MicroStrategy certified
Posted by Matt Brotherson in announcements on April 6, 2007
Today I took the MicroStrategy report developer and project designer certification exams. I passed! Now I’m certified and ready to start tackling client projects. The only downside is that I might have to become a road warrior and start traveling frequently.
google analytics plugin
Posted by Matt Brotherson in code on March 6, 2007
I’ve released another plugin for wordpress. The details can be found here.
xmas early: hardware
Posted by Matt Brotherson in asides on December 6, 2006
Ahh…the joys of setting up a data center environment. We’ve got a new Watchguard Firebox x750e sitting here waiting on our cabinet, servers, UPS and managed switches to get here. I can’t wait to get my hands dirty and start setting everything up. It will be quite the steep learning curve for me and my associate that are handling this initiative as we both have about the same knowledge of networking and it is limited to basic tcp/ip, subnetting, etc. We’re going to be setting up some sweet VLAN’s and that is definitely an area we lack expertise in. Long hours and lots of beer should ensue shortly!
when the IDE hoses you
Posted by Matt Brotherson in asides on November 29, 2006
Great advances have been made in Integrated Development Environments over the past three years. These IDE’s aim to simplify every day development tasks – everything from compiling code to handling check in procedures with a version control provider to providing drag and drop design interfaces. I am constantly amazed at the advances made in Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET 2003 and they bested themselves once again with the 2005 version. Eclipse for java based development has come a long way since the first time I looked at it.
I’m lazy. Any advantage an IDE has to offer me, I’ll try and oblige them the opportunity. At my last company I did an experiment with our service oriented architecture to utilize the IDE to do most of the wiring for me from the data access to the visual representation by working with typed datasets returned from web services and presenting them via data grids. This was excellent as the IDE was able to save me many lines of code. Based on that success, I’ve tried to let IDE’s do things for me that I could normally do on my own. The attractive part of this type of functionality is that it saves you time and handles the plumbing portion for you.
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