With the first few games of the NCAA tourney coming up fast, I wanted to address some of the hard feelings from the creation of the tournament field. If you missed the selection round, you can review the picks and the seedings here. Note that despite...
This month’s Geek Challenge was created in conjunction with Kevin Ferrigno. The challenge is to pick the winners of this year’s NCAA tournament, not by choosing teams, but by picking the winning formula. You can use this spreadsheet to pr...
Every year, DMC celebrates our holiday party sometime after the holidays and this year we took to the lanes at Lucky Strike. It was a great setting to socialize and, of course, enjoy some friendly competition. We even held a special bowling-themed Ge...
On February 29th, DMC celebrated Leap Day with a little friendly competition. With some tape on the floor, I set up an event court for a Standing Long Jump competition. Standing Long Jump was an Olympic event until from 1900-1912, and I r...
Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.
Eric West, Systems Engineer What do you like best about working at DMC? I like a lot of things. I enjoy working with a group of people who have a good sense of humor and fun in addition to being great at their work. I can count on them to suppo...
With the final few plays of the super bowl still fresh in mind, we enter March on the verge of another of the greatest events in sports, the March Madness of Programming Languages. This epic, world-renowned event (not to be confused with the sim...
Background DMC has often had to download a high number of values from a SQL server to an OPC server. In the past, this had usually been done with VBA code that was called from an Iconics HMI screen. The code looped through about 600 tags in less t...
The Unified Logging System (ULS) logs are one of the developer's and administrator's best friends when troubleshooting SharePoint. But as anyone who has ever browsed through ULS logs can attest, their readability leaves something to be desire...
We have a lot of fun working in the DMC office - often if you're not laughing, it's because everyone else is laughing at you, not with you. As a New Year's Resolution this year I decided to grow a beard. It looked terrible. I beca...