A Precarious Balance

November 2005 - Posts

• Rules that Resonate

  Found via way of the microISV blog , Evan Williams writes Ten Rules for Web Startups . His guidelines resonate with me, especially the one about being narrow and being greedy <g>. -- Sean Winstead Tags: ISV , Business Read More... Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 8:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ISV, Business

• Log Shipping: Updating log_shipping_secondaries

  In my current project, we're playing with SQL Server Log Shipping to see if it can be used to maintain a relatively fresh backup database. We haven't switched over to SQL Server 2005 yet, so we have not yet tried Data Mirroring. I ran into an interesting Read More... Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:58 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server

• Looking Ahead

  When working at prior jobs, one of the things that always nagged me was the feeling of always being behind. Not behind in "getting work done" sense. That's just a fact of life because there's always more to do than you can get done. When I first joined Read More... Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:15 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ISV

• Person, problem, solution

  Over the past two months I've read several good articles and blog posts related to finding out what your customers need. At What's Your Brand Mantra , Jennifer Rice writes the following: My personal philosophy on customer involvement is this: Find out Read More... Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 11:39 PM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: Customers, Business

• ASP.NET DataGrid.DataKeyField includes trailing spaces

  Today I was creating a simple ASP.NET form containing a DataGrid. The type of object to which it's binding has a property named NotifyID. For 15 minutes I tried to understand why I received the following run-time error: DataBinder.Eval: 'NaturalSelection.Velocity.Inventory.IN_GrowerProductWarehouseNotify' Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:48 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET