Archive for the 'misc' Category
Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4 and new theme
September 2nd, 2006I’ve finally managed to upgrade my blog to the latest version of WordPress (I was still running 1.5.2!). I’ve also updated the blog theme to match the look of my products. Just to be sure to not break anything and because I had a VM with MySQL and Apache that I setup some time ago, [...]
MSDE not supported on Windows Vista
August 14th, 2006This may be old news for you, but I’ve just discovered that MSDE will not be supported on Vista. After thinking about it, it is not a big surprise. Microsoft is promoting SQL Server 2005 really hard. Indeed, SQL Server 2005 Express edition seems a lot better than the old MSDE. It has no workload [...]
Happy TiddlyWiki user
August 12th, 2006Last week I checked out TiddlyWiki as it has been mentioned several times on JoS forums recently. I’m impressed. It so useful and easy to use that I’m using it as the main way to communicate my progress on a custom development project I’m working on. It’s basically a self-contained wiki. Just one html file. [...]
Great font for developers
May 24th, 2006I’ve downloaded Microsoft Consolas Font and it looks great! This font is optimized for ClearType. The installation package will install the font in the system and it will set the default font for Visual Studio 2005 to Consolas automatically. However, if you want to use it in VS 2003 you have to manually change the [...]
SQL Server Express has no workload governor
March 16th, 2006I’ve used MSDE as my database engine for most of my contract projects. I’ve never had any issue with MSDE (at least none that could be avoided if I had been using SQL Server). However, by using MSDE, sometimes I’ve had to deal with some customers’ objections regarding the ‘MSDE 5 concurrent users limit’. I [...]
New site design
February 22nd, 2006Not being completely satisfied with the look of my site I’ve finally managed to do something about it. Gavin Bowman posted a link in his blog about OSWD.com and it has been extremely useful. I selected a design by Andreas Viklund called ‘andreas08′ and after a few tweaks here and there I have a new [...]
Google Analytics: Site overlay
February 8th, 2006I don’t know if this option has been available since the launch of Google Analytics, but is the first time I’ve clicked on it. (I’m still hooked with StatCounter.com) This option shows your web pages with a small percentage bars located over every link. The blue bar represents the frequency each link has been clicked [...]
Getting exposure as soon as posible
February 1st, 2006I released the first version of dbdesc as soon as it was useful. It was only a command-line utility to document databases but, although it was still far from the product I would like to create, it had the core functionality ready. I followed the ‘release early, release often’ strategy and it was a good [...]
Magna CRM public beta
January 9th, 2006Magna CRM, a web based CRM software product from Rapid Signal has reached public beta stage. I’ll try to find time to check it out before January 23. Good luck!
New Google service: Google Analytics
November 14th, 2005I’ve been using a free account of StatCounter.com to track the visits to dbdesc since I’ve uploaded the website. I have to admit that at the beginning I couldn’t stop refreshing the statistics to see how many visits the site was having, studying the path of my visitors through the web, etc. Now I can [...]
