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The Speed of Trust: Chapter 2
There were two points in the second chapter of The Speed of Trust that had an impact on me. Stewardship and Accountability I learned in this chapter that the Stephen Covey who wrote this book is the son of the … Continue reading
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"Please Prepay"
Yesterday’s post about The Speed of Trust hit me in a new way this morning when I was filling up with gas. The sign on the pump said, “Please Prepay.” Wow, does that slow things down, doesn’t it? Instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Leadership
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The Speed of Trust: Chapter 1
I’m slowly picking my way through Stephen Covey’s book, The Speed of Trust. In chapter one Stephen makes a compelling argument that trust makes a very real difference in the amount of time and money required to get work done. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Leadership
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Force a SQL Restore
Really tired of having to google this and piece it together every time I want it, so I’m posting it here. .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space: pre;*/ } … Continue reading
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User Experience: Find the Send Button
I typically use Gmail; I do have a Hotmail account and needed to use that for something the other day. I typed up my new message, and had to hunt for the Send button. It took about 5-10 seconds. I … Continue reading
Posted in General PC Usage, UX
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NDesk.Options
Parsing command-line arguments can be deceptively tricky. Often it starts as something very simple to do manually, but as more arguments and formats and flexibility are desired, the effort required to do it well can explode. So there are several … Continue reading
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Write MSMQ Messages from PowerShell
This PowerShell script sends a message to an MSMQ. I did it this particular way because NServiceBus can consume messages sent like this. [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Messaging”); $queueName = ‘.\Private$\your.queue.name’; $queue = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueue $queueName; $utf8 = new-object System.Text.UTF8Encoding; $tran = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueueTransaction; … Continue reading
Posted in CodeMinder, MSMQ, PowerShell, Programming
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Read MSMQ Messages from PowerShell
This script dumps the contents of an MSMQ to the console. This one dumps the Journal contents of a private queue; of course you’ll have to adjust that line for your queue. [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“System.Messaging”) $queueName = ‘.\Private$\your.queue.name\Journal$’; $queue = new-object System.Messaging.MessageQueue … Continue reading
Posted in CodeMinder, MSMQ, PowerShell, Programming
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JavaScript: this and that.
This is a brief description of a technique recommend by Douglas Crockford, probably in Act III of his JavaScript video series. Code that looks right, but is wrong: There are a few workarounds; the one Douglas Crockford recommends is to … Continue reading
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DuckDuckGo FTW
On a trial basis I’ve been using DuckDuckGo instead of Google for searches. You can even set Chrome up to use DuckDuckGo for queries typed into its “omnibar.” Today DuckDuckGo earned this blog post from me. I wanted to know … Continue reading
Posted in General PC Usage
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