In the 'Note to Self' Category... So for all my non-technical friends – this is so I can remember it for later… nothing to see here (especially if geek babble bothers you. ;-) ) While researching some performance issues for a customer, I found this particular forgotten gem on the MSDN site: Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability (from the 2004 timeframe) [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998530.aspx] It’s probably a bit out of date now, but the sections on improving SQL performance & Measuring, Testing  & Tuning still seemed like they had a lot of good base knowledge in them…

This last week was a flurry of events captured in pictures – mostly related to me going to a couple of parties with friends. 

I also managed to get some of my backlog of pictures uploaded too…

Some of the Pictures after the Break...

…but they were spam – they only made it as far as my comment approval queue – but still… What I’m trying to figure out is how they got there past the CAPTCHA – I guess somebody has figured out a way around reCAPTCHA’s algorithm… or there is some backdoor into my site that I’m unaware of. Time to check the updates…

Just a minor note…. After I spent the entire day at HCRR, running trains and cooking out, We visited for a while at Randy & Karen’s place, had some good food and watched a bit of a show – I’m glad their house isn’t too far away from mine – because by the time I got home, it was all I could do to find the bed and collapse into it.  Loooong day.

I didn’t take any pictures at the Railroad – but I did get a few of the show…

photos: Craig Tucker; view this slideshow on Flickr

I was literally down to hours before the Beta copy of Win7 that I’ve been running on my primary home machine was about to expire – I did my backup and decided to go for it. 

Originally, I was under the impression that I couldn’t make the upgrade without having to re-install everything but after doing a little searching around, found that it is indeed possible – with a little bit of file manipulation – to do the upgrade from Beta to RC – and it’s even (somewhat tangentially) approved by Microsoft. 

SO, Kudos to the Win7 development team – it appears to have worked very well… of course, time will tell.

When RTM comes out, though, I will be doing a clean install then – good excuse to buy a new, bigger, hard drive.