Author Archives: Doug Porter

Hotels Switching to Biometric Room Keys

Posted on November 9, 2005 by Doug Porter

In another assault on personal privacy, I just read about a plan to move towards using biometric identifiers for hotel room access over standard room keys. Read Hotel Card Keys Edge Toward Extinction. I had never thought much about biometric … Continue reading →

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Kathy Sierra Speaks the Truth (As Usual)

Posted on November 8, 2005 by Doug Porter

Over at the Creating Passionate Users blog, Kathy Sierra (one of the masterminds behind the wonderful Head First series of books) has a fantastic post that every working Joe should read. It is When clients (and bosses) go bad…. It … Continue reading →

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New Home for The Porter Method

Posted on November 7, 2005 by Doug Porter

Well I finally bit the bullet and decided to get some hosting space and break free from the chains of Blogger. The new home for this blog will now be located here: The Porter Method Blog. Please update your links … Continue reading →

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Alabama .Net Code Camp 2005 Recap

Posted on November 1, 2005 by Doug Porter

First of all here is a link where you can download a zip file of my presentation. Introduction to Creating Installation Packages with Microsoft’s Windows Installer XML (WiX) Toolset To run the examples, you should download the latest binary version … Continue reading →

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Free Commercial Databases as Far as the Eye Can See

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Doug Porter

Looks like with Oracle’s recent announcement all of the big names in the commercial database market have free versions that can be used in production environments. There is Sybase ASE Express Edition for Linux, Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, … Continue reading →

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