Steve Rachui has a great post on an issue he ran into using a couple deployment packs from IBM and Dell.  He includes his resolution as well so if you’re using any of these you might want to check this out: OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment packs that plug into the OSD feature ...

  A colleague had a problem concerning a query using the (NOT) IN predicate, use the following table creation script (attached to the blog entry) to see the effects of the problem and to repro it on your machine. Imagine you have two tables (not that hard till here) and you want to get the info...

While I do think that the current incarnation of OLPCoprs Africa is a good idea gone bad, do note that I mention its a good idea to begin with. Just not the right way to spend $3.5 million of student donations. If One Laptop Per Child and One Here, One There want to leverage college student enthusia...

Dear Deployment, Although I understand that we are not strangers, I did want to set forth a few ground rules and observations before you officially begin your timeline.  First and foremost, please remember that I despise surprises so should you feel the need to visit again before my husband re...

OK, so some of this stuff would have been (and still would be) very helpful during my recent updates to Community Megaphone. I finally got around to setting up a separate dev database, plus a staging server for testing new bits in a non-local setting before pushing them out to the main site. Managin...

Did you know we had a big release of SocialSpark yesterday? Maybe you saw some chatter on Twitter about it; maybe you saw a new type of Opp in the Marketplace; maybe you had no idea anything changed at all! Either way, here are the updates that are most likely to affect you: Bug Fixes: Advertisers ...

I am a novice mac lab manager. I was using the popular Netrestore to roll out images to our mac lab. I discovered that the software has been discontinued, and furthermore it now breaks when I try to use it. So I guess I need to know what the easiest alternative to Netrestore/firewire drives is for i...

This is awesome, if a little insane. Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day: Continuous Deployment means running all your tests, all the time. That means tests must be reliable. We’ve made a science out of debugging and fixing intermittently failing tests. When I say...

Ð’Ñ�Ñ‘ тайное рано или поздно Ñ�тановитÑ�Ñ� Ñ�вным, а вÑ�е доÑ�тойные идеи рано или поздно получают воплощение. По крайней мере, в Ñ�том убеждает менÑ� недавнÑ�Ñ� новоÑ�Ñ‚ÑŒ. УтилиÑ...

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1.  Since then, the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1).  Here are some updated steps that c...