Feature Article #1

How to change the port in sql server management express (ssms)

I chased my tail around for awhile on this before finally coming across a post on google… those crazy folks at Microsoft decided that rather than using the standard IPAddress:port with a colon, they would use a comma instead! So… when you’re using SSMS to connect to a Sql Server on a non-standard port… this [...]

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Jim | October 15th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Techno Apathy

For the most part, new technology fails to excite or impress me. Don’t get me wrong… I’m always interested in technology that genuinely makes a difference in our lives… but I haven’t come across much of that lately. I’m frequently asked by my friends, and sometimes my family members to give recomendations on various toys [...]

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Jim | September 5th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Decision making within the life cycle of complex systems

Matt and I were talking today about the role that decision making plays in our lives… and I mentioned how when you’re younger, you have fewer decisions to make… but they are more critical, while as you age, you have a greater number of decisions to make the older you get (until it plateaus at [...]

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Jim | August 19th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Momentum as one of your greatest assets

A few months ago, I had a friend who’s car would not start while he was visiting me at my house. Fortunately it was a stick shift… and anyone who has driven one of these knows what it means to ‘pop’ start it when the battery is dead. For those who have not had the [...]

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Jim | August 14th, 2008 | Continued

Feature Article #5

Hosting Provider Challenges

1 year.
That’s about my average stay at any given hosting provider. I think it must be timed with hosting software product releases or something, because it’s actually pretty spooky… but it always seems like right around 1 year renewal is when I inevitably start looking for a new relationship. Like that car that ran great [...]

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Jim | August 3rd, 2008 | Continued

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About this Site

This site has started basically just as a stomping grounds for my thoughts, a journal of sorts used to get things out of my head and into a format where if anyone was interested, including me, they would be able to read it. Some of the things here are about my job, but most of [...]

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Amazon EC2 ‘WARNING UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE’

playing around today with Amazon’s EC2 web service… and got this error ‘WARNING UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE’ while trying to connect via ssh using the ‘ElasticFox’ firefox addon. Apparently ElasticFox assumes that you have your file located in /Users/youruser/ec2-keys/ … (i’m on OSX), and EC2 requires that directory to be CHMOD 700, and the .pem [...]

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2Nov2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Parker Dam, Quehanna Natural Area

One of the most beautiful places we’ve been to take pictures… this one is in the middle of no-where near State College, PA …the trees were amazing. I think we got them just about at their peak. Güenther was in heaven, with so much to smell! I can’t blame him… the cool air smelled [...]

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15Oct2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire

We headed out to Pennsylvania last Saturday morning… arriving in Mannheim, PA late Saturday night… stayed in one of the crappiest hotels i think we’ve ever stayed in. That night, my sister, brother-in-law and I went to a small pub called ‘Farmer’s Hope’, where i had 5 shots of Patron Silver (mmmm… nectar) and sat [...]

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15Oct2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Cade’s Cove, Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Melissa and I went to Gatlinburg the weekend before last, and had a really good time. Some friends of ours have a cabin out there and they let us stay there for ‘free’ … i say ‘free’ in quotes because Steve has got his money’s worth out of me in ‘free’ computer support since he [...]

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15Oct2008 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Creating CRUD Stored Procedures in SSMS

ok… now this is awesome:
http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/

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