Received an email from a guy I know through our blogs and the shared blogs we follow regarding quantum computing.  I posted awhile back on quantum cryptography. If you haven’t seen some of what AtomChip Corporation is doing, you should check it out.  I believe this is the future of componentry.  Here are the...

Received an email from a guy I know through our blogs and the shared blogs we follow regarding quantum computing.  I posted awhile back on quantum cryptography. If you haven’t seen some of what AtomChip Corporation is doing, you should check it out.  I believe this is the future of componentry.  Here are the...

Today is the day.  My 30th birthday.  The big benchmark.  No longer a young 20–something.  No longer can I fool myself into believing I’m still just right out of high school and those teenage years.  I’m now 30.  It sounds freaky just saying it. Now I’m probably going to have to start writing code like a 30...

Today is the day.  My 30th birthday.  The big benchmark.  No longer a young 20–something.  No longer can I fool myself into believing I’m still just right out of high school and those teenage years.  I’m now 30.  It sounds freaky just saying it. Now I’m probably going to have to start writing code like a 30...

Firefox!  Please!  I love you so much, please relenquish your iron grip on my resources, as you are rendering my computer useless. I like to have just one browser open, and sometimes get up to about 10 tabs open in that browser.  Its becoming more common that Firefox (I’m using 1.0.7) locks up and I have to kill it.  This...

Firefox!  Please!  I love you so much, please relenquish your iron grip on my resources, as you are rendering my computer useless. I like to have just one browser open, and sometimes get up to about 10 tabs open in that browser.  Its becoming more common that Firefox (I’m using 1.0.7) locks up and I have to kill it.  This...

While helping a friend with some code, I ran into a situation where I needed to do something to word wrap lines that were going to print.  The lines were actually data coming from a database where the max length of the field is over 300 characters.  When making this data show up in a multiline textbox, it isn’t a big deal because we...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases.  Stay tuned to this blog for weekly updates to this series, or...

This is amazing.  It took over 700 computers working for years, but researchers (who coulda spent these kinda resources on something much more worthwhile, but that is another story) have identified the largest known prime number back on December 15th, 2005, which is over 9.1 million digits long.  That is absolutely amazing.  Also...

This is amazing.  It took over 700 computers working for years, but researchers (who coulda spent these kinda resources on something much more worthwhile, but that is another story) have identified the largest known prime number back on December 15th, 2005, which is over 9.1 million digits long.  That is absolutely amazing.  Also...

Here I talked about row size limitations and using varchar versus nvarchar data in Sql Server.  Now, lets look at what you can do in Sql Server 2005 that allows you to surpase the 8KB row size limit. Sql Server 2005 still adheres to the 8K page size.  But now, you are allowed to have rows that exceed that limit.  Individual...

Here I talked about row size limitations and using varchar versus nvarchar data in Sql Server.  Now, lets look at what you can do in Sql Server 2005 that allows you to surpase the 8KB row size limit. Sql Server 2005 still adheres to the 8K page size.  But now, you are allowed to have rows that exceed that limit.  Individual...

I saw the following question posted on a forum and left the answer for the poster.  I thought I would share it with you all as I am in the process of the Database Basics posts, and this ties in. “What is the difference between nvarchar and varchar data types?” The difference in varchar and nvarchar datatypes is simple. ...

I saw the following question posted on a forum and left the answer for the poster.  I thought I would share it with you all as I am in the process of the Database Basics posts, and this ties in. “What is the difference between nvarchar and varchar data types?” The difference in varchar and nvarchar datatypes is simple. ...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. The ACID model has been a cornerstone of database modeling for a very long...