Work
Competitor files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
Bloomberg posted an article on my birthday annoucing that NetVersant (one of the competitors in my employers space) filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.
Obviously they’re not out for the count, but in this tightening market and continuing recession, this is an opportunity for all of NetVersant’s competitors. To the best of my knowledge, this is the [...]
Where I’ve been
Well, I went to Mexico (a cruise) for a week, and then I was sequester for a week of training and then I spent a week out of town on an install. Next week, I’m doing another install so I’ve not really had a lot of energy at end-of-day to make a blog post.
Hopefully I’ll get [...]
Microsoft Archive: Event Viewer
Event Viewer can be easily accessed using Start > Run > eventvwr.msc
Project Diary: Xtools (8)
Brought the 0.10.2 revision over to the production site as it fixes a number of critical bugs. I’m still working on 0.11.0, which begins the implementation of the ESN parser. All database tables have been generated and the upgrade code has been written in to the core plugin code so that when it’s moved over [...]
Project Diary: Xtools (7)
Revised all Xtools templates to continue to output the content of the page from WordPress (for notes/comments/documentation links/etc).
Documented known bugs in a publically accessible format (in preparation for adding more beta testers)
DNB Parsing, Best Practices
DNB Types [static list]
Documented best practices in a publically accessible format (same as above)
Continued work on ESN parser & templates
Project Diary: Xtools (6)
Resolved all outstanding bugs from v0.10.0 (frankly, I’m embarressed to discover how many critical bugs there were in this release… but they’re all fixed now.) and began working on implementing the new parser. The next one will be a alternate route selection parser. NARS/BARS/CDP etc.
All my programming time has diminished my attentiveness to building the [...]
The soon to be ex-Heller Ehrman
Heller Ehrman has announced bankruptcy and a soon-to-be former Heller employer has started a blog to keep the exiting employees as they “abandon ship.”
It’s a sad state. Heller Ehrman was a good place to work while I was there (sans the manager from hell who managed me and the telecom group for 2.5 years…) The [...]
Project Diary: Xtools (5)
Tasks completed:
Normal users will only have access to their own customer
Ability to add users to a customer record who can also access that information will be added in a subsequent revision
Normal users can now add a new customer, associated with their user record
Normal users can now add an unlimited number of sites associated only with [...]
Project Diary: Xtools (4)
Put up a BugTracker. I’ll be importing the ASPECT projects that I’ve been working on over the years soon, so that if any users want to report bugs for those projects, they can.
Primarily though, this BugTracker is used to track the features/projects/ideas for my Xtools project. I figured that while a diary is great, tracking [...]
Microsoft Archive: Services
Opening the Services Microsoft Console (MMC)
SERVICES.MSC
From a CMD batch file:
mmc %systemroot%\system32\services.msc
