I have not yet downloaded the new CTP, but the KC User group meeting the other night as well as recent decision that I had to make about whether or not to purchase LiteSpeed has inspired me to do some research into SQL Server 2008. Apparently Microsoft is still a little sensitive from being 2 [...]
Browsing Posts published in June, 2007
There was some discussion about SQL Server 2008 at the KC .NET user group meeting last night and I involuntarily winced at the thought of another upgrade because we just finished an intensive migration process a few months ago. In hindsight, the migration went fairly smoothly but it was definitely not a trivial process, nor [...]
If you’re crazy enough to run marathons for fun like me, you are probably familiar with a concept called cross-training. This slightly counter-intuitive approach asserts that you can actually increase your performance in your chosen sport by doing it less frequently and supplementing it instead with complementary activities. In other words, you will run faster [...]
Jeff Atwood recently wrote a blog post on Informavores that uses a food foraging metaphor to describe typical web usage behavior. According to this analogy, the ultra short attention span of most web users is not due to laziness or cultural ADD, but has more to do with an innate survival instinct that leads us [...]
Scott Berkun has an amusing post on ADD (**shole Driven Development), a parody on TDD which occurs when the technical decision-making process in an IT Shop is hijacked by an over-bearing personality who always manages to persuade people into doing things a certain way because the cost of opposing that person is simply too high. [...]
I’ve noticed my geek ego being aggravated a few times lately so I figured I’d better work on a more effective personal implementation of IHumbleProgrammer. My current implementation seems to be leading to errors in my thought process and even causing my learning to hang. Please excuse the VB.NET, poor formatting, and lack of a valid unit [...]
Someone sent me a great quote the other day from Douglas Adams: “I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.” It brought back distant memories of a gigantic waterfall project that I survived. I think the word survived is appropriate in this case because we labored on [...]
In his blog post on Old School Programming, Wesner Moise waxes nostalgic about his pre-high school experiences with writing his own disassembler and assembler for the Comodore 64. Apparently he used his homemade dissassembler to decode and rewrite the entire 8k BASIC ROM back to source and then used his assembler to add his own [...]
A few years ago I shifted roles from a developer team lead who coded almost full time to an Architect. Although I am naturally a bit of an abstract thinking and find architectural issues interesting, I have always been hesitant about this role because of the ubiquitous Architecture Astronauts that have given the discipline a [...]
I listened to an interesting prodcast on Channel 9 on my way to work this morning. I never had an inclination to listen to the MicroISV show before, but the title intrigued me: CrazyBusy – Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD“. Multi-tasking has never been a strength of mine [...]
