August 2008 Entries
Last week, I travelled to Philadelphia to work out of my company's office in Exton for a week. Before leaving, I took my youngest daughter for a hike in the park, which was a two-fold treat for her: she got to spend time with Daddy, and as an extra bonus, she got to ride in Daddy's truck. Being a two-seater, it is not often used unless I'm spending some 1-on-1 time with one of the kids.
After returning from out hike, I parked it on the street in front of the house. It looked something like this picture that I took...
Have you ever gotten an idea stuck in your head? One that you start your day thinking about in the shower, and then try as you might, you just can't get rid of it?
That's what happened to me a few months ago. Specifically, I started thinking about Twitter, and the problems that it was experiencing. At that time, the "Fail Whale" was making very frequent appearances, indicating that Twitter was having problems keeping up with the demands being made on it. My Tweeps (social networking friends on Twitter), all with short attention spans like myself, began chattering about moving to...
I found out about 15 minutes ago that SQL Server 2008 RTM version is available for download from MSDN! Congratulations to the SQL Server team!
As I watch the 3 GB download trickle slowly onto my hard drive, I'm left with a few questions at this point, like what version of NETFX will be installed when I run setup? RC0 so nicely installed the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta Framework onto my machine, and since .NET 3.5 SP1 itself has not RTM'd, what are they going to do? Distribute the beta with the SQL Server RTM bits? Release .NET 3.5 SP1 to manufacturing? ...