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I’m working with Microsoft SharePoint on my current project. I came across this great error message when viewing the SharePoint documentation on MSDN:

Posted 28 June 2007 † Peter § Programming ‡ Comments (0) °

Microsoft sucks

I wasted too much time today trying to figure out why I couldn’t connect to my local Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express using JDBC. There were a few issues:
1) Microsoft does not enable listening by TCP/IP by default. Go to SQL Server Configuration Manager. Expand SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration. Click on Protocols for SQLEXPRESS. [...]

Posted 24 May 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Microsoft: Asian female programmers wanted

Microsoft must be having such a hard time getting software engineers to develop in .NET that they’re going after female Asian teenagers:

“Look, programming in .NET is so much fun!”

Posted 22 May 2007 † Peter § Programming ‡ Comments (0) °

Laptop bag

My current consumerist obsession is finding a semi-professional (I am using that adjective very loosely) laptop bag. My current laptop bag is an MEC backpack, which I love, but is not professional looking at all. Some of the bags I’m considering aren’t commonly considered professional-looking (especially the Crumpler and Timbuk2) but I think if I [...]

Posted 04 May 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

The Blogger Code of Conduct

If you are up-to-date on the happenings of the blogosphere, you probably know about the Kathy Sierra incident and how that’s led to some prominent bloggers and technologists calling for a voluntary Blogger’s Code of Conduct to define civil behavior in the blogosphere.
Here is Tim O’Reilly’s Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct and his [...]

Posted 02 May 2007 † Peter § ‡ Comments (0) °