TortoiseSVN

I was looking for alternatives to Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Visual Source Safe, when one of Google's search results (hope it was Live) brought me to Tortoise SVN. At first, I really thought it is another senseless software. But after I installed, it proved me wrong. Though this is more of a plug-in to Windows Explorer, it is still great. I believe I will be loving this for long.

One of the projects in my current company is using this software. We are basically a Microsoft Company, so I was expecting all projects are using TFS. Well, it still depends with the client.

Congrats to stag Philippines Inc.

Congrats to stag Philippine's new set of Microsoft Certified Professional. They took and passed their examination (70-315) at DBWizards in Makati City.

• Celestino Reyes
• Mark Phillip Ozaeta
• Ruben Genonganan (my team lead) 

And for those who are about to take the exam on October 31st (that includes me)… PRAY FOR US.

Too many updates

No wonder my personal computer, together with my internet connection had gone to being a slowpoke. It was downloading 80+ updates and counting. 

Anyways, atleast I know that all critical patches will be installed to my PC once it is done.

ASP.NET Membership Roles

I was getting bored lately since there is no office for three straight days. So I decided to develop an Art Gallery Acquisition System. This system is a web-based asset management systems specifically designed for Art Galleries. My group mate and I had already developed this kind of system way back in 3rd year college. It was, however, a window based application; and very simple.

I started it by creating the ASP.NET Users and Roles. At first, I was thinking that if I modify the web.config with the Enterprise Library Configuration, and point the connection string to the database I created, it is all done. Well, it was not. I have to do some tweaks, and this is how I do it:

1. Run aspnet_regsql.exe. Point the database to your defined database.
2. Modify the connectionstring under configuration of the web config as follows
• Remove LocalSqlServer as <remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
• Re-add LocalSqlServer with the connection string pointing to your intended database.

And, all the users that I am creating are saved in my database.

Getting myself pissed off…

I am getting myself all pissed off again this week. I am doing nothing in the office except to fix few errors in our release; which later turned out not our fault but the client's fault. Gosh, we send them all updates including instructions, and yet they ignore them. When the errors start to show up, they began blaming us? Well, just as what FISH (ITRM) told me today, we can do nothing about it but to please their stupidity.

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

Still using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox to see your Windows Live Mail. Well check this out… Microsoft Outlook Connector is now out of Beta. I downloaded and installed it… Just a little disappointment… it seems not to work properly under limited user account and with my anti virus on.

New Phone

I decided to buy a brand new cellular phone at Greenhills, since I am getting frequent calls for the past two weeks, plus the fact that my old phone is already worthless. It was a Nokia 3110c, and it cost me only Php7,000. Not a bad thing since it got all the features that I wanted, particularly being portable, and having MP3 player, radio, usb, memory card and even games. This is also my first major expense out of my salary from my present work.

Pursuing MCPD

I really don't get it. Why are the my seniors pursuing an MCAD track? They could have MCPD instead. Anyways, I am pursuing MCPD track. For we all know, technology evolves. So is the certification.

Need to change AV

I just visited AOL ActiveVirusShield website for product update when I noticed that the product is no longer available for download. I have been using this software for almost a year now, and I could say that I had very little to complain against it. It was able to protect my personal computing against all types and viruses, worms, Trojans and even spywares. All other free security software includes antivirus only. And much to it, AOL ActiveVirusShield is also able to delete and quarantine malicious files even it is inside an archive (zip or rar). It was also the antivirus of choice according to comments on download.com . So it was a total shocker for me to know that this great tool is no longer available. Though AOL has a replacement for this which is powered by McAfee, still the replacement is a resource hog. Ok, I admit that I have been using McAfee in the past, and I could pretty much say that its heuristic is one of the best when it comes to antivirus solutions. However, it consumes much of my computer resources.

As a resolution, I would not risk on using this software which I believe the support will cease soon. I’ll use AVG for a meantime, unless I could find any free antivirus software that could match the satisfaction AOL ActiveVirusShield had given me.

Archive

I believe that this pictures deserved to be posted here rather than in my old blog.