Mount a VMware .vmdk File

After years of using VMware products, I still stumble over features and utilities all the time. Here’s my latest discovery.

I hate to risk losing data or configurations so before I retire a server I convert it to a virtual machine. The same with employee PCs. When someone leaves, I convert it to a VM before

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Working With WordPress and Windows IIS

I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite

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Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta 2010

Hey Denver area folks: Tomorrow, February 27, 2010, is this year’s Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta event in downtown Denver.

The Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-Fecta is a free, information-packed day of practical training and information concentrated in .NET, SQL Server, SharePoint and Microsoft Windows technologies. There will be  loads of sessions on a wide range of interesting

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Oops!

Nothing is more painful than making a technical presentation to a bunch of folks who don’t really get it or care about details like performance or security. The author of “A Big Case of …OOPS…” was suffering through just that situation when things took an interesting turn.

He was talking web site vulnerabilities when one of

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Facebook Chat Everywhere

A couple of weeks ago the Facebook folks announced their support for Jabber/XMPP. If you’re a Facebook fan this is a big deal as that announcement opens up FB chat to all of the multi-protocol IM applications. No more having to endure the web-based version.

If you’re a Pidgin user, as I am, check out this

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