Jeffrey Palermo posted some links to articles that dig further into a discussion about developer/testers and tester/developers. One thing that becomes apparent fairly quickly when running in an ef...

Lately, it seems like at least once or twice a day, I get a great little error message when I load up google reader. It simply says, “Oops! That wasn’t supposed to happen.” Isn’t that a fantastic, ...

Calling regsvr32.exe against a COM dll will give you a 0x80004005 error from DllRegisterServer. As it turns out, the UAC in Vista was what was causing this. The way to get around th...

People have sent me email wondering why I decided to cancel my webhost4life account. Originally, I felt very happy with the account, however, what I noticed was that service quickly deteriorated. T...

Earlier today, we tried deploying an application to our clustered test environment. The application had gone through a fairly rigorous amount of testing and had passed with flying colors. The stra...

Robert Scoble posted a question to Barack Obama regarding whether or not he has met with any bloggers yet. I find this very interesting in a number of ways, including the fact that bloggers helped ...

Bil Simser recently asked this question of Scott Bellware, a Microsoft MVP: “Why NUnit and not VSTS since the mothership is your home? I’m all for NUnit and whatnot, but I thought this would be...

This meme tag is going around. The idea is that Im supposed to tell you five things that most people do not know about me, and then in an effort to keep it going I’m supposed to tag five more. I wa...

This little piece of wscript works wonders when you’re attempting to determine where you live in the active directory. Set objADSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") wscript.echo objADSysInfo.Use...

I’ve looked through a number of books and websites in the period of time that I’ve been becoming more familiar with the stroke of genius that is Ruby on Rails. I’ve noticed that the majority of the...