Ok, so here’s the first in a series of a home grown implementation of Unit Testing SQL server code.

I’m not talking about using Visual Studio Team Edition for Professionals, like Jeff recommends… but I’ll try to provide a general approach to testing your SQL code, particularly stored procedures (sprocs). Read more »

Ok… I’ve had enough. Uncle Bob nailed it: Why don’t we clean our code? When we see an ugly mass of code that we know is going to cause of problems, our first reaction is “This needs to be cleaned up.” Our second reaction is: “If I touch this code I’ll be spending the next two weeks trying to get it to work again.” We don’t clean code because we are afraid we’ll break it.

I promise to Read more »

From the self-serving, bad memory department… next time you’re running Windows 2000 and iTunes 7.x (or later) starts up with a BLACK canvas and outlined text, you need to go get the GDIPLUS redistributable from Microsoft.

Now, if I can only convince somebody in corporate that DirectX 9 is required for Excel 2003… but, until then, no Cover Flow.

Cheers.