One programmer's journey on the path
04. December 2007
I’m not sure if I’ll ever run VISTA in this decade… I haven’t even played with the beta’s… I recommend to friends and family to keep their Windows XP disk around.
Why? There are so many reasons, but maybe one of the biggies might be coming to an end…
09. November 2007
These are exciting times and another idea turned gold is Jungle Disk. A cross-platform Amazon S3 interface for remote storage. They setup a WebDAV service on your machine that runs their bits to encrypt and transmit your files up to Amazon’s S3 service.
Never heard of S3? Neither had I
31. October 2007
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).
30. October 2007
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
30. October 2007
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