Hangovers are easily avoided if you don't drink (duh) or if you take a big
dose of vitamin B-12 and a large drink of water before going to sleep. I'm
paying for not doing any of those this morning. Still, it was well worth it.
If you still don't believe me that Microsoft really does listen to us in
Blogspace, I've gotten two comments back from KC about Outlook and Exchange --
topics that I hardly ever post much about. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
In my last post, I listed two books I felt like buying last night. I felt
like getting copy of "The
Pragmatic Programmer" today, too.
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Category |
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Comments |
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Accumulated links |
Blogging |
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Follow the PowerPoint link. |
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Enjoy Every Sandwich |
Blogging |
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*Blush* |
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The Daily Grind 299 |
Blogging |
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Lots of good links here. Mike does a good job finding
some really interesting stuff. |
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Auto-Updating Cache Entries |
Dev |
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It's a nice idea, let's hope it takes off. |
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ContextMenu - code complete! |
Dev |
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Now that's slick and I like the usability of it. |
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If you could do it over again... |
Dev |
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I recommend using virtual servers, myself. |
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Integrating WinForms with VB6 |
Dev |
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Pushing a Water Mellon through a Garden Hose works too. |
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My Kind of Warranty |
Dev |
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I like it too. |
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Ngen should be the default |
Dev |
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In practice yes, in theory no. I like the idea of being
able to have my bits run anywhere. Same reason I don't like the idea of a linker
too much either. |
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Chronicle 1 - "The Journey Begins" |
Rants |
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One, you have to start somewhere and two, it's never to
early to expose kids to anything, I think. |
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How To Ace An Interview Part I (by: aegix) |
Rants |
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There's a gem in this: "The rule of interviewing is
to take your time answering questions. You usually don't get dinged for pausing
a moment to reflect on a question and thinking of a good answer." |
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Life, Marriage, and Illness |
Rants |
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"You should be free to define the relationships in
ways that make you comfortable, not in ways that make the state or crabby old
people comfortable." Well said. |
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Windows XP and ClearType |
Rants |
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I use ClearType everywhere, actually, so I found this to
be a neat trick. |
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Accessing a Report Server Using a URL POST Request |
RS |
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It's a great article and is worthy of praise for
demonstrating the right way to do this (via POST) and than the insecure way
(GET.) |
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Hands-On Lab: SQL Server Reporting Services |
RS |
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Two good RS links in one. |
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Joe Celko on representing trees in SQL using the nested set model |
SQL |
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It is an interesting approach to the problem. |
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New SQL Server Freeware Tool - TOAD for SQL Server |
SQL |
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TOAD was a complete life safer for me when working with
PeopleSoft on Oracle, so its nice to see this port. |
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Optimizing Database Queries |
SQL |
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Pretty good discussion here. Yukon's query analyzer has
even more showplan features. |
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Cooking with the Klingons: Antarian Glow Water |
WTF? |
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Gagh made with Udon? What's next, Prune juice
Spritzers? |
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Fun Fact Of The Day |
WTF? |
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So long as they don't own
Scooters, I'm fine with that. |
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Intranets take second place to public internet |
WTF? |
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Intranets should only be expected to provide
business-specific applications of knowledge at best. More generalized content
really does belong on a world-facing site. |
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The Gay2K Bug |
WFT? |
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Yes, making assumptions leads to having to potentially
rework things. Not making some assumptions like pairing leads to a slippery
slope of programming complexity. Good point about sanity tests. |
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The government is not trustworthy for people's privacy? |
WFT? |
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So, we trust the folks who take the most from us and
trust our guardians the least? How F'ed is that? |
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Yukon Quest Has Started! |
WTF? |
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Heh, I got tricked into this one. |
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ASP.NET Precompilation in Whidbey |
WILY |
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Yes, its an excellent feature. That said, it would be
nice to all the tricks that folks are doing with NGEN be re-applied here. |
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Indigo Migration Questions Answered! |
WILY |
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Well, I wonder if trying it out for yourself and making
some of your own decision isn't part of the reason they gave us the bits this
early. :) |
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Longhorn's leaky sidebar |
WILY |
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It is a pre-alpha software, after all. |
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WinFS discussion |
WILY |
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I think the point is to be able to "put" on thing into
every "folder" where you think its appropriate. Or am I missing something yet
again? |
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Authors Posting Reviews: Tsk, Tsk, Tsk |
Writing |
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Sad, yes, but what's even worse is when an author (ab)uses
Amazon to send you 10% coupons for their just released works. GEESH. |
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Davisor Offisor 1.5.1 |
XML |
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As opposed to File|Save As|Xml..., right? |
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Developing a seminar, |
XML |
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I can't help him, but maybe you can. |
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Warriors of Streaming XPath Order |
XML |
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More on XSEReader. This is a pretty interesting thread
to watch, I think. |
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Xen - Wow |
XML |
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Precisely why Xen is NOT the next C#. GEESH! |