Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Softricity from CRN

(Patrick - this is the sort of virtualization I was talking about Friday night...)

Makes good sense. I assume it holds true for any recordset.
Enhancing code performance when working with databases

It's the little things...

I've been working on a new Citrix design, part of which includes a pair of secure Web Interface servers with a single DNS alias. I had set this up in the past, albeit with lots of help from other engineers. I'm usually very good about documentation, I thrive on it, but for some crazy reason I hadn't written down ANYTHING about this process. Yikes!

I managed to get through it, though, configure the two web servers to use the same SSL cert on the same host header. I even managed to setup and use a Windows CA for the cert! So a relatively minor task for many, but it felt like a big accomplishment for me. I was so pumped up, I felt the urge to channel a previous co-worker, get up on my desk and dry hump my monitor. Though now that I'm no longer working in a dark corner of the basement of a library, and I can't hide behind the three-foot-high cube walls, I reconsidered my actions and went for a simple double fist pump.

Now onto Citrix Secure Gateway....

A little self-publicity....

Moving the SMS Database Transaction Log

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Verizon gets cable deal in Baltimore County

No explicit mention of it but this is Verizon FIOS which offers 15Mbps + TV for half of what I'm paying now for basic cable + 5Mbps internet. With the ability to go up to 30Mbps. Baltimore County initially cock-blocked Verizon with some ridiculous surcharge for laying fiber (something like $2/foot) because Baltimore Co. is in bed with Comcast. Obviously something changed!