It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that my company’s IT department was bracing for a major new line of work. Back in the mid 1990s, we were going full steam into client-server technology. At the same time, we were significantly expanding our workforce. The IT department that had spent years as an old-style mainframe shop, was suddenly inundated with requests for new workstations, network user IDs, new network domains, permission requests, and requests for application access privileges. Our lone mainframe permissions person quickly felt overwhelmed and a little baffled by all of these … [Read more...]
August 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Adobe Air is almost able to challenge Apple iTunes for "most-hated-too-frequent updating" software … [Read more...]
DBTA: The New Master’s Certification from Microsoft
August 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In July, Microsoft announced its new advanced training and certification program known as the Master’s Certification. (Read more about it at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/default.mspx). I’m really excited about this new certification because it fully lives up to the standard of “the appropriate certification for the appropriate audience.” For one thing, if you’ve ever gone to a martial arts school, you may find many talented martial artists and even several black belts there, but you’ll rarely find more than one “master.” Expect this new SQL Server certification to be equally … [Read more...]
August 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Answered 300 emails last night. 141 new ones came in this morning. :^( … [Read more...]
August 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I've added a new blog post detailing my opinions about the demise of Google Wave. Read it here: http://ping.fm/kboBA … [Read more...]
