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As I am waiting for Reflector to load and my browser to unfreeze, I thought maybe if I write down all the things that cause me friction when attempting to be productive, I may just feel a little less frustrated by it all.

So here it goes:

1. Lotus Notes takes up to 20 seconds to redraw itself when returning from my VM
2. SameTime can also take this long
3. SharePoint Development Requirements - Lots of RAM and Windows Server OS
4. SharePoint GAC Deployment - Recycling of App Pools gets old
5. Getting distracted writing this blog post after Reflector finished loading 5 minutes ago
6. Visual Studio Add Reference Dialog (can’t wait to get my whole team over to VS 2010 to cross this one off the list)
7. Misleading WCF Add Service Reference Error Messages
8. Did I mention Lotus Notes
9. Web Meetings and Teleconferencing
10. Two-factor authentication with a 5 minute timeout (Explanation: I am working for a defense contractor)

On the other hand, there are certain things that just plain allow me to be productive:

1. My Wife Sarah
2. GMail
3. Google Reader
4. Google Chat
5. Visual Studio Intellisense
6. FireBug
7. Notepad++
8. My Colleague Winston’s MindTree application
9. Pencil and Paper (not the name of some app, I mean physical pencil and paper)
10. Whiteboards

So what is causing you friction?

I have been hosting trentacular out of my house up until this past weekend. While having complete control over the server was nice, I decided it was not worth having to worry about downtime, ISP reliability, etc. So DreamHost won my business with their Independence Day special: a year of hosting (unlimited storage/bandwidth) and a domain renewal for just $9.24. Yes, that is for the whole year!

If you experience any issues such as slowness or unavailablility, please let me know (which I realize might be difficult to do if the site is down ).

Welcome to trentacular. This marks the beginning of my techinical blog. I have been previously blogging here (my personal blog), and the time has arrived to separate the technical related posts from my personal posts. I hope this blog proves interesting and helpful to you, and please don’t be a stranger … leave a comment.