Wedding (aka Cool Party where we said stuff in the beginning)

Just a quick note to mention how incredibly awesome last Saturday was. I'm a married man and have never been happier.

Custom Resolutions for Remote Desktop

I’ve been using this for a while now, but I’m not sure who else knows you can do this, so…

If you want to specify a special resolution when you run remote desktop, you can do it. For example, if you’re running at 1280x1024 on two monitors, and want to take up both monitors with your remote desktop session, type this into your Run menu or command line, then connect to whatever machine you want. When you maximize it, it will take up both monitors.

mstsc /w:2560 /h:1024

You can also specify the machine, if you like, like this:

mstsc /v:myServerName /w:2560 /h:1024

8 hours to go

Holy cow, 8 hours from now I'll be a married man. Woohoo! I'll post details and pictures later.

SharePoint Terrible Error Messages

I've been staring at this one all day, on and off. It's so nice of Microsoft to give you detailed error messages like this. Grrrrr.

Red-Gate and .Net Reflector

I just noticed that my .NET Reflector says "Red Gate's .NET Reflector" in the title bar, so I went to the red-gate.com site, and sure enough, they must've bought Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector.

Red-Gate tools rock, by the way. They had their SQL compare and schema compare tools well before Microsoft made their own for Team System. They work flawlessly. I won free licenses at a .Net user's group once, and used it to sync between multiple servers. It was awesome, but when SQL progressed from 2000 to 2005, the tools needed to be upgraded and, well, Microsoft had come out with their own tool, which I could get under my MSDN license so I stopped using Red Gate tools, but I'd recommend them to anyone that doesn't have an easy method of comparing schemas and data and doing updates when there are differences. I repeat - they rock!

Here's a note on Lutz Roeder's blog..

Bachelor party

Saturday, I had a bachelor party...and it was gooood. Steph and I were going to have separate bachelor parties, then meet up at the end of the night, but some of our friends couldn't make it, so we decided to merge the parties from the start. We started out at the Grand Prix Raceway and had a blast. Here's the team, well, except for John...where's John? Maybe in the John. ha ha. Left to right: Steve, Tom, Stephanie, Mark, Kayleen, Tere

Then we went to Hooters for dinner. We got some surprise gifts from Tere and Kayleen.

Then the Hooters chick made Steph and I stand up on some stools and she got the entire restaurant's attention and let them know we were about to get married. That was pretty cool. They made us make fools of ourselves for a moment before we could jump down.

We went to The Swiss after that and listened to the KryBoys.

Mark was our designated driver, and he had gotten up at 4am, so by the time we got home, he'd been up 22 hours, but was a pretty good sport. Thanks man!

Also: Steve, Tere, Petra, Erika, Jenny, John, & Kayleen. Thanks for coming! We had a great time!