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• Conchango blogging on the upturn

  An email from Paul Dawson went around one of Conchango's internal distribution lists a few weeks ago with a call to action for people to contribute more to our blog site. Apparently our tag cloud wasn't fully representative of the things that we are good Read More... Posted 15 March 2008 04:04 by jamie.thomson | 8 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Conchango

• Will blogging tools become more than blogging tools?

  I am currently writing this blog entry on a flight somewhere over the USA using Windows Live Writer as my offline blogging tool. Anyone that has used it will tell you what a great tool it is for doing this. Currently Live Writer allows rich offline editing Read More... Posted 29 July 2007 17:07 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Windows Live, Writer

• SSIS: Keep a scratch project

  Here's a little tip for you that I've found incredibly useful over the past few months - something that I suspect a lot of you do already. When I'm involved in a project on which I am implementing SSIS packages I like to keep all packages Read More... Posted 03 July 2007 05:11 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server Integration Services, Inane Waffle, SSIS

• Blog stats

  I've been blogging on this site for just over 2 and a half years now and thought now would be a good time to check out some of my blog stats and so I'm blogging about them here in case anyone is interested, and so that I can look back in the future Read More... Posted 26 June 2007 20:55 by jamie.thomson | 8 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle

• Popfly: Now with added cowbell!

  breaking news. The Popfly team have made a new release. Check out the most important new feature, more cowbell: http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!219.entry !!! If you don't understand the cowbell reference, go and search Read More... Posted 14 June 2007 23:55 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Popfly, Cowbell

• Flickr Uploader

  I use Flickr alot to host all of my digital photos but I tend to have a hard time uploading them all, for some reason the Flickr Uploader can be a bit tempremental, particularly for large files. Thankfully Flickr also allow you to upload emails by emailing Read More... Posted 25 February 2007 19:19 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Microsoft, Flickr

• 'Copy Path' in Vista

  A few months ago I wrote a short post about a cool little powertoy that enables you to copy the path of a file into your clipboard: Well as Josh Twist has pointed out this functionality is now built-in as standard to Vista (well it is in Vista Ultimate Read More... Posted 21 February 2007 03:37 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Vista, Windows Platform

• Windows Live: Where to go next?

  Over the past few months I've really begun to get interested in the various Windows Live offerings that are coming out of Microsoft at the moment. I have Live.com as my homepage, I use Live Maps exclusively, and these in turn cause me to generally Read More... Posted 06 January 2007 18:50 by jamie.thomson | 2 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Windows Live, Microsoft, Sitecore

• Horne enters the fray

  Many a time on this blog I have pointed to other Conchango bloggers and recommended them as worthy of your time. Perhaps I shouldn't do it. Perhaps my determination to promote Conchango as a group of forward-thinking individuals clouds my judgement Read More... Posted 05 December 2006 03:15 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle

• 'Copy Path' on context menu

  A few months ago a colleague of mine, Darren Green , was doodling around on his desktop (as he is wont to do) and showed me a cool little powertoy that he'd built. Its very simple. It puts an option on the context menu called 'Copy Path' that Read More... Posted 22 November 2006 19:50 by jamie.thomson | 5 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle Attachment(s): CopyPathExt.zip

• WIX Intellisense

  If you're using WIX then you probably already know this but if you don't it won't hurt for me to repeat it here. If you want to get Intellisense in Visual Studio when editing WIX .wxs files, then read Justin Rockwood's instructions here Read More... Posted 08 October 2006 07:50 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle

• OLE DB: Cannot connect using Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle

  I've had a nasty little problem today and thought it was worth sharing. I've been trying to use the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle to connect to some Oracle databases but it was failing with the error: "Test connection failed because Read More... Posted 19 September 2006 23:24 by jamie.thomson | 5 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Oracle

• Leave Home

  This post isn't strictly the sort of thing we're supposed to put on our blogs here at Conchango but hopefully the powers that be will indulge me for a bit. My big news that I've been waiting to unveil for quite a while now until it was all Read More... Posted 17 September 2006 10:33 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle

• Data Architect required in California

  Apologies if you have already read this on Christian's blog ! Conchango are about to begin a major project in California - it is actually a continuation of some work that I have recently been involved with in Aberdeen, Scotland. One small problem we are Read More... Posted 20 June 2006 09:14 by jamie.thomson | 0 Comments Filed under: Inane Waffle, Conchango

• Microsoft Connect - the new incarnation of the MSDN Feedback Center

  It appears as though Microsoft have replaced their MSDN Feedback Center with a new site called Microsoft Connect . Everything that I ever submitted to the MSDN Feedback Center has been migrated across which is very good news. Read an intro about Microsoft Read More... Posted 13 June 2006 10:25 by jamie.thomson | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005, Inane Waffle