http://www.tech-crm.com News and Views of a Technical Nomad Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:23:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Things have been a bit hectic of late at work as we went live with a new Siebel release last weekend which meant that I had to come in on both Saturday and Sunday; once to deploy the new Siebel Repository and migrate the data and once to fix some ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=177 Well, as I said below, I am in Seattle and I have been since March. Right now I have just been extended so I will be here until mid-September which gets me over the August job slump. As I am working in the USA, I am on a visa. As I ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=176 Well, as usual, it's been ages, since I posted anything here. This is something I regret as blogging online is quite interesting and I often write about things that catch my eye. I have been working on a contract in Seattle since early March and that has taken some of my attemtion ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=175 SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, must be a pre-occupation of quite a few webmasters and it is probably something that might even, from time to time, keep them awake at night. SEO, for the uninitiated, is the process by which websites are configured and designed in order to be "attractive" to ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=174 Well a month has passed since my last post here and I am still at home waiting to find my next contract assignment, but strangely enough I have not been sat idle in front of the television. In between working the phones trying to sort out resumes and interviews; I have ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=173 Well I am now finished with my contract in Ottawa so that means it's back looking for a new contract and who knows where that will be. Once again, I apologise for not updating this blog for a while. In Ottawa, I was very busy going to the National Archives almost ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=172 Wishing all my visitors a very happy Christmas and New Year! http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=171 I thought I would start to share useful programming/database solutions and fixes that I come across in both my professional and personal programming existences. This is both to share my experience with others and to provide me with a scrap book of code that I can re-use in the future. Personally, I ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=170 Well, things have been chugging along on the development front for Orders of Battle. I have now completed the rewrite of the windows client and the middle tier to use LINQ and developed a new LINQ for Entities DLL to replace the old data tier that relied on stored procedures. I ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=169 As someone who is pretty new to Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, I have not spared a lot of thought for the upcoming .NET 4 which will be part of Visual Studio 2010 which has already appeared in Beta 1 form. For that reason, this article in Redmond Developer News ... http://www.tech-crm.com/?p=168