Jose C Gomez on December 26th, 2009

This morning when I woke up Facebook suggested I upgrade my browser to IE 8, or Chrome or Firefox. The funny thing is that I was running the latest version of Chrome at that time. I tried opening IE 8 and Firefox and on both it gave me the same suggestion. Facebook I believe you had [...]

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Jose C Gomez on July 8th, 2009

On July 7 google posted the following on their official blog.
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or [...]

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Jose C Gomez on June 8th, 2009

So I installed Windows 7 as my main OS at work a few days ago just to play around in a “Production Environment” and this morning I ran into the strangest, yet most useful feature yet. Apparently in an Aero enabled PC with Windows 7 if you grab and shake your foreground window it will [...]

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Jose C Gomez on March 26th, 2009

This may make me sound like I am antiquated and behind the times, and in this aspect you are probably right. Since I started messing with programming quite a few years ago, I’ve tried to make the programs I write as user friendly and as easy to maintain as possible. Recently I have adopted a few [...]

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Jose C Gomez on March 3rd, 2009

I really haven’t had much time to update lately. I am busy with work and the wedding plans and somehow this keeps getting pushed aside. I will try to make more time to update. I got several topics I’d like to cover, things I’ve ran across and I think deserve some attention. But right now [...]

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Jose C Gomez on January 19th, 2009

I am now officially engaged to my beautiful bride Annie, I am lucky to have her and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with her. She is the best thing that ever happened to me and I pray that God will bless out marriage.

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Jose C Gomez on December 30th, 2008

The FBI Issued the following challenge yesterday.
CAN YOU CRACK A CODE?
Try Your Hand at Cryptanalysis 12/29/08
Last year, we challenged you to crack a code created by the “crypt analysts” in our FBI Laboratory, who are experts in breaking ciphers of all kinds.
Tens of thousands of you did so. [...]

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Jose C Gomez on December 22nd, 2008

I am currently working with an ERP System into which we need to integrate several different processes. This is normally accomplished by using common integration tools like SSIS and Service Connect; but many of these require you to skip the logic of the system and just write directly to the database. This is not only [...]

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