Sunday, October 23, 2005
About Me

I am a Software Engineer at ServiceU Corporation - located in Memphis, TN.  ServiceU offers event management, event registration, online ticketing, and online donations services to churches, community theaters, and other venues.  These services are offered through  our products EventU, TicketU, and TransactU.  To read more about and some of ServiceU's technical achievements, see the blog post by one of our engineers, James Hanauer.

Community | Musings
Sunday, October 23, 2005 10:16:30 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Saturday, October 22, 2005
Window x64 and Cisco VPN Client

I got a new computer recently.  Here's my setup:

I was interested to test out the 64-bit version of Windows, and I was pleasently surprised with the number of drivers that came preconfigured with the installation.  After the install process, my LCD monitor even came up at 1600 x 1200 with no video driver installation - impressive (I'm easily entertained.)  BUT after I started to get all set up with my standard home workstation software, I found that Cisco's VPN client refused to install on x64 Windows!  This is not good!  So I did what any good nerd would do... Google!  Unfortunately with no success.  You know, if you can't connect to your work computer with your primary home computer, that's a problem!  Long (boring) story short, I am now running Windows XP 32-bit which is uber less exciting (and nerdy.)  Let me know if you find a 64-bit Cisco VPN client!

Hardware | Windows
Sunday, October 23, 2005 5:59:40 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [10]  | 
 Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Visual Studio has Debugging Memory Leaks
From time to time, I notice Visual Studio running sluggishly, so of course I bring up the trusted Process Explorer and here is what I see:
 
 
Half a gig of private bytes.  Over a gig of virtual memory.  Impressive.  Best I can tell, VS 2003 seems to bloat exponentially when debugging (that's what I had been doing all day.)  Perhaps it's not unloading all the PDBs it's done with them?  I'm not sure, but the end result is definitely impressive.  The fix?  Restarting VS is the best I've come up with.  Hopefully this is fixed in 2005...
.NET | Visual Studio
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:51:44 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Tuesday, October 18, 2005
PDC ShowOff

I'm way late on getting this out, but if you haven't seen it yet, ShowOff is an interesting place to see what other devs are doing with the .NET platform.  My favorite (and apparently everyone else's too with 33,704 views) is cameraFlow Labyrinth.

.NET
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 9:29:55 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  | 
 Thursday, October 13, 2005
Remote Desktop Rocks!

One of the slickest features of Windows XP is Remote Desktop (also known as "Terminal Services".)  This little utility allows you to connect to another XP box and (you'll never guess) control it remotely.  There are 2 primary ways of running RD:

1. From the run prompt, type "mstsc", and click OK:

2. Select is from the start menu:

One of the most useful abilities of RD is copying and pasting files between your host XP session and your remote XP session.  In order to enable this behavior, you must enable the connecting of diskdrives when connecting to a remote computer:

Windows
Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:32:52 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  | 

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