Otherwise bored, I read blogs, and I find stuff like this to amuse me. I applied the Pr0nolizer to www.creighton.edu. Gasp!
Preventing {S-word}ual "Mouth-full-o'-c*ck" Harassment at Creighton
Eager for more, you just have to try these links:
Rory Blyth
Scobliezer
Channel9 Interview questions page.
I think you get it idea. Juvenile? yes! Inane? Yes! Funny? Oh my...
brief outline of the content in the remainder of this book. this should help
First Look at Ado.Net and System Xml V 2.0
Let's get on the bandwagon of page 23 Meme (picked from)
"By buying a NeXT, we could justify my working on my long delayed hypertext project as an experiment in using the NeXT operating system and development environment"
-- From fifth sentence on page 23 of Weaving the web from Tim Berners-Lee
There were a lot of nearest books,so this one seemed appropriate because of this much deserved award (the Press release)
The meme says:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions
(watch how it is spreading on the blogsphere here or here)
[Via Tiago Pascoal's WebLog]
At the moment, I'm utterly enthralled with the music of Jill Sobule. A female version Warren Zevon, sort of. Had McDs for breakfast. Yesterday, our department TSO group (think Total Quality Management and you have the idea) awarded me $20 to spend at Borders. I browsed a few books, but finally snapped up “The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals.“
Breakfast: bad choice. Book: good choice.
This week I've been working on part of an application that allows users to upload files to a web site (I know, I know, makes me nervous too). By design, we have to associate that file with some other relational data, so I starting doing a little bit with transactions. If you done transactions with SQL Server and ADO.NET, you know there's a number of transaction isolation options. Frankly, the MSDN descriptions of these weren't all that helpful. But whilst I was listening to “Mary Kay” and waiting for McDriveThruDude to bring me my McScrewedUpOrder, I cracked the cover and went straight to Ken's discussion of transactions. Lesson Learned? Serializable was a really bad choice for what I was doing. But -- don't worry -- I decided early on not to use SQL Transactions at all.
My point is though that in just three minutes, Ken explained TIL to me better than anybody else ever had. How? He showed both code and the execution of examples. Sweet. My only bitch about this book is that its at least partially an update to his other Guru guides. Why still have those on the shelves if you going to recover and enhance them here. I know why -- its the dirty game publishers play -- but it so irrates me as a consumer.
One other thing, does somebody have a better explanation of when I'd want to use IsolationLevel.Chaos and what exactly SQL Server 2000 does with that?
FWIW and BTW, I've updated my Channel 9 watch list, by the way.