Author Archives: Erik

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A Computer Guy

VSTS Build, Deploy, and Release

Posted on 2018/07/03 by Erik

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) online https://www.visualstudio.com is a wonderful tool: I don’t have to build and maintain my own TFS server; the cost is nearly free; and the CI / CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliver) is turning out to be a time saver…. in the long run. However I found the learning curve to be a couple of days steep, and that was painful in the middle of a project when I’m the only developer on staff, and the interface is changing as I write. Continue reading →

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Protected: Power BI is soooo… useless

Posted on 2018/03/13 by Erik

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WEIAPI Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Runtime…’

Posted on 2018/01/10 by Erik

Over the last few weeks I’ve been refactoring in a number of ways and the solution “went sideways”… (I wonder what the etymology of that phrase may be?). I’ve worked through a lot of it, but right now the abstract … Continue reading →

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Walker Engineering, Inc. API (WEIAPI) Architecture and Development

Posted on 2018/01/10 by Erik

I’m admittedly starting in the middle, as I write this article; the Walker Engineering, Inc API (WEIAPI) is intended to be the architectural foundation for a full Service Oriented Architecture leveraging Azure and a Hybrid SQL Data Model which I’ll … Continue reading →

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Long time… let’s catch up.

Posted on 2018/01/10 by Erik

1,232 days to be exact; I told you I don’t talk much… My current code project is actually what is motivating me to begin writing again. I think it an elegant design, but implementation is literally giving me headaches, probably … Continue reading →

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…one man’s functional Enterprise Service… another man’s time bomb…

Posted on 2014/08/27 by Erik

’nuff said… however   From: XXXXX E. XXXXXXX [mailto:XXXXXXXX@XXXXX.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:29 PM To: Help Desk (Support) Subject: Product Downgrading We have an issue  with the several computers that have 4.5.7 installed. We’ll get the computers setup with new … Continue reading →

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PowerShell to import existing Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) logs into SQL

Posted on 2013/11/08 by Erik

One of our Administrators set up Microsoft NPS to log locally on the C: drive. The drive was a bit too small at 50GB, so was becoming a maintenance nightmare. We chased the problem down to the c:\windows\system32\logfiles\ folder but … Continue reading →

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The Sky is Falling! (#0000) Part 1

Posted on 2011/03/23 by Erik

I’m naming this blog entry as The Sky is Falling! (0000) because I anticipate many more to come in the series. Think I should use 5 zeros? – Naw, I probably won’t live that long. I would like to thank … Continue reading →

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Easy & Secure Cloud Storage: Parker’s Cloud History

Posted on 2011/03/15 by Erik

Parker College of Chiropractic has been using Amazon “Simple Storage Service” (S3) for incidental data storage of audio files and documents since May 2009. Interest in the arena was primarily due to the “cool” factor, and secondarily to as a … Continue reading →

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Car Buying – the saga continues – with a happy ending

Posted on 2011/03/13 by Erik

The saga continued on Sunday. We went across Airport Freeway to a dealership there and started shopping. A nice little lady came out before we even exited the car. I must say I was annoyed almost from the start. She … Continue reading →

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