Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:16 PM
Wow, devLink this year was even better than last year. I thought it was odd having it in the Fall instead of the Spring but I liked it.
I think a 2 day convention is perfect. Enough time to get your brain sloshy, but not so much that it leaks out. Brian H. Prince
http://brianhprince.blogspot.com was great retelling his career progression. He tricked us into agreeing to sign up for Twitter... which I have not completed yet.
Could it maybe be called something a little more aggressive than 'tweeting'?
Why does it seem like the patterns/tricks/etc. that we hold most dear get shredded when the 'magic' is taken away? For instance, 'with(nolock)' which I was conditioned to use. Now I find out it is basically akin to using an empty Try/Catch thereby masking the underlying problem. Wild and humbling, as usual.
Off to harass PL/SQL's one hour subtraction -1/24 syntax... aaaahhhh.
rusty