Archive for May, 2008



New Project: Crystal Reports

May 28th, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Stature Projects | Comments Off

Joe Patalano has helped a former boss every now and then on a Crystal Report project at the boss’ new company.  We were pleased to increase our role on this project and have one of our developers spend some time to enhance the report and architecture.

It’s not a huge project but keeps Stature in the loop of a successful, nationally-recognized restaurant chain.

Could be the start of something good.  Thanks Ken!

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New Client: Medical Startup

May 21st, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Stature Projects | No Comments »

Stature has been selected to write a new application for a medical startup, and we’re very excited about the opportunity. 

Thanks Chad & David!

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Windows Update Crashes Outlook

May 15th, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Technology | No Comments »

Just a stupid observation here.

Whenever Windows Update automatically reboots my computer overnight, the next morning Outlook complains that my PST file was improperly closed and needs to be checked for errors.  And of course when you’re dealing with a 2GB PST file, it’s not a quick process.

I just find it amazing that the Windows Update team didn’t think to properly close Outlook, or, I dunno, say any other flagship Microsoft product.  It’s just odd.

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New Project: ASP.NET with MySQL Rewrite

May 1st, 2008 by Gregory Silvano Posted in Stature Projects | Comments Off

We’re starting a small project this week with a financial company in New York City.  They had an internal developer who left a project unfinished, so we’re going to take the project and get it into production.

The web code is in ASP.NET but the developer used MySQL for the database instead of Microsoft SQL Server.  Not sure why that was (he was probably just more familiar with it) but since everything else at the company is already Microsoft based (including other databases) we’re going to take the opportunity to migrate the MySQL database to SQL Server, mostly as-is.  I’d rather keep them on a consistent platform than have their internal developer deal with both MySQL and SQL Server every day.

We’re very excited about working with this new client.  They have a great attitude and very realistic expectations

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