There is only one rule

Ok....here is my summary of 25 years of software development. Go Small.

Agile, Waterfall, Xtream, functional it does not matter the key to making any software project succeed is going small.  Someone needs to be able to break the project down into parts small enough that you can see the schedule slip.  It is easy to say....go do this.  When the this needs to be able to be done in less than 12 hours and then reported on.  If it is bigger than that and can not be "Done" in 12 hours then it is too big and you need to rethink it.

C# Development / Change Windows 8 Key / DNS name does not exist

I claim to be a developer...I am a hack. I love working with computers and I could spend 24/7 in front of a computer screen to my own detriment. My family knows that I can disapear for hours and days and not even know I was missing. I was recently watching a video on channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/ by Scott Hanselman. This lead me to his blog. His recomendation was to blog more. After thinking about it I thought it would be a good Idea. I am doing this for my own good not for the betterment of humanity. Humanity is screwed up enough it does not need my help. I plan on keeping stupid code stuff in this blog so that when I forget something...which is all the time. I have one place to find it. I will start with this. I was trying to activate windows and I was trying to use my own key.

I kept getting the error "DNS name does not exist" along with some pointless errorcode. (the code probably had a point but I did not need it to google and find the answer.

What I found was that I needed to replace the temp key that got installed with windows 8 and use the key that I purchased.

But did not know how to replace the temp key that windows 8 got installed with when I found this site.

This part being the key.

Run a dos prompt with admin rights. then type:

slmgr.vbs /ipk
(you did not think I would type my own key did you)

That was it. I am starting to develop a new windows * app. This app will track Patient data for a doctor office, pharmacy, hospital. FUN!

Connor gets Baptized.

Connor was baptized by Ben on Saturday July 5th. Pictures will be posted later.

Hawaii is nice!

Sonya and I returned from Hawaii on Monday the 1st of July. We spent 4 days in Kauai and 4 days on Waikiki beach. I just about did not leave Kauai. Here are a few pictures.

Because everyone else is doing it!

So everyone has a blog. Big deal... Ok so now I have one. Lets see how this goes.