Phil Factor The TSQL of Verticons and Anime Emoticons Well there I was trying to think of an idea for a blog (u_u) when it suddenly occurred to me... 09 January 2007 2 min read
Jesse Liberty Times have changed When I was a kid my dad told me “nope, no TV when I was a boy, crystal radio. We... 02 January 2007 1 min read
Jesse Liberty Next column: the tradeoff between innovation and a constantly changing environment The following message was posted to my web log on O’Reilly… Learning new tech. is fun – However, we have... 02 January 2007 2 min read
Jesse Liberty Free Video on Ajax Self promotion warning I’ve just posted a 15 minute quick video on AJAX technology. Now, to be up front, the... 02 January 2007 1 min read
Phil Factor Old Philip Factor’s Almanac My annual new-year’s present to the SQL Server community is the Philip Factor Almanac of Prophesies for the coming year.... 28 December 2006 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Pro CSS Techniques As a developer, I’ve had to endure my fair share of designers lecturing on the virtues of Cascading Style Sheets... 23 December 2006 4 min read
Damon Armstrong Saving the Telerik RadSplitter/RadPane State Telerik makes UI controls for ASP.NET (and they are getting in Windows Forms controls too apparently) and they’ve done a... 22 December 2006 3 min read
Richard Mitchell The good life It’s amazing just how easy programming is nowadays. For the past 2 years-ish I’ve been working almost exclusively in C#... 11 December 2006 2 min read
Phil Factor Santa’s SLA For reasons too personal to be interesting, Christmas brings out the worst in me. My happiest Christmas was spent covering... 05 December 2006 5 min read
Phil Factor Much ado about Null One of the best ways to test the knowledge of a database programmer is to ask very simple questions. I... 04 December 2006 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Don’t let management architect a solution… I’ve seen many cases where business people and technical people collide. Part of building an effective business requires understanding and... 04 December 2006 1 min read
Jesse Liberty Dictation Software Revisited A number of years ago, I entertained the idea of dictating my articles and or books. Dragon NaturallySpeaking seemed to... 03 December 2006 4 min read
Bart Read A Truly Thread-Safe Event Handler Collection For quite a while after I moved into the world of .NET I was slightly bugged by event registration in... 30 November 2006 10 min read
Jesse Liberty Small technological wonders Obviously, of all the technology that has come along in my lifetime (and there is an awful lot of it)... 27 November 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor The Sayings of Phil Factor “Too many developers run their lives as though there was a celestial ‘Undo’ button.” “The IT Manager’s job is to... 27 November 2006 3 min read
Claire Brooking Code Red: database missing in action! Whoops. You scratch your head and wince as you peer at the screen through closed hands… You just accidentally deleted... 24 November 2006 2 min read
Bart Read OK dude, cut the bull – where *IS* SQL Prompt 3? I’ve recently become conscious of how much I’ve started sounding like the guys over at 3D Realms who are now... 24 November 2006 2 min read
James Moore The Managed Stack Explorer Its always nice as a developer when you find a new tool to make your life easier – understanding what... 23 November 2006 2 min read
Jesse Liberty November 22 some dates simply should not pass without mention. In my life those include november 22 (1963) and september 11 (2001).… 22 November 2006 1 min read
Phil Factor The Right to Advertise When the news broke that Red-Gate had purchased SQLServerCentral, there followed a fascinating, and generally positive debate in one of... 20 November 2006 6 min read
