Posted: July 5th, 2009
By: Tommy Unger
I’ve come across the longest product name I’ve ever seen for a Microsoft Software Product. Ladies and gentlemen, I present:
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server Developer Edition
or, as they say around Redmond: MOCS2SSDE
It’s always been a hobby of mine to keep track of what Microsoft is naming its products. It’s always in such sharp contrast with apple’s naming conventions, “iphone”, “imac”, etc. Microsoft seems to think the more it throws into the name, the more likely people will buy it. Well, I don’t buy it. If only MSFT would just come out with a spreadsheet that looks like this in their annual report:
| Class |
Product |
Revenue |
Profit |
| OS |
Windows Vista Consumer |
1,000 |
500 |
| OS |
Windows Vista Business |
2,500 |
1,200 |
| OS |
Windows Server |
2,500 |
1,500 |
| Office Suite |
Consumer |
2,500 |
1,500 |
| Office Suite |
Business |
12,500 |
6,500 |
| Hardware |
xbox |
11,500 |
-11,500 |
| Games |
Halo, et. al. |
5,500 |
-1,500 |
| Who knows? |
Enterprise Business Server Small Business Professional Platinum Edition |
1,500 |
-111,500 |
As a sometimes shareholder of MSFT, maybe I just don’t dig deeply enough into things. Maybe it’s all out there already. But, if it’s not out there already, this sheet would go a long way to helping me figure out what’s going on in Redmond.
Posted: March 24th, 2009
By: Tommy Unger
I don’t care if this is a nerdy post or if it’s duplicated all over the internet. I just want to put it out there for reference. Here’s the linux/unix/cygwin code for recursively removing subversion directories.
rm -rf `find . -name .svn`
I found the example here, but you can never have too much duplicate content floating around the internet.
Posted: February 25th, 2009
By: Tommy Unger
I’m very surprised at how there appears to be just one lone example/sample showing the use of Google Analytics for a cross-domain, third party website, or e-commerce implementation. Or maybe I’m just a bad googler. My scenario involves hosting content which includes a subscribe or buy now link that takes the user to a third party e-commerce site where the actual order is processed.
Here’s what I found. I searched for “google analytics cross domain” and this came up as the second 
It should be first) link:
google analytics cross domain. Ok, that’s the API, but without knowing a few tricks I couldn’t get it to work.
So then I tried, “google analytics third party”, and once again, Continue reading Google Analytics Sample… »
Posted: February 10th, 2009
By: Tommy Unger
I’ve been developing websites for over 10 years now. Fortunately, my earliest work is safely hidden away. I’m sure it include blink tags and animated gifs. I could probably even put an email directly on the site without getting spammed. From the first “web page” in 1996 it was probably another year before I really made another web page, but I really don’t know. I don’t know if I was hooked yet, but it wouldn’t be long before I was captured by the ease, simplicity and power of publishing on the web. I blame the never finishing part on the ease. So, for the first few years I would just spend most of my time surfing and seeing what was out there. Continue reading A new beginning for… »
