Author Archives: Justin Deltener

About Justin Deltener

It's paramount to remain humble and to truly thank those that help make the system work. This is especially true if you have a fancy title. Every person is important otherwise they wouldn't be there. Every person has something to teach. Never stop listening.

VMWare Fault Tolerance supports only one core

VMWare Fault Tolerance is a pretty sweet technology…if only you could run it on more than your image server.

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VMWare vSphere vs Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization

A few features parallel these virtualization offerings, but if you’re looking for someone to partner with for the Enterprise space, it seems a no brainer to me.

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Unable to download Excel or other file over SSL under IE8

Ever since IE8 hit the streets I’ve been having a horrifically nagging issue where all our files that normally download over HTTPS no longer work. They download correctly under FireFox or Google Chrome, but not under Internet Explorer 8. I’ve … Continue reading

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Google Mini Appliance Review and Integration Tutorial

It’s inevitable. That home-brew, built-from-scratch search engine code will start to show its age sooner or later. After many years and a good run my search code was starting to show its age. I did a SQL Profiler trace on … Continue reading

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VMWare Bridged Networking Not Working DHCP

Ok so here’s the low-down. I got a new Vostro lappy for work and I was really hoping that it would be easy to get all my crap ported over to it. I was a little leary about how well … Continue reading

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Using the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Method for higher quality communication

This article describes an activity to really get yourself and others to increase their level of communication detail.

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Maintaining Caller Context When Using Javascript Class Instance Member Functions As AJAX Event Handlers

One would think that it would be pretty trivial to set an AJAX Event Handler to be a Javascript class member function … yeah not so much. Just one more reason why Javascript seems more and more left field to … Continue reading

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Why .Net / MS open source projects really don’t exist

Here is a short little blurb on why everyone and their grandmother uses LAMP/RAILS open source products and comparatively there are very few .Net projects in existence.

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Using PHP5 Base Class Static Member Variables to encapsulate Presentation Layer Dependencies

This post covers how to utilize static member variables to keep track of your presentation layer CSS/JS dependencies.

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PHP5 before 5.2.x and Debian Distro of FreeTDS causing Unparsable date strings

I finally nailed down a really odd date/time issue between PHP5 and FreeTDS.

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