April 2006 Entries
I’m sorry to tell you folks that I will no longer be making any more posts to the Tech category on this blog. That’s right no more technical content. But I’m pleased to announce a sister blog Technical Thoughts of Jorriss at www.jorriss.com. I have already ported all of the Tech posts form jorriss.com to jorriss.net. So if you want to hear my thoughts and solutions on a variety of technology subjects head on over to jorriss.net or subscribe to the jorriss.net RSS feed. Enjoy.Now Playing: Leo Laporte and the TWiTs - TWiT 51: Digg This
Chris Sells, mensa member, Windows coding hero and all around guru has posted some great tips for project managers (program managers for those in Microsoft). I wish all project managers would follow his advice.
PM Skill #0: Know Your JobPM Skill #1: Communicate, Communicate, CommunicatePM Skill #2: Building ConsensusPM Skill #3: Getting Things DonePM Skill #4: Exhibiting the Behavior You WantPM Skill #5: Unblock Others FirstPM Skill #6: Be The Team MomPM Skill #7: Use That Meeting Time!PM Skill #8: Give Credit FreelyPM Skill #9: Learn From The Masters
Now Playing: MercyMe - Here Am I
One of my favorite channels on XM Radio is The Torch. The Torch played a nice mix of Christian rap and rock. Of course I still listen to plenty of The Call but sometimes I want to mix it up on the XM dial. Unfortunately, The Phantom Tollbooth is now reporting that XM Radio has pulled The Torch. That’s right you will no longer be able to hear alternative Christian rock/rap on your XM receiver. It will be only available via the crappy online feed. But there is something you can do about it. Sign the Save The Torch...
For almost four years I’ve been using Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA. CSLA or the Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture is a framework to build business objects. It’s a powerful architecture that provides many different features for middle-ware objects (automating validation logic, n-level undo, and databinding support just to name a few). Personally, I wouldn’t start an application without it. Rocky has updated the framework once again this time with version 2.0. It includes better validation (it also breaks some of my code, thanks Rocky), authorization support and updates to the data portal. As usual Rocky has updated his books Expert VB 2005 Business...