This past weekend, over 200 people attended the second annual Open Houston Hackathon. The project I worked on with my team proved to be very interesting, not only because of its focus – making government more efficient through the sharing of purchasing data using the Price History application developed originally by the GSA, and certainly … Read more
This past week I installed Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition on my dev box, and immediately ran into a problem I had never seen before. I’ve installed various versions of SQL Server countless times, and it is usually a painless procedure. Install the server, run the Management Console, it’s that simple. However, after completing … Read more
As a part of my project to convert a Lotus Notes system to something else, I am making good use of SharePoint Lists to replicate the functionality of some of the less complex Notes applications. For some of these databases, I am exporting the documents into Structured Text, then converting the structured text to Excel … Read more