Did you know that Windows 7 has a GodMode? What GodMode does is enable you to have a place where you can get to all the settings without having to browse around and click through options and folders in control panel. Add a new folder to your desktop and name it GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} After that is done you will see the following icon on your desktop Now when you click on that icon you it will open up the following folder…isn’t that cool?
This is an archive of the posts published to LessThanDot from 2008 to 2018, over a decade of useful content. While we're no longer adding new content, we still receive a lot of visitors and wanted to make sure the content didn't disappear forever.
So finally it is a new year and a new decade (this of course all depends if there is a year zero or not). The Dow Jones Industrial Average (yes the DJI is an average and not an index) closed lower than it was a decade ago, as a matter of fact it is a 1000 points lower now. Just keep in mind that the stock market still hasn’t recovered in Japan and that has been going on for 20 years now.
Today I was having a bit of fun. And I wanted to add the number of followers we have for our LessThanDot Twitter account. I could have used the numerous services that give this feature already like twittercounter. Which I did on the statistics page. But those things are just copy paste and I wanted to show the number of followers in the title/tooltip for the twitter button in the social sitings sidebar section (Yes, Eli it now has a name).
The ability to be dynamic in your work with SSIS promotes the ability to develop much more scalable packages which are easier to maintain and transport from development to user acceptance testing to production. As an ETL developer or administrator, you will also have the ability to easily maintain upgrades, migrations and new implementations into the landscape by making packages as dynamic in nature as possible. Variables are a key piece in this concept and have been since the advent of any development platform.
On this site we have a suggestions forum and David suggested that the authors list on this forum could do with a summary. In an Author’s list of blogs, have a mouse-over effect that pops up the first 1-2 paragraphs of the blog. First, I thought that Ajax and jquery is nothing for me. Web development is not something I like doing and I did plenty of it for the site during my 5 week vacation this year.
This is a post for beginners because that is what I am. Today I was adding some Ajax to our site. Seeing that this is my first day of Ajax and that I only have very little experience with jquery, I thought it would be hard. So I started off with little things. First, I wanted to add a summary to our authorlist page. But I’ll talk about that in another article.
This is the fifth and final article in a multi-article set that describes the basics of Kanban and explores applying Kanban to IT Processes. Part one provides a basic overview of Kanban and how it is used in manufacturing. The remaining parts explore sample scenarios to help generate ideas for your own environment. The first four articles discuss the basics of Kanban and follow it’s application in three fictional environments.
One way I stay protected from bad sites is that I use a modified host file. In Vista and Windows 7 you cannot just open the file in notepad and save it anymore, you will get an error. Someone had this happen at work on Windows Server 2008 last week and just today someone asked about it in our forums here: Can’t modify the host file on Windows 7 I decided to create a short little blog post explaining how you can modify this file.
Since we are wrapping up this decade I decided to look back and mention the things that happened in technology that I found interesting. Below is my list of ten technologies. Wireless/Broadband Most of us were probably on dial up at the start of this decade (I was) but these days it is hard to find a person that still uses dial up; I only know one person that still uses dial up.
Here is your gift from Microsoft for the holidays: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines with Sample Data. Brian Keller writes Just in time for the holidays, we have posted a brand new virtual machine (VM) which is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and sample data that you can use to help learn the product, perform demonstrations, etc.