Keith Devens .com

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

1. Drunk Master Dev: How to move Business Contact Manager database to another instance of SQL Server 2005:

   If you're running the Business Contact Manager for Outlook, you've no doubt noticed that during the installation process, a named instance of SQL Server 2005 Express also gets installed. The instance is called MSSMLBIZ and is used to host the BCM database.

   So I have this extra instance of SQL Server on my computer... great. I want to uninstall everything and install the developer edition of SQL Server, but I have this thing in the way.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Microsoft]

Monday, July 21, 2008

1. RFC 5218 - What Makes For a Successful Protocol? (via). Seems like it might be an interesting read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Programming, To Read]

Saturday, July 19, 2008

1. Don't forget to watch Dr. Horrible.

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2. FirePHP - Firebug Extension for AJAX Development (via).

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Firefox, PHP]

Thursday, July 17, 2008

1. Globalization Step-by-Step: Currency Formatting. Now the question is how that's handled in a web environment.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [I18n, Windows]

2. Whedonesque : Brian Rubin of Whedonopolis interviews Felicia Day. To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Felicia Day]

3. Overview of C# 3.0

     ¶ (0) Tags: [C#]

4. Blue programming language

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Programming languages]

5. What is the Monkeysphere? | Cracked.com. To read.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Science, Sociology, To Read]

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

1. Git - SVN Crash Course

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Git, Subversion]

2. MHTML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via).

     ¶ (0) Tags: [HTML, MIME]

3. Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.. Seems like a neat service (via).

   Edit: Here's lifehacker's followup to their original post about sync tools.

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Backing up]

4. ankhsvn, open source Subversion integration for Visual Studio (via).

     ¶ (0) Tags: [Subversion, Visual Studio]