Preparing for the Next Photography Project

Over this past year, I have considerably retooled my photographic tools repertoire. The goal of this has been to highly improve the quality and ability to take pictures versus where I started at five years ago. First, the hardware has now been rationalized to: Canon EOS 1D Mark IV - The low-light and 48-point auto-focus... Continue Reading →

San Francisco 2011

San Francisco 2011 #72 a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. My pictures are back from my trip to San Francisco and Napa 2011. This journey was the first trip with the 1D Mark IV. Overall, it has proven to be absolutely worth it in every respect. The biggest letdown is the lack of sharpness in... Continue Reading →

Demo Hell – thank you SharePoint 2010

I just built a demo system for presenting Commerce Server 2009 R2 CTP on top of SharePoint 2010 at the Microsoft MVP Summit. The experience was NOT fun, hampered by two major gotchas: SP2010 will not configure unless you are connected to the network. And the domain controller of the domain to which the machine... Continue Reading →

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