Jason Nadal

Restless C#ding

  • WSE anachronistic?

    I'm getting into WSE a bit finally, but after seeing Indigo and the ease with which some of the same things can be accomplished, along with the fact that there's no current driving need for me to learn it makes me wonder if it's a waste of time. Have others decided not to take on WSE in the hopes that Whidbey/Indigo would be released soon?

  • WinFS on WinXP

    Just caught this over at Channel9 -- a link to an article by Mary Jo Foley at microsoft-watch.com, quoting "Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of product management for SQL Server" saying "Microsoft is busily back-porting the WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP."

  • It's been awhile

    I've been in a writing funk for quite a while now, and it's time to get back.

  • Virtual Server 2005 Performance

    For those people trying out Virtual Server, like me, you can get a significant performance gain by using Remote Desktop Connection to get to your guest operating systems, rather than the web client, which for me at least (3.2ghz, 1.5gbram, 7200rpm hd) performs like a dog.

  • MS Sql Server 2005 Express

    Microsoft announces SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. It'll be great to have a low-cost lightweight SQL server, WITH it's own (slated for 8/04) "database manager and query analysis tool." I wonder just how the "click-once" technology in visual studio will be connected with this product (that feature's scheduled for Beta 3. It's great to see the next evolution of MSDE.

  • RE: Remembering passwords...

    It looks like the number of passwords that I have to remember grows linearly over time. Since I don't have the best mnemotechnic abilities I decided today that it is OK to just forget them. Then, I just tell the whatever-site-I-must-log-on that I've forgot my password and ask it to send it by email (or reset it) each time my cookie expires. Then I simply cut & paste the password from the received email and voila, everything seems to work fine. This also allows me to implement real cryptic passwords without any fear that I might forget them later.