How to do an Adobe Reader Custom Installation
Having just bought a new computer with a rather small (100 GB) SSD OS drive, I’m making every effort to install programs on the terabyte D: drive. So I get more than a bit cranky …
Customizing Confluence User Interface Text
Boilerplate text for Confluence pages is stored in a single file that can be modified. The file contains a long list of key value pairs. To determine the key value of the test you wish …
Hide Child Page List
A source of annoyance for me on our internal Confluence installation is the default list of child pages at the bottom of every page. I finally found a solution on Sarah Maddox’s blog post Confluence …
Adding ‘Recent Places’ to SSMS
I was recently frustrated by the plain Open File dialog box presented in SQL Server Management Studio. The Look in: options are limited to Desktop, My Projects, and My Computer. I make frequent use of …
Sticky Wikis
John Rotenstein, Business Intelligence Manager at Atlassian, made a presentation at the Atlassian Summit in San Francisco on how Atlassian makes its Confluence wiki “sticky.” As an international organization, Atlassian expects its employees to “live …
What’s in a brand?
What comes to mind when thinking about branding? Maybe a worldwide-recognized commercial product like Coca-Cola? or a successful commercial operation like McDonald’s? Did you think of yourself? Steve Jones presented ‘Branding Yourself for Your Dream …
SQL PASS Summit 2011, Day 1
I was very fortunate to get last-minute approval to attend the Summit. This is my third year attending, but the first time that I’ve represented my employer. I arrived late on Tuesday evening, so I …
Evernote FTW!
I am an apprentice GTDer, and continually look for ways to improve my ability to use the system successfully. After reading a few blogs that exhorted the benefits of Evernote for GTD, I thought I …
Atlassian to make big announcement!
On October 25, 2011, Atlassian is hosting a world-wide party to announce a new product launch. You can sign up to attend the Edmonton party on the Facebook event page. Come out and meet other …
A long time coming
Hurrah! I’m very happy today. After studying, on and off, for years, today I finally wrote and passed the Implementation and Maintenance exam for SQL Server 2008 (70-432). While on spring vacation, I made a …