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ewest

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About ewest

Canadian senior developer, solution architect, and technical writer with many years experience. I specialize in system integration on Microsoft platforms.

I'm also a published author of several books (technical and non-technical).

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    Really nice game...great job! Graphics are really nice.

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    SEEKING WORK - Remote or Toronto, Canada onsite Over 15 years experience with Microsoft technologies and specialization in integration using BizTalk server. Broad range of industri…

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    The article references a paper from 1980 called "On Understanding Laws, Evolution, and Conservation in the Large-Program Life Cycle". I just skimmed it - incredible insights that c…

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    from the article..."It won’t take long until there is virtually no time in between a movie release in theaters and a movie release on Netflix." ...not in Canada! Latest we have is …

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    This is great! I think it would be useful to provide more details about this. Perhaps include a 360 degree view (rotate); a view of the administrator's interface; sample report/aud…

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    >Error establishing a database connection This works... http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/sep14/09-30fu...

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    Just a day on the job as far as they were concerned. As with many things you might do, you only realize what you were doing was important (often) long after the fact.

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    Comment #8383473

    This is a really good article because it clearly lays out possible exploits; journalists could use this to more accurately report about this.

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    Comment #8350269

    How about sys 64738 (cold start/reboot) - useful in many ways!

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    Comment #7906077

    Nicely written - the last paragraph draws the whole arc...from C preprocessor directives to Twitter hashtags; brings it together.

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    I try to keep it simple - use the rss feed with something like newsblur and click stories I find interesting. So you can skip the big company stories and focus on what you prefer. …

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    I think a better experience is possible with a start button over a static background to provide the viewer with an idea about what they're about to get into.

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    Hi, Your story is really nice and your motivation is well stated in your blog post: "...the fragmented condition and outdated technologies of the commercial real estate industry co…

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    ..."in a non-Enterprise environment" - yes...well..expanding into an enterprise; using BizTalk server (Microsoft). I design and create SOA solutions through services exposed by/thr…

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    Comment #6470462

    Basic information: the time zone - it's not in the article, so how is this information useful?

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    I take it that both Google and Bing are broken...I get this message.. "um, you broke it. I could blame myself for letting you break it but that would make an ass out of you and me …

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    From the article..."Create an alternative", "...Find another way to give people a similar experience." Maybe PhoneGap...balsamiq...plus there are lots of apps for prototyping using…

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    >>...which is an extremely scaled down version of a real application You're putting the candidate in a very vulnerable and stressful position: You're potentially asking a candidate…

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    ...in other words, understand your customers. Nice 'onboarding' with the call to action to tweet to get rewarded with more info

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    The "mistake" is at the end... 'There are no breakout apps. There is no WhatsApp or DrawSomething. App.net remains a plaything for developers...' ...it certainly took them long eno…

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    I think firing the guy for this is pretty extreme - it does not allow for: * the owner to constructively handle issues like this (maybe like educating the 'offender') * the 'offend…

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    I think we're a little late to the party - this story is from July 15 and the facebook page for this dates back to May 15.