November 2006 Entries
In response to my entry on VB hotfixes being made more available, Paul L brought up a point that's worth addressing: While this is great (and long overdue), the truth of the matter is that most companies do not have the time and resources to download these hotfixes, test them, and then propogate them to other teams. Indeed, after installing *all* of the hotfixes that you list we still had envrionment issues that remain unresolved. Sure, we can contact PSS every time we run into something, but aren't we supposed to be spending our times working with tools that...
...it turns out the Live search box I tried to put on my blog broke comment submission. It's fixed now (by removing the search box) and you should be able to spam away!
I discussed a little while back that we've made a few hotfixes available to address some performance issues people have seen with VB. There's now a program that makes these hotfixes available as a regular download, rather than forcing you to call support. I'd recommend anyone running into performance problems give them a try...
Well, we found out last week that we are just a few short steps away from the happy arrival of two twin boys in our home! We got word that we'd cleared the last major bureaucratic hurdle in the adoption process, and we're hoping that we'll be able to have Ben and Sam home by Christmas. This is, of course, enomously wonderful news and enomously frightening news at the same time--now we actually have to, you know, parent and stuff. We've got plenty of pictures, but I'm not putting any up until we're actually home, safe and sound, just so's...