switched home pc from vista to ubuntu 1

i have a > 5-yr old thinkpad t400 with windows vista business and noticed that time was taking it’s toll on it so started rescue and recovery (thinkvantage blue button) rescue and recovery has started for a minute when I remember that it might be a good idea to disconnect some of my license keys ...

DMV behind-the-wheel driving test in Fremont, CA 19

Passed my behind-the-wheel driving test today in Fremont, CA DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) [4287 Central Avenue, Fremont, CA 94536] Sharing a thing or two about the experience and what could be useful to others. Written Test and Permit (pre-requisite to the actual driving test) Before you can take the behind-the-wheel driving test you have ...

sushi, software and success 1

Just finished watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi  - a film about Jiro Ono, a 85 year-old sushi master and owner of Michelin 3-Star restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro, on his continuing quest to perfect the art of sushi. “Once you decide on your occupation,” says Jiro, “you must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in ...

Happy New Year, New Blog for 2013 1

The past year (2012) has been a year full of new things for me. Now ready for new ones up ahead for 2013 and hopefully I would be able to share more about the small things and learning that comes my way. Happy New Year everyone and may your 2013 be full of great things! ...

Job Opportunity – UX Developer for Next Generation Marketing Analytics Cloud Application 4

We are looking for ambitious User Experience engineers that wants a new highly graphical, easy to use, multi-device cloud data management and processing for business intelligence and predictive analytics application. Role: To be key engineer implementing a new highly interactive, data intensive cloud service for or business intelligence and predictive analytics application. This service will ...

Job Opportunity – .Net UX Developer for Marketing Analytics Cloud Application 9

High impact project for ambitous .Net UI developer Profile : Self-motivated with a passion for Web development and UX implementation Role : Update the agilone user interface.The design has already been completed; Required skills: * Ability to interpret and fulfill the Designer’s vision for sophisticated UI and high performing applications. *  Creative individual with a ...

remove/delete svn folders

Since I’ve been using SVN and stumbled upon this technique I’ve also been using since then This is one of the many (but easiest way) to remove SVN folders (.svn) recursively from a given folder. Effectively “unbinding a folder from SVN“ Follow these easy steps: [more] 1) download this registry file : DeleteSVNFolders.reg (313.00 bytes) ...

more sql performance tips

As most of you know the general rule in performance tuning is ….. “measure, measure, measure” and “measure again” But it doesn’t hurt to give out some warning signs from time to time. And here goes two: [more] 1) be careful in doing anything fancy on JOIN predicates (that is the condition in the “ON” ...

adding custom SSIS transformation to visual studio toolbox fails

Just very recently I encountered an issue in deploying a custom SSIS component assembly where I cannot add a custom SSIS transformation to the Visual Studio toolbox. It turns out to be a relative “no-brainer” error if only the clues were more straightforward. Basically after deploying the assembly I could not find my component listed ...

blog site update

I have recently consolidated some of the sites I maintain into one of my hosting accounts. (will post about the provider soon – so far so good) And that includes this blog. Along with this move I have also updated to the latest version of BlogEngine.NET – guilty of not being up to date for ...