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• HTC Touch As An iPhone Replacement

  In January of this year (2008), I was getting the itch to buy something to replace both my cell phone and my Palm PDA (I used the Palm as my MP3 player). I wanted an all-in-one solution so I wouldn't have to carry around two pieces of technology with... Posted Aug 17 2008, 08:32 AM by Andre Perusse with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Tech, Toys

• On The Edge (and falling off a cliff)

  UPDATE (Feb. 19, 2008): If you're too busy to read the book, take a look at this 8 minute video - it gives a pretty decent summary! Ars Technica recently began running a series on the history of the Amiga, my favourite computer of all time. From the... Posted Jan 06 2008, 01:38 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Rules for Checking In Code to Source Control

  The golden rule of checking in code is: Don't check in code that will break the build. Nobody likes code that won't compile. Also see Scott Hanselman's First Rule of Software Development . In order to help verify that your pending check-in... Posted Nov 14 2007, 02:50 PM by Andre Perusse with | with no comments Filed under: Tech, Source Control

• XBox 360 Fun

  I had been holding off buying an XBox 360 since I'm really not that much of a gamer and when I do play I totally suck anyway. For us non-gamer types, the XBox Live Marketplace sounds interesting since it offers high-definition movies, but alas as... Posted Sep 28 2007, 06:52 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech, Entertainment, Toys

• SQL Server 2005 Syntax Incompatible with SQL Server 2000

  On a recent project we use SQL Server 2005 for development but the product officially supports installation on both SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. During development we'll create tables in the database (using SQL 2005) using the GUI tools in... Posted Sep 26 2007, 07:22 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Tech, SQL Server

• A Cool ASP.NET 2.0 Feature (Well, Almost)

  Whenever I start a new web project, one of the first things I do is create a "Base" class for all my ASPX code-beside ( "code-behind" is so .NET 1.1 ) class declarations to inherit from. This makes it easy to have useful properties such as CurrentUser... Posted Jun 17 2007, 10:26 AM by Andre Perusse with | with no comments Filed under: Tech

• Making Reporting Services Work On Vista (64-bit)

  A couple of weeks ago I got a new laptop (that went along with my new job) and at the urging of some on my co-workers (and against my better judgement) I installed Vista Enterprise 64-bit on it. And that's another story all together. I also installed... Posted Jun 14 2007, 09:18 AM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Microsoft Adds Powerful Tool For Database Developers

  I've been dying to try out Microsoft's latest addition to the Visual Studio Team Suite set of products - Data Dude, or more properly know as Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals . Recently I finally took some time to watch a series... Posted Apr 08 2007, 04:44 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Bitten By Windows Genuine Advantage

  Last weekend I was home doing some paperwork and I had to send a fax to my insurance agent. I hadn't sent a fax in several months and not since I had reimaged my computer with Vista and Office 2007. So I opened Word and looked in the templates for a fax... Posted Mar 01 2007, 11:18 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Vista Revisited

  As you may recall, several months ago I installed the so-called "Release Candidate 1" version of Microsoft's latest consumer operating system, Vista. You may also recall that it was an absolutely horrid experience and I re-install Windows XP in a matter... Posted Feb 11 2007, 04:29 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Plextor DVD Writer - R.I.P.

  A couple of years ago I picked up my first DVD writer - a Plextor PX-712A . I was kinda proud of it because Plextor is a premium brand and most do-it-yourselfers in the build-your-own-PC world tend to use more mainstream and budget "OEM"-type brands such... Posted Feb 02 2007, 10:55 AM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Weather RADAR for Canada - a Yahoo Widget

  I seem to be obsessed with the weather lately. So are a lot of other people judging from the amount of weather-related widgets and "parts" for public portals. One of my favourites was a Yahoo widget that showed the precipitation RADAR imagery from Environment... Posted Jan 24 2007, 10:06 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• Amiga OS is Still Alive - Who Knew?

  I was rummaging through Digg this morning and I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw a headline on the front page that Amiga OS 4 had just been released. Ars Technica even posted a 6-page review of the new release. I haven't used an Amiga since 1997... Posted Jan 22 2007, 01:24 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech

• ASP.NET Sites and SharePoint Servers - A Match Made in Hell

  If you've installed SharePoint Services (2003 or 2007) on your web server, you will likely find that many of your ASP.NET sites no longer work properly or at all. Even if the ASP.NET is not in the "managed path" of the SharePoint server, it still causes... Posted Jan 17 2007, 02:58 PM by Andre Perusse with | with no comments Filed under: Tech

• Showstopper!

  I just finished reading a rather interesting book called Showstopper! written by G. Pascal Zachary in 1994. The book chronicles the development of Windows NT from its inception in the fall of 1988 until its first release in the summer of 1993. It is exceptionally... Posted Dec 26 2006, 01:54 PM by Andre Perusse with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tech