Scott Elkin

Author: Scott

  • Bruce Leeroy

    Sweet. As an aside, it was a bit of a pain to be able to insert this in my blog post. Do be able to do so, add the following to the markup/html node in communityserver.config: <object width = “true” height = “true”/> <param name = “true” value = “true”/> <embed src = “true” type…

  • Using Case in Order By with Group By

    Wow, that’s a mouthful. This is what I am trying to convey: When you do a Group By with Rollup, what happens is that the rolled up column shows null, and won’t necessarily be ordered at the bottom. For example: select firstname , count(*) as total from AdsEntered ads join tblStaff s on s.staffid =…

  • Why the PS3 Will Suck

    If you know me, you know I am a big Xbox 360 fan.  Heck, I have a whole category devoted to my 360 diatribes.  But the funny thing is I don’t want the PS3 to suck, although it is going to. Here’s the deal:  Sony screwed up big time and got out-maneuvered by Microsoft.  And…

  • .Text to Community Server 2.0

    I made the leap and upgraded my blog to Community Server (CS) 2.0.  It took about 4 hours researching, downloading, uploading, converting and fixing.  I couldn’t find a way to directly upgrade my .Text Version .95 directly to CS 2.0, so I decided to first upgrade from .95 to CS 1.1, then use the standard upgrade…

  • Valentines Day

    p>I’d say we had a pretty unique Valentine’s Day: First I gave her my gifts: Put the wedding CD I created on her iPod Nano and changed the Artist to the wedding day, the album to “Scott Loves Samantha”, and changed each song album cover to a picture of us. Compiled another wedding CD from…

  • My Quest for Bicerin

    On Friday night, I speedily made my way through my TiVo’d Torino Olympic Ceremonies.  Most of the 3–some hour marathon was pointless and boring, but one 2 minute segment caught my eye. It was about a quaint cafe that sits across from a church, called “Al Bicerin” . It is famous for it’s drink, Bicerin…

  • Overheard at the Office

    I am sorry, but I find this hilarious. Read at your own peril :): Steve says: Dude Tom says: Dude Steve says: I forgot to tell you… Steve says: gots a zit right under my eyelid Tom says: HOLY COW Steve says: yup Tom says: under it? Tom says: like facing your eyeball? Steve says:…

  • Remembering Regsvr32

    I just tried to open Sauce Reader, my blog reader of choice, but all it gave me was an error and an option to close.  After digging through the error message, I found the message, “Class not registered”. Ok, easy enough.  I opened a command prompt and started to register each dll in the Sauce…

  • Emulating Digg Spy using AJAX.NET

    In my latest project, I need to build a lead system for our sales people. It will work very similarly to the digg.com/spy application, so I took advantage of their model in order to learn AJAX.NET. I decided to go with AJAX.NET, rather than the new Anthem, just to get my feet wet. I will…

  • Jeffrey Richter’s new book: CLR via C#

    By far my favorite technical author is Jeffrey Richter.  The combination of clarity, depth and slight humor is simply unrivalled in the computer industry. Several times I have done searches trying to find out when he would have a new book coming out. I have read his Applied .NET Framework cover to cover, and almost cover…