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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Back in early June, I attended the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here Launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. I was so excited about attending the event because of SQL Server 2008. Let me tell you, the scope of enhancements that have been ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Recently, was charged with the not so awesome task ofwriting an interface for a planning group to use to relate budget performancemeasures with a separate more detailed model that breaks the measures into coreservices. Nonetheless, sounds simple andit is. The only thing that makes thisworth bringing up is ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
So, the other day, our blackberry guru dropped by my desk to offer me the CDMA beta for Blackberry OS 4.5.0.33. Well, After being so happy with features like docs-to-go and HTML email, I thought I'd try and find some links where you can download the Beta OS. ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
A few days ago, I introduced a SQL user-defined function for stripping alphabetical characters from a varchar. Today I'd like to throw a little something something out there for stripping all non alpha-numeric characters from a varchar. Now, you may be wondering when you would use something like ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
A former co-worker of mine and good friend Jeff Sargent posted a very useful article about creating a month dropdownlist in ASP.Net using C#. Rather than copy/paste, here is an excerpt from the article and a link to the full post.
I’m a fan of having a utility class in ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
After upgrading to FireFox 3.0 I went went ahead and installed the standard add-ons for a guy in my line of work like Web Developer toolbar and FireBug. But, could I possibly be writing a blog post about such old news? Of course not. Let me introduce you ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
For anyone who has ever had to do funky things in SQL, you’ll probably appreciate this post. However, you may have already written something similar before. Oh well, I’m bored at the moment and feel like sharing this little user-defined-function (UDF) that makes use of the PATINDEX() function ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
The other day I found myself needing to write a quick application to start and stop services on my desktop since I didn’t need them all running all the time. Specifically, I have a copy of the SQL Server 2008 CTP that I’m fooling around with and it is ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
What is an Interface? An interface is a encapsulator, for lack of a better term (Its 2:30 am). It contains the signatures of methods, events or delegates. The best way for me explain a good use for an interface is through example.
Say, you have a superclass that describes your object. ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
After a few months, I thought, "hey, I might as well dust off this blog thing and write something." So, to that extent, I picked up a Blackberry 8830 a couple weeks ago. I picked up the Blackberry Enterprise Server plan to go along with it so I ...
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A professional software developer on the .Net and LAMP platforms.
I enjoy walks on the beach, SQL Server, video games, and college sports.