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Thursday
Jun182015

Solution Maniacs Achieves Small Vendor Status On SAM.gov

Solution Maniacs, LLC, an Information Technology business offering performance testing, functional automation, and tool selection services, proudly announced today it is registered as a small business vendor on the Federal United States Government System for Award Management (SAM) database.

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Friday
Mar292013

Microsoft Developer Day - March 20, 2013

On March 20, 2013, I went to a Microsoft Developer Day event in Tallahassee, FL. This session featured Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012 and Azure. With fewer than 50 attendees, we were able to have engaging conversations and the speakers were able to address everyone's concerns.

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Thursday
Mar282013

Orlando .NET Code Camp 2013

With over 750 registered attendees, 12 tracks and 7 time slots, there were many choices on what topics to attend at the Orlando .NET Code Camp on March 16, 2013.

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Wednesday
Mar272013

SQL Saturday #192

I attended SQL Saturday #192 on March 2, 2013 in Tampa, FL. This year's event was moved to HCC (Hillsborough Community College) because the previous location was too small for the ever-growing number of attendees. This new venue also allows for future expansion.

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Wednesday
Feb272013

SQUID - Change Log

SQUID change log

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Sunday
Nov252012

C - Remove/Replace Characters in a String

When I needed to remove/replace characters in a string, I posted a question here on stackoverflow.

I have used the strstr function in a loop, but was looking for a simpler solution. A C implementation equivalent to the C# String.Replace method might work.

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Monday
Oct222012

StarWest - Testing & Quality Leadership Summit

Of all the sessions at the StarWest 2012 conference, the Testing & Quality Leadership Summit is my favorite.  It is an all-day bonus session with scheduled talks, networking exercises, and lunch intertwined.  The theme for this leadership summit was, As a Leader, What is Keeping You Up at Night?  For the purpose of this blog, I separated the summit activities into four groups.

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Thursday
Oct112012

StarWest - Randy Rice

At StarWest 2012, I had the honor of meeting Randy Rice. His half-day tutorial, "Free and Cheap Test Tools,” was awesome, to say the least. He discussed a large variety of free and valuable tools—most unfamiliar to consultants. He also presented an in-depth demo of soapUI and gave important insights.

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Wednesday
Oct102012

StarWest - Dorothy Graham

I enjoyed meeting Dorothy Graham at StarWest...I'm a big fan...and highly recommend her full-day tutorial entitled, “Managing Successful Test Automation.” I was impressed with her ability to keep things simple and easy to digest.

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Monday
Sep242012

Windows - Snipping Tool

Updated on Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 6:05PM by Registered CommenterEdward Leno

Many screen capture utilities are available: some free and some not. I chose to investigate Windows Snipping Tool and Print Screen because I did not want to pay for or install any additional software. A description of these free options follows below.

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