- Understanding SQL 2005's new PIVOT clauseSQL Server 2005 has lots of new tricks up its sleeve. During our user group meeting this past Wednesday night there was a question about how to use one such enhancement: the PIVOT statement. You ca…
- Array of DataRecord vs. DataView: A Dramatic Difference in PerformanceI spent much of last weekend running tests against a table with 122,000 records. The folks at Citibank and Geico would just yawn at that amount of data, but where I work that's fairly heavy lifting…
- A Sad Day For Open Source - NDoc is NDoneA Sad Day For Open Source - NDoc is NDone
- Using WIA for scanningI was playing around this morning with scanning images and put together an adapter class that uses the Windows automation library (WIAAUT.DLL) which is part of the WIA automation SDK -- WIA means W…
- DRM! Moving you DRM Protected eBooks to Mobile DevicesIf you’ve tried moving an eBook you bought on Amazon that was protected with DRM to your palm device and have been successful skip this post. However, if you’ve tried your hands at if and failed (b…
- Hack your Tungsten-E to improve it's Battery life!I’ve been reading a LOT lately, mostly during my commute. I’ve been a MP3 Audio Book guy for the past few months but nothing beats reading. So, lately I’ve been accompanied by my 1.5 year old Tungs…
- Using Enterprise SSO (Single Sign-On) with the SAP Adapter and in generalUsing Enterprise SSO (Single Sign-On) with the SAP Adapter and in general
- Changing to a friendly Team Foundation Server NameSo you just finish installing TFS, it works great and you’re about to give out the name to all your devs so they can start using the great new features in TFS but the name of the server uses corpor…
- Validating any XML Document within OrchestrationRecently, I needed to validate any XML documents within BizTalk. I tried, but it was too limiting in that it required the SchemaStrongName property of the message, which, for a message of type XmlD…
- The row value(s) updated or deleted either do not make the row unique or they alter multiple rows.I came across an error today in SQL Server 2005.
- Iowa Porkbusting Efforts - A Scorecard of Iowa Pork and Congressional EarmarksPork (also known as congressional earmarks) is special projects granted money from congress to promote certain causes. Sometimes earmarks are a good thing, and the right thing to do. But more often…
- Congratulations, Eclipse Aviation!Several years ago Bill Gates invested into a little aviation firm founded by his friend Vern Raburn in his old stomping grounds of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Today their just received provisional FAA…
- Using NHibernate with MySQLI did not find a lot of information on using NHibernate in combination with a MySQL database. The reason I want to do this at all is quite simple, though: My ISP hosts ASP.NET 2 and MySQL databases…
- Visual Studio 2005 - Documentation Generation Using NDoc 2005Recently I have been designing an Application Framework in .NET/ASP.NET 2.0.
- Generate Code-DOMs directly from C# or VB.NETIf you write applications in .NET that generate .NET language source-code as output, and the output language should be selectable (typically C# or VB.NET), then you will probably end up generating …
- Model-View-Presenter split into two "new" patternsFor the past year or so, Martin Fowler has included the pattern Model-View-Presenter, or MVP, in his upcoming addendum to Patterns of Enterprise Application Development. Due to apparent confusions …
- IIS Error "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred"I was getting the following error when trying to start IIS from my XP machine:
- "Enterprise mashup maker"Sam Ruby points to this demonstration of "situational mashups" using IBM's DB2 v9. DB2 v9, aka "Viper", supports XPath and XQuery, and even Atom syndication.
- Exclusive: London Girl Geek Dinner Short Film by Angela Saini of ITNThe London Girl Geek Dinner short film has just been released. Here is an exclusive first look at it prior to it going on FourDocs. It was filmed about a month ago by Angela Saini of ITN who was ju…
