Well, after a 3 week vacation from blogging, I’m back.  The past month has been very busy for me, but its time I get back on track. So I had somebody send me some code that they were having problems with.  They were trying to use T-SQL to read a value from the local registry.  When I saw that the code was about 70 lines long, I...

I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy.  Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week.  So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed them the first time around. Coupling, Abstractness,...

I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy.  Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week.  So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed them the first time around. Coupling, Abstractness,...

This is too cool. The Guitar Shred Show.  If you’re an amatuer, or think you’re a pro, check this out.  Once you get in, check out the Mountain of the Tapping Dwarfs – Lesson and Jam.  There are almost 40 licks, all with tabs, demonstrating different techniques, and a shockwave of some dude playing them with...

This is too cool. The Guitar Shred Show.  If you’re an amatuer, or think you’re a pro, check this out.  Once you get in, check out the Mountain of the Tapping Dwarfs – Lesson and Jam.  There are almost 40 licks, all with tabs, demonstrating different techniques, and a shockwave of some dude playing them with...

I had this oddly named file in My Documents, and opened it up to see what it was.  Turned out to be a whitepaper I had downloaded years ago on Transaction Cost Analysis – Capacity Model for Internet Transactions.  It was written by a couple of folks over at Microsoft who develop TCA methodologies for Microsoft for depolying...

From CIO Magazine this August: A survey of 48,000 IT workers on compensation, published in June by IT consultancy Foote Partners, finds that pay is rising for employees with application development, networking, messaging, database and systems administration know-how, and falling for those with skills in HTTP and HTML, among others. HOT SQL...

From CIO Magazine this August: A survey of 48,000 IT workers on compensation, published in June by IT consultancy Foote Partners, finds that pay is rising for employees with application development, networking, messaging, database and systems administration know-how, and falling for those with skills in HTTP and HTML, among others. HOT SQL...

Ron Jacobs is coming to OKC on August 24th for the lunch meeting only. Ron Jacobs is a product manager for Microsoft's patterns & practices team based in Redmond, Washington. A popular conference speaker and host of the weekly webcast patterns & practices Live! Ron brings together solid architectural content and a sense of humor...

Ron Jacobs is coming to OKC on August 24th for the lunch meeting only. Ron Jacobs is a product manager for Microsoft's patterns & practices team based in Redmond, Washington. A popular conference speaker and host of the weekly webcast patterns & practices Live! Ron brings together solid architectural content and a sense of humor...

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