Eric Wise

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• See you at TheRuntime.com

  I write this post with a mix of excitement and sadness. The exciting part is that I am helping form a new developer community site at http://www.TheRuntime.com . The sad part is that I will no longer be blogging at Codebetter. When Codebetter was first... Posted Nov 12 2007, 10:43 AM by Eric Wise with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: ASP .NET, Business / IT, C#, Patterns and Practices, Personal, Rants, SQL, VB .NET

• Rejecting Software Engineering

  When I actually get some free time and surf around the blogosphere I often see people referring to software as "engineering". I've always had a problem with this term because it implies things about software development that simply are not... Posted Jun 26 2007, 10:39 AM by Eric Wise with | with 62 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• Bye Bye Team Foundation Server

  Ya know, I really tried to give team foundation server a fair shake. My opinion on it is as follows: It's a generally better source control system than source safe. It's really expensive. It's a pain in the ass to administrate. It's a... Posted May 31 2007, 02:32 PM by Eric Wise with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• Lobbying for change in the consulting industry

  I think most people who have been in the IT industry for an average amount of time can agree with my perception that for the most part, the consulting industry is garbage. Consultants are expensive, usually on par or worse than your full time employees... Posted Feb 12 2007, 09:59 AM by Eric Wise with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants, Patterns and Practices

• A modest proposal (off topic)

  Simple rant, nothing more. Just sent in some immigration papers for my wife, who is a Swedish citizen who came here when we got married. The paperwork carried a $275 processing fee. This brings the total since she came here two years ago to be well over... Posted Feb 06 2007, 08:55 PM by Eric Wise with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, Rants

• Predictions for 2007

  Some humerous, some serious. Here we go! YouTube goes down in history as one of worst business decisions ever After the **AA machines chew it up and spit it out, YouTube goes the way of the napster and other content providers before it. It will also then... Posted Jan 02 2007, 08:13 PM by Eric Wise with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants

• System.Transactions MSDTC Issue

  Ready to pull my hair out over this one. Decided to use System.Transactions in my latest project, so being I'm doing my development on my local machine with a dev SQL Server 2005 install on a 2k3 machine I need to turn on MSDTC stuff... So running... Posted Dec 06 2006, 10:52 AM by Eric Wise with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: C#, SQL, Rants, ASP .NET

• Minirant : Paypal

  Dear Paypal, Your api documentation and setup process... what's the right word... sucks. The sign up process is pretty confusing with menu overload, and the fact that you need dozens of third party vendors to build wrapper carts says something about... Posted Oct 11 2006, 08:12 AM by Eric Wise with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Rants

• Know Your Role

  Nothing is more dangerous than a programmer pushed into a DBA role who doesn't know crap about databases. Too often, you see consultancies, smaller organizations, and people in general trying to save a buck and not bring any DBA presence on board... Posted Aug 28 2006, 06:37 PM by Eric Wise with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants, Patterns and Practices

• More "broadband" pain

  Another weekend, another chance at a learning opportunity missed. I was hoping to download and install the latest CTP of SQL Server 2005 but once again my "broadband" provider is happily charging me $44/month for high speed service that isn't what any... Posted Jun 25 2005, 08:05 PM by Eric Wise with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Rants

• Self-Made Slaves

  It's politics day on CodeBetter.com, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to weigh in on a few concepts about wages, unions, personal finances, and the IT business in general. The American Dream Sahil makes an interesting point in his post about the... Posted Jun 20 2005, 07:10 AM by Eric Wise with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Business / IT, Rants

• *sigh*

  I'd like to have VS 2005 from the MSDN account I paid good money for. However my provider, My-eSuite just isn't going to let me. 4.9 kb/s, 288 hours. So I'll be blogging about VS 2005 sometime in May. That's my "broadband" cable modem service. No other... Posted Apr 17 2005, 08:02 AM by Eric Wise with | with no comments Filed under: Rants

• Of scary security practices

  Jay had a little mini rant this morning about passwords and security. It's Friday, should be a happy day, so I'm just going to list out some rather absurd security practices I've encountered in my years of consulting and development. A major (fortune... Posted Apr 08 2005, 08:02 AM by Eric Wise with | with no comments Filed under: Easy Web Applications, Patterns and Practices, Rants

• Have people lost their minds?

  There must be some kind of lunar activity drawing all the freaks out. I have read some ridiculous FUD today. Let's recap shall we? From slashdot Apparently if you don't have your firewall turned on you're vulnerable to an attack. Alright, granted the... Posted Mar 07 2005, 12:32 PM by Eric Wise with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Rants

• Broadband?

  You know, I'm so freaking tired of my “broadband” internet provider. My eSuite supposedly provides me broadband internet over cable modem. I've complained and they've sent techs out several times to “check“ and the techs have reported... Posted Jan 13 2005, 08:50 PM by Eric Wise with | with 161 comment(s) Filed under: Rants