus. Okay, maybe I’m jaded becuase he lives nearby and is a GREAT cook, too! Roman is now posting weekly SQL Server tips on his blog. I emailed him and said “really?  YOu are going to keep this up every week??” and he definitely plans to. Roman is a wealth of knowledge so this will be great.

This week’s tip (2nd week) is about a problem I know personally. Connecting to SQL Server over VPN. I am a good example of someone who did just give up and go with SQL Authentication. Roman explains a work around to use Windows Authentication.

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What does your dummy data look like

Just Rambling

oops. Looks like Target’s dummy data got out into the live database. It’s definitely hard for large corporations to have a sense of humor about something like that. But as a number of people have noted, the bloggers have really gone to town on this.

So if you’re dummy data snuck out onto a website by mistake, what would you be hawking or promoting. I’ve got lots of job requests with clients like “G.B.” (my cat) requesting “feed me, dammit”. I would be selling my pets off one by one. I would have speakers at Vermont.NET named Joe Blow who are presenting on fascinating topics like “Al Gore and the invention of the Internet”.

I once worked with a company whose place holder error messages somehow got deployed into a demo package. They weren’t very flattering to the user who forgot to enter a person’s last name in the record data entry.

I dunno – I definitely looked at the Target thing from the perspective of a developer and felt serious sympathy for the person who let that slip through.

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