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The Fast and the Furious – FastForms Issues

This article will deal with usability issues with FastForms. I know I’ve highlighted a couple of critical bugs in recent articles, but this is my list of annoyances I have compiled while working with the tool.

In all fairness, I have expressed all of these to M2M Support and many, if not most, [...]

Just Shut Up and Reboot Already

Resist the temptation.

I’ve always enjoyed Think Geek and all the nerdy goodness for sale on their site. They have all sorts of t-shirts with Geeky messages.

Over the years, I have been directed several times by Made2Manage Support to do just that, to re-boot my SQL Server for various reasons. [...]

Reality Check. Which SQL Server Version are you Using?

I spoke with someone earlier this week who is already using Version 2008 and that started me wondering what versions my readers (both of you lol) are using.

If you’re not using at least 2005, feel free to comment as to why not?

Which SQL Version are you using?

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My First Computer and Gaming History – Tagged

I was tagged again by Brent Ozar in which I am asked about my first computer and favorite games.

The first computers I used were Apple II and and the TRS 80 Color Computer. Gotta love the Tape drive goodness, and I actually used punch cards with the Apple. Yes, I am [...]

My Wordle, because all the cool kids are doing it.

Wordle is a neat application which generates random “word clouds” from text you enter or a URL that you specify such as the one from this blog. The larger the word, the more often it is used.

Anyway, this is the one for my blog:

I think you’ll find SQL, SQL [...]

Things you know now… Tagged.

My friend Brent Ozar, SQL Server Ninja, passed on a tag which asked “what do you wish you knew when you were starting?”

Here are some of the things that immediately came to mind.

Make a manual backup before doing anything to M2M.

Over the years I have been tempted to make small changes to certain [...]

California Dreaming and Shop Floor Data Collection

I’ve had several people message me asking how my trip to California went so I thought I would blog about it. Anyway, I was there for eight days evenly divided between consulting and recreation.

My primary reason for the trip was to implement Shop Floor Data Collection for an affiliate company near Los [...]

Made2Manage turns 6 (6.0 That Is…)

Thanks to one of my loyal readers, Jason Griffith, I found out that Version 6.0 went GA this week through his comment yesterday. I called M2M Support to confirm, which they did, but none of them could tell me the actual date it was released. It’s also not mentioned on their website anywhere. [...]

FastForms is Out of Options.

In a recent post, I mentioned that FastForms date fields should be avoided due to a critical bug.

Well, later in the project I discovered a few bugs with FastForms option boxes (also called radio buttons.) The first bug is relatively minor in that they always have to be oriented vertically, rather than [...]