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| The Latest from Derek Hatchard blogs on | MORE | | Find the Right Wireless Networking Channel web-based tool for group / membership management. The hard core geeks know that to optimize your wireless networking experience you want to select a channel that is unused by other nearby wireless devices. If you run Windows 7 (or Vista), use the following command at the Command Prompt to see the channels and signal strength of nearby networks: netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid. The channel numbers will be in the range of 1 to 11. Find a hole, ideally at least five channels away from your neighbours, and change your wireless router configuration to use that channel. Your 2.4 Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, January 22, 2010 The Chip in Your Customer’s Pocket web-based tool for group / membership management. Chances are good that you already have a credit card with a microchip in it. Transactions using the chip require you to enter a PIN rather than signing a receipt. It steals from you the tactile pleasure of scrawling your chicken scratch on a scrap of paper, but otherwise the new system is intended to be less susceptible to fraud. Credit card fraud in Canada is over half a billion dollars per year. My personal and business credit and debit cards all have chips in them. Canadian business owners, take heed. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Saturday, January 9, 2010 Satisfied with 2009 Holiday Spending? web-based tool for group / membership management. I am still waiting for your Christmas gift. While I wait, I’ll share a few numbers I dug up on Christmas spending from Consumerism-mas 2009. Retail in Canada. Despite the media’s incessant wailing about the economy all year long, Canadians spent more during the 2009 holiday season than the 2008 holiday season according to data from the largest debit and credit card processor in Canada. December 22 was the busiest day (up 4.5% over last year). December 24-29 saw a 7.9% increase in debit and credit card purchases. " [link]. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, January 8, 2010 | | The Best from Derek Hatchard blogs on | MORE | | Manage Your Christmas Card List was thinking today it would be handy to use an online tool to replace that little tattered address book when it struck me: CROWD SPACE WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THAT! web-based tool for group / membership management. In my household, my wife manages the Christmas card mailing list. take the annual Christmas photo and sometimes write a Christmas letter, but it is my better half who handles the important task of deciding who gets a Christmas card / letter and keeping the mailing addresses up to date. Crowd Space ( [link] ) is the flagship product of my little web company. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Thursday, December 17, 2009 Run Multiple Desktop Shortcuts At Once Several times a day I find myself launching a set of desktop shortcuts at the same time: I had keyboard shortcuts set up but it was still a multi-step process for opening up my main communication tools (HootSuite, my webradius.com email account, and my hatchard.net email account). web-based tool for group / membership management. Here’s a simple way to create a master shortcut to launch everything: 1. Find the.lnk files. Right-click on each shortcut and go to the General tab of the Properties window: The shortcut is actually a.lnk file. Create a New Text File. Next start Notepad. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Find the Right Wireless Networking Channel web-based tool for group / membership management. The hard core geeks know that to optimize your wireless networking experience you want to select a channel that is unused by other nearby wireless devices. If you run Windows 7 (or Vista), use the following command at the Command Prompt to see the channels and signal strength of nearby networks: netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid. The channel numbers will be in the range of 1 to 11. Find a hole, ideally at least five channels away from your neighbours, and change your wireless router configuration to use that channel. Your 2.4 Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, January 22, 2010 | - The Chip in Your Customer’s Pocket
web-based tool for group / membership management. Chances are good that you already have a credit card with a microchip in it. Transactions using the chip require you to enter a PIN rather than signing a receipt. It steals from you the tactile pleasure of scrawling your chicken scratch on a scrap of paper, but otherwise the new system is intended to be less susceptible to fraud. Credit card fraud in Canada is over half a billion dollars per year. My personal and business credit and debit cards all have chips in them. Canadian business owners, take heed. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Saturday, January 9, 2010 - Satisfied with 2009 Holiday Spending?
web-based tool for group / membership management. I am still waiting for your Christmas gift. While I wait, I’ll share a few numbers I dug up on Christmas spending from Consumerism-mas 2009. Retail in Canada. Despite the media’s incessant wailing about the economy all year long, Canadians spent more during the 2009 holiday season than the 2008 holiday season according to data from the largest debit and credit card processor in Canada. December 22 was the busiest day (up 4.5% over last year). December 24-29 saw a 7.9% increase in debit and credit card purchases. " [link]. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, January 8, 2010 - If You’re Going to Do Online Video…
web-based tool for group / membership management. …please do not start your video with “I haven’t made a video in a while… I just figured I’d get on camera and talk to you a little bit… Not much been goin’ on here lately…”. You should produce online video that informs, entertains, or baffles the mind. Please. Viewers will move on quickly if a video does not respect their time. In the world of online video, attention is a form of currency. Video needs to be a good value. -- Derek Hatchard's Information Flume Ride is affectionately sponsored by Crowd Space ( [link] ), the. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Thursday, November 5, 2009 - Online Photo Sharing Primer
web-based tool for group / membership management. Over on the Crowd Space blog I posted an introduction to online photo sharing. If you aren’t already familiar with Flickr or SmugMug, check it out: [link]. Never in the history of humankind has it been so easy to take photos and share them. Digital cameras are everywhere. Your cell phone probably even has a half-decent digital camera built into it. So the question is: when you run events for your community group, team, or church, do you take pictures? Do you share them afterward? The Joy of Sharing. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Final Friday Event for Moncton
web-based tool for group / membership management. If you don’t live near southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, ignore this announcement. Final Friday is a monthly meetup for folks in the region around Moncton, NB (southeast New Brunswick, Canada). Final Friday is about the Internet and business. It’s for folks who wear various hats. Take one part social lunch. Add one part networking. Add one part technology. Add a dash of geek and three parts awesomeness. That’s the basic recipe for Final Friday. Register: [link]. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, October 23, 2009 - 6 Ways to be Kinder When Writing for Humans
web-based tool for group / membership management. “We live in an age of unprecedented writing… Unfortunately a lot of those people are writing some pretty bad stuff.”. link]. -- Derek Hatchard's Information Flume Ride is affectionately sponsored by Crowd Space ( [link] ), the. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - Solution to Dell Freezing After Resume from Sleep
web-based tool for group / membership management. I have been thoroughly satisfied with my Dell Latitude E6400 except for one large annoyance: it regularly hangs when resuming from sleep mode. It isn’t completely frozen when this happens – some applications will respond to mouse clicks but my web browser , IM , and Skype windows become unresponsive. Eventually things come back to normal but the wait is embarrassing if you’re sitting beside a Mac user. Fortunately I think I have found a solution. This week I was finally fed up with the long hangs and did some troubleshooting. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Thursday, August 6, 2009 %>
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | Agile Clinic: Dear Allan, we have a little problem with Agile. m no fan of Jira, or any other electronic tool but most team use one so nothing odd so far. 'Consider this blog an Agile Clinic. On Friday an e-mail dropped into my mailbox asking if I could help. The sender has graciously agreed to let me share the mail and my advice with you, all anonymously of course… The sender is new to the team, new to the company, they are developing a custom web app for a client, i.e. they are an ESP or consultancy. the Developers work in sprints, estimating tasks in JIRA as they go. Sprints last three weeks, including planning, development and testing. Yikes! Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, April 28, 2013 A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. My take : Robomongo is definitely my current favorite management tool for MongoDB. or.PHP file on your server and you get a well rounded management tool. The lack of management tools was hurting MongoDB’s adoption in the early days. The news is good. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Monday, April 22, 2013 Requirements and Specifications Having worked through this I conclude that BDD is an excellent specification tool. Now, while BDD and SbE may well give Developers first class specification tools these tools should not be mistaken for requirements tools and shouldn’t be used as such. 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” which I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. So I turned to my bookshelves…. nothing. Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 | -
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All information, source code, and especially tools are provided as is and on a "use at your own risk" basis. Tags: Articles Tools In this article I'm going to give you a simple, step-by-step overview of how to create a Windows 2008 server image in Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure. Now I must admit I'd rather have found a good tutorial on The Internets or even in a book. Feel free to send me any I missed. My experience is they are either dated or about Linux and so on. First, briefly why does one care about EC2? Here we go. Create an Account. Enable EC2 Features. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Saturday, January 30, 2010 - The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!
The NoSQL movement asks the question: “Is the relational database (RDBMS) always the right tool for data storage and data access?”. You may have to run a transformation tool if you’re making radical data changes, but that’s true in SQL systems as well. To get started, download MongoDB the tools and server here: [link]. Generally I look down upon that sort of development, but for an admin tool it’s just fine. All information, source code, and especially tools are provided as is and on a "use at your own risk" basis. Insanity!” Flat files? Related classes? Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 11 Killer Open Source Projects I Found with NuGet
All information, source code, and especially tools are provided as is and on a "use at your own risk" basis. Articles ASP.NET NoSQL Open Source Tools Visual StudioSo maybe I'm late to the party, but I recently started playing with NuGet. It's a killer new way to find, install, maintain, and manage references to open source libraries in Visual Studio 2010. Plenty of people have written about it ( Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman for example). Let's just say you should learn about NuGet if you don't know it already. RazorEngine at [link]. YUI Compressor for.Net at [link]. Here you go. Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - A Roundup of MongoDB Management Tools
Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. Robomongo — is a shell-centric cross-platform open source MongoDB management tool (i.e. My take : Robomongo is definitely my current favorite management tool for MongoDB. or.PHP file on your server and you get a well rounded management tool. The lack of management tools was hurting MongoDB’s adoption in the early days. The news is good. - Entity Framework 4.1 power tools
Power Tools making it even easier to do Code First development with an existing database. The EF team at Microsoft just release a first CTP of the EF 4.1 Guess it isn’t really code first in that case but database first I did a quick test with an existing database, Northwind to be exact, and it worked pretty well. The only gotcha is you have to make sure the EF4.1 assemblies are available in your project otherwise you will receive the exception below. Adding Ef4.1 is easy though, just download the installer and install them or even better, just add a package reference using NuGet. Enjoy! The Problem Solver - Thursday, May 19, 2011 %>
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