Sunny Thursday

Here I sit during my lunch hour to add more items to this blog. It is nice outside, very sunny and pretty – a day that I wished I could stay home and do some outdoor stuff.   Oh well, I got to bring home the bacon so I don’t have much of a choice here.

Well I have had an interesting month in February at work, learned how to do the SSIS application in Microsoft SQL.  I think it sucks compared to the old SQL DTS application.  Too many security restrictions and doesn’t give you any warning on the job is going to fail.   Typical Microsoft product…find ways to make your lives miserable while emptying your wallet and wasting your time.  The SSIS application is created by the use of the Visual Studio Business Intelligence Development tools.  It is a pretty slick application, but deploying it is a bitch.  Thanks to Google for letting me find the answers how to do this.

Found another Microsoft Windows 2008 caveat, with a new service called Windows Problem Reports and Solutions that writes data to your hard drive.  Turned on by default and it makes you wonder why your disk space is running low.  I killed that service and gained a few gigabytes back once I purged the reports.  It should be turned OFF by default and give you the ability to use it when you are trying to troubleshoot Windows issues.  Remember, it is another Microsoft product.

My next step is to do some SalesForce development from a class I took a while back, wish me luck on that.   Writing the app is not an issue, the big issue is deployment, you have to have some test logic built in to publish or it won’t let you.  You can write all day in SalesForce sandbox, but to publish  in production, you have to have your ducks in a row or else it will fail.