FrazzledDad

Bleary-eyed ruminations of a work at home Father.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Lousy Performance, High Hardware Interrupt Usage

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My system has been dog doo slow since I did a reinstall a couple weeks back.  Process Explorer was showing some outrageous hardware interru...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I Have Great Cans

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I mean a new set of headphones, you filthy-minded philistine.  These terrific Sennheisers , to be precise.  They’re just amazing plugged int...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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Holy smokes, I’m actually going to be doing a few talks at places other than our DevGroup !  I’ll be giving my Intro to Security talk twice ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Neat Word Trick for Finding Bogus Styles

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I didn’t know you could do this in Word… O’Reilly provides authors a Word template with specific styles in it.  Pasting in formatted text fr...
Monday, March 27, 2006

Dear Friends, Please Stop Those E-Mails

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Amanda, Barbara, and [%from_name%] [[%from_email%]]: I’ve got all the OEM software I can use.  Please save yourselves the obvious effort you...
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Great Zoom Tool

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Mark Russinovich at Sysinternals has done it again, this time with a killer Zoom application .  It freezes your display while zooming, but ...

Reflections on the Last Year

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I just realized it’s been a year since I got my last paycheck from the company I had to leave due to their inflexible telecommuting policies...
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More Great Openeness at Microsoft

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Josh Ledgard  writes about another major move to transparency at Microsoft: the Internet Explorer team is opening up their database to publi...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

Bad Speakers? Stone Them!

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Presentation Zen (which I had somehow dropped from my blog list.  Ick!) has yet another great post , this one on avoiding tedious technical ...
Friday, March 24, 2006

Open Source Test Tools Materials

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I’ve gotten my materials (slides and code) from my Open Source Test Tools together and posted up on my biz’s website .  There are two differ...

Good VB.NET / VB 2005 Books?

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Anyone out there know of good material on VB.NET or VB 2005?  I’m looking for something much more than just a this-is-how-you-write-VB-code ...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

More on MBUnit

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Phil Haack, one smart guy and the “Benevolent Dictator” behind SubText , posted a comment on my “Exploring MBUnit” note from last week.  He...
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Open Source Test Tools Presentation

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I gave another talk at last night’s meeting of the Dayton .NET Developers Group : Open Source Test Tools.  I spoke about all the goodness av...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

A Simple, Glorious Lunch

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Take one slice of good bread such as a Ciabatta or Pugliese and nicely toast it.  Grab it immediately when the toaster pops it up and rub a ...
Monday, March 20, 2006

Charity Effort Shout Out

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Scott Hanselman’s participating in a walk for the American Diabetes Association to try and earn $10,000.  Think about spending some of your...
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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Big News: I'm Writing A Book!

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I’ve vaguely mentioned a big project in other blog posts, but here it is in cleartext: I’m on contract to write a book for O’Reilly !  This ...
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Learning Fitnesse Today

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What a great-looking tool Fitnesse is for wrapping your customers into the entire development process! I think it’s also got some interesti...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Smokin' DSL!

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My ISP is in the middle of various upgrades and I’m already seeing some improvements.  Current stats from my ISP’s bandwidth test page: Admi...

Exploring MBUnit

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I’ve been playing around with MBUnit for only a few hours, but I’m way impressed with it so far.  Its table-based testing via the [RowTest()...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Installing Watir

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I’m exploring Watir as part of my presentation I’m developing for next week’s DevGroup meeting .  I ran into one hitch when trying to instal...
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I'm the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems. I help lots of great folks figure out what works and what doesn't in the world of delivering quality software -- something I'm very passionate about. I'm also a Father trying to remain sane while trying to build great software, herd my kids around, fix school lunches and handle the yardwork. (And roast great coffee!)
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