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Thoughts on autonomy, self direction, digital business and life.

• DB2 / SQL SERVER 2005 / .NET

  Notes from moving DB2 data into SQL Server 2005 via SSIS: the Microsoft OLE DB2 driver chokes on BLOBs, the IBM ODBC driver on DateTime precision.

  Donn Felker – August 22, 2007

• SQLyog MySQL GUI Tool

  SQLyog is the MySQL GUI client I switched to after years on the command line and phpMyAdmin - faster for everyday tabular data work.

  Donn Felker – August 21, 2007

• Outlook Live Mail Connector

  Microsoft's Outlook connector for Windows Live Mail syncs email and contacts, but locks calendar sync behind a paid account. Still team Gmail.

  Donn Felker – August 18, 2007

• Installing BlogEngine.NET on GoDaddy Shared Hosting

  Step-by-step fix for installing BlogEngine.NET on GoDaddy shared hosting, working around trust-level restrictions and App_Data permission issues.

  Donn Felker – August 17, 2007

• Postponing .NET User Group Presentation

  Had to postpone tomorrow night's .NET User Group talk due to unforeseen circumstances. A new date is coming in the next couple months.

  Donn Felker – August 14, 2007

• SubVersion / TortoiseSVN Global Ignore Pattern

  TortoiseSVN's Global Ignore Pattern setting keeps bin, obj, dll, pdb, and other build junk out of source control - here's the exact pattern I use and why.

  Donn Felker – August 10, 2007

• Windsor Links

  Bookmarking Ayende's collection of Castle Windsor IoC container tutorials and patterns, saved here mostly so I can find them again myself.

  Donn Felker – August 10, 2007

• DbDataReader Mishap

  A debugging gotcha: leaving a DbDataReader sitting in an unpinned Watch window during a test run triggered it early and broke a unit test.

  Donn Felker – August 9, 2007

• Portable Applications – A Life Saver on a USB Stick

  PortableApps lets you carry Notepad++, FileZilla, Firefox, and more on a USB stick, a lifesaver when you're working on a client's machine.

  Donn Felker – August 6, 2007

• IIS 6 & PHP – Mimicking .htaccess User/Pass Functionality

  How to password-protect a directory on a PHP site running on IIS 6 using ASP.NET forms authentication, since .htaccess doesn't work on Windows.

  Donn Felker – August 3, 2007

• Presenting at Arizona .NET User Group – Dependency Injection & Inversion of Control

  I'm presenting Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control at the Arizona .NET User Group on August 14th at 6pm at the Microsoft office.

  Donn Felker – August 3, 2007

• Tip: DirectorySeparatorChar

  Stop hardcoding backslashes in file paths. Use .NET's Path.DirectorySeparatorChar so your code works on Windows, Mac, and *NIX alike.

  Donn Felker – July 29, 2007