I am going through the process of setting up SVN on Windows and later will be adding authentication via Active Directory. I plan to post about each step along the way, as a resource to myself for future work, and maybe it will help someone else as well. Basic Installation and Setup Instructions Environment: Subversion [...]

In conducting research for computer science topics, I often find myself with huge CSV files that I open in Excel and try to make graphs. Often, I have way too many data points to graph. Sometimes, I do fancy things in my code to produce only a certain number of data points that are averages [...]

A little while back I wrote a blog post about how I wasn’t very excited about the news of Google’s new browser, Chrome. My feeling being that we have some pretty good browsers already, and I wished people would focus on making other improvements instead of reinventing the wheel, and trying to force all web [...]

I have been using another site to host my blog, but I have been much more impressed with WordPress as of late, so I think I’m going to switch over here. I’m dreading the tasking of moving over old posts and trying to keep old URL’s consistent, so we’ll have to see what happens there. [...]

The release of Firefox 3 generated lots of excitement, and now we’re looking at a new browser from both Google and Microsoft in the wake. Why does everyone want to invent the next great browser, they’re all great. Let’s advance the web field in other ways. Browsers today are so comparable that I really don’t [...]

I haven’t used the Team Suite of the Visual Studio projects, so I can’t speak to their effectiveness, but it seems that Microsoft has obviously shifted their focus there instead of trying to further the Visual Source Safe product line. The release of Visual Source Safe 2005 was a token release at best. It supposedly [...]

In Outlook (I specifically use Outlook 2007), I love the new mail alert features where the sound is played, the semi-transparent desktop alert is shown, and the envelope is shown in the system tray. This keeps you from having to constantly check your inbox for new mail, and yet be able to ignore messages without [...]

For a project at work, I have been developing an ASP.Net app using .Net version 3.5. I have been using the built in Cassini web server for development, but finally the moment of truth came to put it on IIS on our development server and I had a few hickups. I am using Windows Server [...]

VMWare workstation will automatically generate MAC addresses for your virtual machines to keep them from colliding. If you need to set it manually you must change a few lines in the .vmx configuration file. change: ethernet[number].addressType to “static”change: ethernet[number].generatedAddress to: ethernet[number].address and set your address. delete any other ethernet[number].generated* for more information: http://www.vmware.com/support/esx21/doc/esx21admin_MACaddress.html

Microsoft has several different versions of SQL Server 2005. If you are looking for a truly enterprise solution, you’ll have to shell out the money for that one. Otherwise, many times one of the lighter versions can be sufficient. Here is a link to a Microsoft page outlining the specific differences between each version: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/features/compare-features.mspx [...]