Where is that SQL Management Studio?

Have you have Installed SQL Server Express Edition only to discover that SQL Management Studio did not get installed with it? Or when you try to install it you can’t find it in the options?

Well, for some reason, if an application such as Visual Web Developer Express, which installs a minimum install of SQL Express, is installed first those settings are used for all subsequent installs of SQL Express on the OS and since SQL Management Studio was not an option for the first install it won’t be permitted for any of the latter.

The solution is to install SQL Server Express Edition first, before any other software is installed.

Should you find yourself in this predicament you may need to wipe the machine and reinstall everything again. Fun.

Poor Mouse

Grr. It looks looks like my mouse is starting to wear out, the left click is beginning to not respond. This mouse has served me well for about three years and though it has visible signs of wear it will be sad should it die.

So it might be about time to look into buying a new one.  The Microsoft Bluetooth notebook mouse 5000 looks interesting. But I should do some shopping around to see what I can find. And wait to see if I can get a job soon…

Deseret Translator Prototype

With Windows 7 being released, which along with the latest in Apples OSs, can display Deseret characters I thought I would have a little fun with it and see if I could make a Latin alphabet English to Deseret alphabet English translator. I made it as far as being able to replace all of the consonants preserving capitalization and a handful of token combinations before I realized the huge problem would be in trying to figure out how to translate the vowels. If it weren't for all of the exceptions to rules in Latin alphabet English it might be a bit of a simple task.

I had thought it might be a fun and simple project to put up, but it looks like it will take some extra thought and work before it is ready. At least it sort of works.

Intentional Software

Woah! This is a fascinating video! (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/oslo/dd727740.aspx) A few years ago I wished that .net code could be saved in some intermediary language which could be swapped between syntaxes on the fly. This looks like my dream come true! Woo hoo!