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We all know how important team synergy is. Be it a sports team or a corporate one, great things can be achieved by people working together. When people click the impossible becomes possible. People can discuss and debate by setting aside egos. The distinction...
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In "The Pragmatic Programmer" , the authors talk of the Unix philosophy of “small, sharp tools” and the limitations of GUI apps. I strongly agree with them. No doubt GUI apps have their place in the world, but there is something very simple yet powerful...
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Recently I worked on a performance issue of a search query in SQL Server involving quite a few parameters. After making some changes, one thing that I wasn’t too sure of was if the OR operator in SQL short-circuits similar to the && or || operator...
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Sc.exe, provided with the Windows Resource Kit, is a command line utility for working with Windows services. It can be used to create and delete windows services in addition to other tasks. Detailed MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192...
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Since inspiration comes in all forms, William Kamkwamba is no exception. He was a 14 year old (back in 2002) who had to drop out of school because his parents couldn't afford the fees. He lived in a remote part of Africa without any materials to build...
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Identity columns are quite common in SQL databases. While the pros & cons of using identity columns vs GUIDs is a different topic all together, identity columns do make life easier if all you care about is creating a simple unique record identifier...
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A while back I ran into a similar scenario and found a simple solution to the problem....
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I just love KeePass . Loads from a thumb drive, works with Windows and OS X (along with a bunch of other ports ), has some nice features and best of all - its free....
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I once read that message queuing frameworks are one of the most underutilized technologies when it comes to enterprise applications. Whether that's true or not, Microsoft offers two queuing frameworks to Windows developers - MSMQ & Service Broker....
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Exceptions (unexpected errors) are a part of every application lifecycle. No matter how reliable your code is there will be instances when the app will run into unexpected runtime issues and rightfully so the CLR will raise an exception. A general rule...
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