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DSXP OPC DA 2.0

Man I hate OPC. It just feels like software plumbing gone overboard in the COM based architecture it uses. The term “software plumbing” is used to describe software thats forms the basis of software...

opc cpp industrial-automation testing
March 12, 2008
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Fedora Core 7 and VMWare

Here’s a quick tip that I kicked myself when I eventually figured out – and then felt subsequently quite thick. After installing Fedora Core 7 within a VMWare host on Windows, the screen resolution...

linux virtualization productivity-tools
January 9, 2008
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Real Men Don't Sleep

There’s a new MSDN show called Striking Pixels that is a “goofy” look at Microsoft’s designer offerings such as Silverlight. There was one excerpt that just cracked me up. Its shown below.

project-management client-relations estimation video
September 21, 2007
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Inside the Agility Cube Excerpt

I was listening to the Javapolis Inside the Agility Cube session and snorted at the following excerpt: I know of a project that went into a kind of death march chaos and all kinds of other things.

agile project-management software-engineering podcasts
September 12, 2007
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MacroView Excel Addin V1.3.0

We’ve released V1.3.0 of the MacroView Excel Add-in software product just this week. Its a package that we’ve developed for Sentient Computing who are one of our business partners.

macroview scada office excel industrial-automation data-acquisition
September 1, 2007
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TorqObject Database Decoupling

We use an in-house framework for building applications and the subject of how we decouple business domain classes from a particular data source recently came up.

software-architecture database object-oriented csharp data-access domain-modeling
August 15, 2007
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