Jonathan Cogley's Blog

We are currently offering a programming internship on our developer team.  This is a great opportunity to improve your skills and see if you have what it takes to become a Thycotic developer.  We practice Test Driven Development, Pair Programming and Continuous Integration.  We are a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and are breaking new ground in the security space with products such as Secret Server and our Two Factor Authentication technologies.

This has been going around for a while and Andy finally got me.

This last Wednesday, myself and two other members of the Thycotic team presented at the WinProTeam Rockville meeting.

I am surprised at a new trend (ok, so only based on 2 experiences recently) but companies will make their product available for free (as in beer), get a lot of users and market share - then discontinue the free edition and start charging. 

Unfortunately my co-presenters were not able to make the WinProTeam presentation due to unforeseen circumstances so I went it alone.  This meant that the topics had to change a little but the audience seemed agreeable.  The schedule for the evening changed to:

Three sessions will be presented by Jonathan Cogley and John Morales of Thycotic Software at the WinProTeam User Group meeting in Vienna, Virginia tonight.

While at the Verify 2006 Conference, I got to catch up with Jeremy Kadlec (one of our local NOVASQL User Group leaders) and found out about some of the new things that Edgewood Solutions are doing.  The Edgewood team, who are experts in Microsoft SQL Server, are now publishing a daily Microsoft SQL Server tip on their website

My new laptop is a Toshiba M400 Tablet PC – it only came with 1GB RAM which I planned to upgrade.  I ordered two 1GB sticks of M400–compatible RAM from EZ-Computer (EDGE MEMORY - PERIPHERAL KTT667D2/1G-PE 1GB PC25300 NONECC UNBUFF 200PIN DDR2 SODIMM).  When the sticks arrived, I started poking around the back of the tablet only to discover that there was no memory compartment!?  After searching around the net, I came across this awesome detailed explanation of the procedure from Toshiba – it was a little more than I bargained for but only took about 10 minutes once I got started.  You basically have to remove the keyboard to get access to the memory compartment.  I had to do a similar thing a few years back to get access to the hard drive in a VPR Matrix laptop that Best Buy used to sell.