Archive for July, 2006

Back from Bandon Dunes

Friday, July 14th, 2006

After a weekend of golfing at Bandon Dunes it is back to the reality of work for me. But, the trip will be one this is not soon forgotten.
The drive down to Bandon Dunes is not for the weak. It took me 7.5 hours to get down there and that included only two stops along [...]

Avanade Wins “Best Companies to Work For” Honor

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

The results are out from the Washington CEO Magazine’s survey for the best companies to work for in Washington and Avanade ranked #4 in the large companies category. The initial list of companies started out at 105 then was widdled down to the top 60. So, this is a pretty neat thing for the top [...]

Getting Vista on My Virtual Machine

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

As a part of testing the internal apps for Microsoft, we have to test them against all of the upcoming versions of their OS and Office. So, this means that I need to create an environment that contains Vista and Office 12. The concept isn’t all that strange, it really makes great sense. The company [...]