Yes, EVER!!! It will be this Sunday night (12/24/2006), Christmas Eve in the G-Lounge. You may arrive as early as 7:00 PM. There will be games, door prizes, and plenty of alcohol with people from all over the country. We have two special guests all the way from California: Richard Smith and Michelle Harder (soon to be married, so don’t hit on them… too much). We expect another strong turnout from Jacksonville and Niceville this year. You are welcome to bring guests.
Party Checklist…
When you create a backup job with the MySQL Administrator the backup will not execute properly in the MS Scheduler runing on x64. Right click the job in the MS Scheduler and change “-c” to “-C” (xp64 bug).
From command line:
cd c:\inetpub\adminscripts cscript adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1
Thats it.
As an application developper you often need to write some logs for your application, and hopefully there is actually many framework to ease your pain: Log4net, Entlib Logging Application Block, etc. But when it come to read those logs, extract statistics or to do some alert or action on them, things become harder. Actually a free command line tool from Microsoft name LogParser and it is quite awesome: you can query any log and data sources (database, event log, iis logs, file system, registry, etc.) with a complexe SQL query (I mean with functions, group by, etc.).
On the down side, using it from the command line become quickly boring as you need to type your sql query in a DOS prompt. As we failed to find any intuitive GUI for logParser, we just start to build our own, by assembling the following pieces: the logparser engine, a “visual studio” like MDI dockable interface, syntax highlighting…

Some other notes…
Do an insert to a db with the log parser utility from IIS resource toolkit:
C:\Program Files\IIS Resources\Log Parser>logparser "SELECT date, time, c-ip, cs -uri-stem, cs-uri-query, cs-username FROM C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC201 2337366\*.log TO test2 WHERE SUBSTR( cs-uri-stem, LAST_INDEX_OF(cs-uri-stem,'.'), STRLEN(cs-uri-stem)) = '.asp'" -i:IISW3C -o:SQL -server:teas-db1 -usern ame:sa -password:"foobar" -driver:"SQL Server" -database:kevin_temp -createtable:ON
Here is the story…
John Beschler, lead developer, was a little upset about our users having trouble with our website. He walked by my cube while someone mentioned someone else having trouble with our intrAnet site. Our site is well done and well tested and user friendly… anyway, John got all upset and turned red in the face and said, “It’s already an idiot proof website!”. While the people around him looked at him confused I looked up the domain. The rest is history.
-kc