Developers Anonymous

 Today I discovered 2 tools that I can't believe that I've missed up and till now. So for all you web developers out there who use Firefox check my entry here: http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/?p=26

I can assure you that this will change the way you optimize your web apps!

I have received numerous emails asking me why I'm not blogging here so often anymore. I recently set my own site so that I can begin trading off my own name. BUT I'm still going to cross post my important article here at DotNet.org.za because I firmly believe that this is where us South African developers should discuss .Net topics. Besides that, there is such a wealth of knowledge in the blogs contained here that I am going to try my best to live up to the standards set by the likes of Armand, Ernst, Willy Peter and so on.

So by all means check out http://www.stevenmcd.net

So here's the deal. I'm a developer at an insurance company. We are two full time developers, one full time report writer and then our manager develops whenever he has the time. Now we trying to get a new policy in place whereby users are not just allowed to call us directly. They have to make use of a system called SysAid. Now for those of you that don't what sysAid is, basically its a small app on which users can log help requests that then gets sent to us. Now that we starting to enforce the use of SysAid a lot of the users are no longer happy........

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REDMOND, Wash. — July 5, 2007 —Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights will now be covered by a three year warranty from date of purchase.  All other existing Xbox 360 warranty policies remain in place.

Thats right! After looking at the eNaTIS website trying to figure out why someone would want to deface already ugly looking sight, I looked at the source of the page and what do I see?

meta content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." name="Generator"

So our new Traffic Website is powered by a *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* Content Management System?! Thats right folks! This *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* implementation of Joomla! for the traffic department cost us, the taxpayers R408-million!

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Thats right! I just got engaged to the most amazing woman I've ever met. I mean DUH! Thats why I'm planning on marrying her. :)

I’m also using a Trial version of an application called “Ecto” to write this post........"

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