Steve Bargelt

Awesome technology: SawStop

The SawStop is about the coolest thing I've ever seen. Okay the Celestron SkyScout might be a tad bit more fun. BTW - my pre-order for the SjyScout was delayed until the end of June. Dangit!

http://www.sawstop.com/

SawStop's 10” cabinet saw was developed from the ground up with a particular focus on safety and quality. It features a revolutionary safety system that stops and retracts the blade (within 5 milliseconds) upon accidental contact, drastically reducing the severity of user injury. The safety system provides invisible protection (doesn't interfere with your work), is always “on” and performs continuous self tests.

posted @ Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:59 AM | Feedback (1) |

Google playing catch-up??

I love Dare Obasanjo’s blog – it is always a great read. In a recent post Dare points out that everyone is raving about “new” Google features that Microsoft has had for months (or years).

1. Domain hosting (http://domains.live.com/)
2. IM Integration with email (http://www.hotmail.com)
3. Desktop Search (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx)

I’m really glad I read Dare’s post… I just moved my personal email over to http://domains.live.com – I’ll report soon on the service.

Go read Dare's post... it's good:

[from this post: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Been There, Done That, Now Watcing Google Catch Up]

A couple of folks at work have been commenting on how the blogosphere has been raving about a couple of recent announcements from Google yet seemed to ignore similar functionality when it showed up in competing products. Here are three examples from this week.

posted @ Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:47 AM | Feedback (0) |

Selenium: Web-based Acceptance Testing Done Right?

Dave Churchville writes:

[from this post: Agile Project Planning: Web-based Acceptance Testing Done Right]

The Selenium project (sponsored by ThoughtWorks) has been quietly making an in-browser automated testing facility. It just went from interesting to compelling with the introduction of Selenium IDE, a free Firefox extension that lets you record, script, save and execute in-browser acceptance tests.

posted @ Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:41 AM | Feedback (0) |

ChubClub 2006: Week 6

263.8 pounds with 24.5 % body fat. I’m happy with the weight but that body fat # needs to budge!!! I knew going in that measuring my body fat coudl be hit-and-miss with my scale. I’m not going to sweat it.  

Training

• Weights: Friday, Monday, Wednesday – typical workout all three nights. Abdominal and leg work Friday and Monday. Extra bicep work Friday and Monday nights.
• Cardio: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday. Three days isn’t so bad. I just couldn’t do it Tuesday morning… Zoe was up all night. Argh! Excuses, excuses!

Food

Did well – even with the SuperBowl party I managed to drop 2.6 pounds.

Stats

Today (2/9/06) 263.8, 24.5% BF
Started (1/1/06) 271, 25.3 BF%

Here are the charts for 2006 (click for larger versions):

posted @ Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:35 AM | Feedback (1) |

Office 12 NDA news

Been wondering about this for a while now. I guess I can say that I love the Office 12 client apps, now, eh??

[from this post: Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » Office 12 NDA news]

There’s some confusion going around about the Office 12 NDA. So, I checked with the folks who know over on Office 12. Here’s the deal:
Press (which include bloggers) are allowed to write about client apps - specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, Visio, Project, OneNote and InfoPath. Products still under NDA include Groove and all our server products.

posted @ Monday, February 06, 2006 4:11 PM | Feedback (0) |

Congrats to the Steelers!! (and STFU Seattle)

• What about the three Jerramy Stevens dropped passes? Drive killers!
• What about the inexcusable clock management by the Seahawks at the end of the half AND at the end of the game?
• Two missed field goals.
• The Seahawks gave up the longest run from scrimmage ever in a SuperBowl (Willie Parker, 75 yards).
• The Steelers held Shaun Alexander to 95 yards.
• Tom Rouen had four opportunities to pin the Steelers deep. The result? Four touchbacks.
• Seattle must have known the trick play was coming. Right? How could they have not? Side note: Marcus Trufant did an excellent job considering Ward was not his guy... he almost got close enough to make a play. Trufant is a stud.
• Can Hearndon not run 85 yards without getting winded? Seriously I think several of the Steelers' offensive line were catching up to him... and he is a safety for chrissake!!!

posted @ Monday, February 06, 2006 8:31 AM | Feedback (5) |

Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter

Project? Yuk! I have not had a chance to look at this yet – so this is not a validation of the content. I mostly just wanted to blog the link for future reference.

[from this page: Download details: Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter]

Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter
Brief Description
The download includes the project template and source code for the COM add-in for Microsoft® Office Project Professional 2003 or Project Standard 2003 that enables the Scrum methodology of Agile project management and graphical analysis in Microsoft Office Excel®.

posted @ Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:41 AM | Feedback (0) |

SharePoint Web Part Code Snippets for VS 2005

Thanks for sharing, Jan!!!!

[from this post: SharePoint Web Part Code Snippets for VS 2005]

When you want to develop web parts for SharePoint the “traditional” way, it’s good idea to use the Web Part Templates for Visual Studio .NET. These templates will give you a start class to quickly build web parts. Unfortunately these templates are not (yet?) available for Visual Studio 2005. Since Windows SharePoint Services SP2 you can run your WSS sites on .NET 2.0, so you can build your SharePoint web parts with Visual Studio 2005. Given that copy/pasting code is rather cumbersome I’ve create a couple of code snippets for Visual Studio 2005 that will generate code for a SharePoint Web Part. Currently I’ve got code snippets to create:

• C# Web Part (shortcut wp)
• C# Web Part Property (shortcut wpprop)
• C# Tool Part (shortcut tp)

posted @ Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:35 AM | Feedback (1) |

ChubClub 2006: Week 5

266.4 pounds with 24.6 body fat. Actually I’m a bit disappointed that I didn’t drop more weight this week. I ate right, I added cardio to my workout regimen and I didn’t slack on the weights. A bit frustrating… but I won’t let it get me down. A few weeks like this and then maybe I’ll be a bit more upset.

Training

• Weights: Monday, Wednesday – typical workout both nights. Extra abdominal, leg and bicep work both nights. I skipped last Friday – my shoulder was really acting up. Skipping one workout seemed to have helped.
• Cardio: Finally some good news to report here. My treadmill was delivered on Saturday (1/28) and I’ve been on it for at least 30 minutes a day since! Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for 30 minutes each day… various programs – all keeping my heart rate in the optimal fat-burn range.

Food

I’ve been good all week. Probably the worst thing that I ate was a cookie that came with a lunch we had delivered to a meeting yesterday – oh yeah and the sandwich wasn’t on wheat bread. Oh the shame, the horror!

Stats

Today (2/2/06) 266.4, 24.6% BF
Started (1/1/06) 271, 25.3 BF%

Here are the charts for 2006 (click for larger versions):

posted @ Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:29 AM | Feedback (1) |

Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development

This site is AWESOME!

[from this post: Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development]

After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You've always known a good waterfall-based process is the right way to develop software projects. Come to the Waterfall 2006 conference and see how a sequential development process can benefit your next project. Learn how slow, deliberate handoffs (with signatures!) between groups can slow the rate of change on any project so that development teams have more time to spend on anticipating user needs through big, upfront design.

posted @ Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:31 PM | Feedback (0) |

Goodbye Intel

I will never buy another Intel processor. Ever. AMD… I love you! 

The Intel Chip. For years, it’s been trapped inside PCs, inside dull little boxes dutifully performing dull little tasks when it could have been doing so much more. Starting today, the Intel chip will be set free and get to live inside a Mac. Imagine the possibilities.

Is anyone else in the PC world pissed off by the new Mac/Intel ads? Apparently Intel thinks that it is perfectly acceptable tell me (through the Apple ad) that the thousands of dollars that I’ve personally (not to mention the tens of thousands of dollars that I’ve approved or recommend to various employers, clients family and friends) spent on their processors over the past couple of decades were a complete waste of money because I (as the ad accuses) only do dull little tasks on dull little boxes. Well f-you Intel and f-you Apple.

So not only is AMD wiping the floor with Intel ion the technology arena (AMD’s dual-core story is better, AMD’s 64–bit story is better, AMD’s power consumption story is better) now Intel is alienating the folks that put them on top. Rookie move, Intel.

And you know what? Rookie move, Apple! Why? Apple is effectively telling the people that you want to convert (WinTel users) that that have only been doing dull little tasks on dull little boxes. I think a basic rule of sales and marketing is to not belittle your perspective client base!

Well Intel – I guess this is goodbye. It has been a wild ride. Thanks for stabbing me in the back.  

posted @ Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:30 PM | Feedback (1) |

Blog on SharePoint? Blogparts 1.1

[from Steen Molberg: Release of The Blogparts 1.1 - Steen Molberg's Blog]

Looks like Steen has done some very cool work to create a set of SharePoint web parts that allows you to create blogs on a standard SharePoint site.

…and for the terminology police out there: Steen uses the terms “SharePoint web parts” and “SharePoint site.” I see no reason his web parts would not run on either WSS or SPS.

posted @ Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:43 AM | Feedback (0) |

The IT Crowd

I watched the first episode this morning as I walked on the treadmill. I’m always looking for new downloadable content to watch during workouts. This show was pretty funny and seems to have potential. Yeah it is a bit over-the-top – but funny.

[Channel4.com - IT Crowd]

A kleptomaniac, fast food junkie addicted to computer games, a dysfunctional social outcast who is still dressed by his mother, and a woman who knows absolutely nothing about computers - meet the IT Crowd

Here are links to view/download the episodes… the links on the official website did not work for me last night.

Episode one: Yesterday’s Jam
Episode two: Calamity Jen

posted @ Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:33 AM | Feedback (0) |