http://www.notsonerdy.com A not so nerdy developers look at programming and life. Mon, 18 May 2009 03:50:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I read through my mass of email from this morning, I happened upon one of my daily news bites that had the title "Office Depot gives away copies". Being the deal hunter that I am, I figured I would check this out and see what the fuss was ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2009/05/13/companies-doing-the-right-thing/ So this week I have been working with my team to do some interviews with contractors. It hasn't been all that fun and this is because like wild dogs, the market is bad so they all come running when there is food to offer. We have actually had ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2009/04/07/resume-clarity-interview-techniques-and-dogs/ So I deployed a killer internal application today that well over 400 employees will be using on a daily basis. I decided to use the AJAX control toolkit to give the application better error checking and more of a windows application feel without having to deal with the deployment and ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/12/13/ajaxcontroltoolkit-is-undefined-iislog-sc-win32-status-64-and-sc-status-200/ So I was able to get TFS 2008 Build to install finally today, but not until I got passed a nasty error. This was a pain for me, but the fix is simple. Set your Team Foundation Server Service Account (used for TFS Web Services) to a non system account. ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/12/06/visual-studio-2008-team-foundation-server-build-install-error/ So I have been working on a project where we want to store more information in the cookie. I was trying to figure out the best way to store an object to the cookie and get it back out so it was easy to use. I personally hate the ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/09/28/advanced-cookie-compression-with-net-ajaxnet/ So as I get on my computer tonight I see that Google has now released Google Paper. You can print out your email through Google and have them sent via regular mail to your house. The first thoughts running through my mind is why would they do this ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/04/01/gmail-paper-how-cool-nerdy-is-that/ Recently on one of my sites, my customers have been getting this when using Internet Explorer 7 with or without Vista. "There is a problem with this website's security certificate. This organization's certificate has been revoked. Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/02/27/this-organizations-certificate-has-been-revoked-ie-7-vista/ So I know that with the wardrobe malfunction we will never see another Super Bowl halftime that is worth anything. I was impressed that Prince wasn't lip synch'ing, but the part where they had the silhouette of Prince playing his special guitar was one of the best laughs I ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/02/05/superbowl-and-princes-penis-guitar-silhouette/ So I made a nice little post a while back about my Zune and how much I loved it. My relationship has quickly become a love hate type of thing now. I really do like all of the features of my Zune. The screen is amazing... the ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/02/02/microsoft-zune-mp3-player-is-locking-up-guess-i-have-to-eat-crow/ I have never in my life been hit with so much spam as I have in the past few months. The spam blockers are doing a great job of catching a majority of the email, but here at work they are having some major issues. The latest emails ... http://www.notsonerdy.com/2007/01/17/stupid-spam-messages/