We upgraded Arena yesterday. Our goal was to be done at a reasonable time, but things never go as planned. Our plan was to do a complete re-install of the system to bring it up to Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Arena 2009.1.200 and VMWare ESXi 4.0. The idea behind VMWare is that now…

It is a glorious day. The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and the wind is blowing at about 500 miles per hour. Ah, the desert… But check-in is over for the three big services, and it was a resounding success. All told we checked in 1,174 kids over three services so far this…

We finally got all 12 kiosks finished. Or at-least pretty much finished. A few of them still need fans installed and the sand (weight) is being added next week, but the big rush is done. We have them, they are functional. Everybody is really happy with how everything came out. Our communications department was able…

After 5 and a half months we have finally managed to modify the in-activity timeout of Arena. It seems the ASP Session State timeout is not the only thing that needs to be changed. Lets not even talk about the fact you can change it in 4 different places, each having it’s own distinct value.…

Well we did our first run at checkin on Sunday night at our Seven service. We managed to check in 121 kids with the computers. I believe we only had one family that we had to check in on paper, and we are pretty sure we have already fixed the problem we had with them.…

We got the go ahead last week for the computerized children’s check-in system. We looked around but couldn’t find any kiosk stations that we liked. For the most part they were either essentially a podium on wheels or were all-in-one systems based on PCs instead of Macs. To boot the all-in-ones were pretty pricey. We…

As we move forward with Arena, we are trying to get some volunteers to come in and work on small projects for us. Being that they are volunteers we really don’t want to give them full access to the database, but we also don’t have another machine to setup. So we wiped out Development machine…

Running 3 virtual machines on ESXi, under VMware Fusion on a MacBook Pro?