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In the words of the great peons of Warcraft; “More work?!”

Maker — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:11:03 +0000

I’ve recently been engaged in trying to make an idea profitable. In addition to my heavy workload at my office, and my regular daily activity this is going to prove more than a little tricky to manage, but I’m pretty confident that I can devote the amount of time and CPU cycles to it. I’m intensely busy with this project at the moment, but hopefully something easy and lazy will manifest from it to generate revenue.

Disruption

Maker — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:10:00 +0000

I will be moving tomorrow to somewhere in central Orange County. I can’t say where, because its Tustin Ranch. I’m not sure yet if it’s a real city. Anyway, my point is that some services will be disrupted while enterprise is being moved. DNS should be fine, but obviously anything thats hosted or running on enterprise will be unreachable. I should be setting up enterprise’s replacement in the next couple of weeks, with an actual data center for it to live at.

Infrastructure

Maker — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:23:56 +0000

So in this new place the network is as follows: a cable modem -> wifi router. Presently I’m the only one hard wired in.

What I’d really like to do is increase the upload speed, and obviously the download speed, add a relay or use the same type of router already in use here to repeat the wireless signal. I dont have the foggiest idea of how to go about setting up one to be an AP, but I imagine a few minutes of trial and error should do the trick. My alternative to this is microwave dishes to broadcast the signal for a few miles more than I want.

If any of you have experience in hooking up two wifi routers/APs to spread the wealth, please send a few pointers my way.

Once I have the wireless signal closer to what I’d like to experience, I’m going to push for a faster up/down connection (though this likely means DSL via AT&T). Any objections, pointers, complaints, or orders are welcome, just comment below and I may do a full post to respond to it.

Questions to ask a SQL Server database developer applicant

Maker — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:38:51 +0000

Standard set of baseline technical questions he asks SQL Server database developers during an interview. These questions will help you weed out less-qualified candidates.

It is very difficult in today’s job market to find well-qualified database developers. It’s very easy to attain a basic understanding of SQL, yet another to master SQL.

When I interviewing SQL Server database developer candidates, a standard set of baseline technical questions works well. The following questions are ones that can really help weed out less-qualified candidates. They are listed in order from easiest to more difficult. When you get to the question about primary and foreign keys, it starts to get challenging because the answers can be more difficult to explain and articulate, especially in an interview setting.