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Document Scheduled Jobs with Google Calendar
27.Aug.08 | Leave a Comment
I’ve literally spent years trying to come up with a rational and simple way to document the scheduled jobs that I have running on multiple servers.
My jobs tend not to be anything fancy – in fact, Windows Task Scheduler and the scheduler in SQL Server tend to satisfy my requirements just fine. But lordy, I [...]
Maybe I Contributed to the Windows-based Kitchen Client
07.Jun.07 | Leave a Comment
Mary Jo Foley, the Microsoft watcher over at ZD Net, wrote an article yesterday about the upcoming “kitchen client” Windows platforms. These two paragraphs should sum it up if you’ve not read it yet:
The ?Kitchen Client? software will extend the Windows operating system and integrate with current and future Windows Live services, according to sources [...]
The Wonders of 7-Zip
06.Apr.07 | 1 Comment
This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put a lot of [...]
Cozi Central - Family. Organized
14.Feb.07 | 3 Comments
With a working wife and three kids ranging from 15 to 6, I'll be the first to admit I'm frequently a bit confused about who needs to be where -- and when they need to be there. My wife and I have spent many evenings and weekends doing a complicated vehicle dance [...]
