In an IT department there is a tendency to classify operations as being reactive or proactive and, often, pressure to have more of the latter and less of the former. Pressure, that is, until a PC breaks down, a network connection drops, a data record goes missing, or any of a dozen other issues which will ultimately receive more attention than disaster recovery, employee development, business analysis, strategic planning and the rest of a long list of proactive tasks. Immediate, defined problems are far easier to focus on than tenuous concepts of proactive prevention.

Level of Pain...

I was running into this error when running my Nunit-tests.

Executing : C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.5.2\bin\net-2.0\nunit-console.exe

With Command Line : TDB2009.View.Test.C.dll

NUnit version 2.5.2.9222

Copyright (C) 2002-2009 Charlie Poole.

Copyright (C) 2002-2004 James W. Newkirk, Michael C. Two, Alexei A. Vorontsov.

Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Philip Craig.

All Rights Reserved.

Runtime Environment -

OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

CLR Version: 2.0.50727.3...

Can I help you?

There are several levels of support for SQL Server. Putting these levels on paper and knowing which to choose for your own particular problem can be a task in itself at times. I hope the following definitions of four levels of support will help you in deciding where to turn to obtain the quickest solutions.

Defining levels

1. Books and BOL
2. User groups /Posting ques...

This week was my first week trying the stand-up desk concept. While I had read of many people converting their office, I'm going to be reporting directly from the trenches, after spending a week in a cubicle with a stand-up desk and a list of architecture and development tasks that kept me tied to my desk, all day, every day.

The Desk

The last few months I have seen several posts about stand-up desks, with Ron Pereira showing his new setup, Kevin Mayer discussing

By now you probably have heard or seen the complains that there is no viable 64 bit VPN client that will work with a Cisco VPN. I myself either used a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box) or I have a dual boot system where I boot into the Fisher Price looking OS to VPN into work.

Yesterday my suffering ended. I downloaded the Shrew Soft VPN Client For Windows and it has been working great. It will even import Cisco pcf files so that you don't need to configure the VPN client if you already have the Cisco pcf files.

Download the Shrew Soft VPN client here: