Officially live with GraffitiCMS and a new theme

June 23, 2008

A couple of months ago, I moved iTech Northwest’s site to GraffitiCMS and I really enjoyed how everything came together.  GraffitiCMS is a very solid application and I knew it would be a great fit for my personal site. I don’t think the move to the new server ever really worked with dasBlog and frankly, [...]

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Screencast How To: Dynamic Menu Button for OSI’s TCCUS / TCBS

May 7, 2008

In this screencast I walk through the steps of creating a dynamic menu button for OSI’s TCCUS and/or TCBS (I like to call it TC*).  If you’ve never used or created menu buttons, watch the screencast to see how they are used to enrich your core processing system. In this example, I’m creating a menu [...]

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Really, stop trying so hard

February 5, 2008

I’m working on a web site that is using SQL Express for the database and here is the error message I just got. When you click on the small paper icon in the lower left hand corner of the dialog box, it copies some information into your clip board. Wait for it… wait for it… [...]

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Lakai Fully Flared Intro

January 29, 2008

Here’s a very nice slow motion skate boarding video with fantastic music. [ Update - Seems like the video was pulled, here is an updated version ]

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Microsoft SQL 2005 – Moving the TEMPDB database

January 28, 2008

The data warehouse application I built is growing fast!  Some of my queries create temporary tables, which means my TEMPDB database grows with those queries.  So much that I needed to move my TEMPDB database from the primary partition to a much larger partition. Microsoft has a great knowledge base article, How to move SQL [...]

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The Difference between Banks and Credit Unions: Part 1

January 25, 2008

Brent Dixon posted "Larissa explains it all" on Open Source CU yesterday and I have to say that I’m extremely impressed!  The comments on Open Source CU have been extremely positive. Since I work at Northwest Community Credit Union, I grabbed the YouTube link and forwarded to our CEO and several other internal people.  Here [...]

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Social-Engineering Bank Robbery

January 16, 2008

Here is an interesting story from Bruce Schneier’s blog. On Wednesday, a man dressed as an armored truck employee with the company AT Systems walked into a BB&T bank in Wheaton about 11 a.m., was handed more than $500,000 in cash and walked out, a source familiar with the case said. It wasn’t until the [...]

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Start a Microsoft SQL Job via Stored Procedure

January 15, 2008

As part of the data warehouse application I built for Northwest Community Credit Union, which works against Open Solutions host system, I had a need to start a SQL job from a web page.  Since the OSI tables are live, our analysts wanted to be able to bring over a specific table whenever they felt [...]

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Amazon SimpleDB

December 14, 2007

Amazon is at it again, offering to put another service in the cloud, this time with Amazon SimpleDB.  This solution along with S3 and EC2 will enable just about any company to go completely virtual and buy data center services as if they were a utility (which is what they should be). I’ve been using [...]

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ASP.NET Press Enter to Submit Form via TextBox

November 20, 2007

I was working on an internal web site today and I needed to allow the user to enter some information into a asp:TextBox control and press enter to submit the form.  It looks something like this: I’ve done this in the past and decided to do a quick Google to find out how to do [...]

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