Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category

Going to the Worldwide Partner Conference?

If you're going to the WWPC in Houston next month, drop me a note.  mitch at infinite-x dot net.
I'll be there all week so maybe we can meet up in the CRM Community Lounge.
Hopefully, my schedule will not be nearly as hectic as it was at Convergence.

More humor from web developers

Seen while canceling a web-based time sheet account that I was using for a test:

Blog upgrade complete

Morning Folks,
Well, after roughly two and one-half years, I've finally completed the first major update to my blog.
I changed the theme to make it more current and to brighten it up a bit.
I updated the blog engine to the current stable version of WordPress to capture some of the newer capabilities that have been added.
Finally, […]

Excellent warning message of the day

Love those WordPress guys and their sense of humor:

Blog update this weekend

Greetings Everyone,
I'm going to spend some quality time this weekend updating my blog to the newest WordPress engine, changing the theme, etc.
So, if you hit the site during this period you may experience strange visual results and the RSS feeds may contain test posts as I verify I've moved my modifications over to the new […]

Error message of the day

I hit this while attempting to visit a link at www.codeproject.com.
 

I just love developers with a sense of humor. Makes the day go by faster.
Have a great weekend.
Mitch

Two Tales of Customer Service

I hate to actually admit it, but sometimes my company's customer service falls a bit short of what it should be. No excuses, it just sometimes does.  This week I was again reminded of the value and need to service your customers at the bare minimum, the way they expect, and if possible, to exceed […]

Random thought of the day: Failure

Last night I was recuperating from a very late and very long business meeting by browsing through the Discovery/Science Channel/History Channel loop I have set as my favorites on my DVR when I ran across a short program on Robert H. Goddard, the father of rocketry.
I find his story fascinating because he actually conceived of the idea […]

On my bookshelf this morning…

I noticed this:

Circa 1987.
Ah, those were the days….

Birthdays in CRM: Revisited

Last year Phil Richardson and Ben Vollmer both posted solutions that would enable us to better track birthdays within CRM.  In May of 2007, the solution was added to the CRM How To series.
To review the situation we find that while Microsoft provided us with a Birthday Attribute on the Contact Entity it's really hard […]