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When you are working in XP, and you need to view a calendar to see what day of the week a particular date falls on, how do you do it? Well, if you are like 95% of non-corporate windows users (not getting your time from a domain controller or time server), you probably double click [...]

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It’s pretty funny that we actually have Microsoft to thank for the original XHR. Makes you wonder what else is hiding in their R&D labs.

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My first programming internship used VB6 (1998), and it was great at the time. My first real job was mainly Classic ASP (2001), and I didn’t have a problem with that either. We just got back a proposal from a consulting company to revamp one of our aging CD-ROM based products and my jaw hit [...]

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Alt+Enter brings up the properties panel for items in Windows. I did not know this. Equivalent in most cases to right clicking, properties but much much faster.

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This seems to be a fairly undocumented hot topic that I’ve been trying to find an answer to for the last couple of days. Let me preface this by saying I am not an expert in SugarCRM or LDAP, but I finally got it up and running. Here’s my settings for getting SugarCRM Version [...]

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Microsoft gives the big up yours to people trying to use Visual Studio 2008 for creating Reporting Server projects on SQL Server/Reporting Service 2005. This bit one of my developers in the ass today. I firmly believe that Microsoft’s heyday will be remembered from a end user perspective as Windows XP SP2, and from the [...]

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