October 31, 2005
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I’ve just installed SQL Servewr 2005 on my main dev machine, and while I’m an admin (yes, I know it’s bad but I [un]install lots of things so is just easier). However, since I had to reinstall my DC I … Continue reading
October 25, 2005
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A few weeks ago I rebooted by main server and because it was taking a long time to come back I went to the cabinet to see what the problem was. It was stuck correcting what seemed like a zillion … Continue reading
October 25, 2005
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Presentations from PDC 2005 are available for streaming or download. [Listening to: What Is It Now? - Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed the Fish?]
October 19, 2005
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Well, sort of. I’m using a SQL system to reduce comment spam, which is why comment entry is really slow – each entry is checked with a regular expression against a table of know keywords/sites. It’s slow, but it works. … Continue reading
October 14, 2005
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… are in London until March 2006, at the New London Theatre in Drury Lane. I’ve just booked tickets for early December, to go with Dan and Jane, who have only seen the show in German and although it’s mostly … Continue reading
October 13, 2005
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It’s a really odd problem this. Comments from the web UI don’t work, and yet if I trace the SQL using the Profile, and copy the SQL being executed, and run than explicitly in Query Analyzer it works. What’s changed? … Continue reading
October 12, 2005
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We already know that the Visual Studio 2005 designer doesn’t support nested master pages, but it’s worth pointing out other problems when setting the masterPageFile attribute of the element in web.config. There are two issues with content pages in this … Continue reading
October 10, 2005
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Never make a funnny face while Plip has a camera.
October 10, 2005
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I recently bough the Microsoft fingerprint reader, after a recommendation, and I’ve been surprised by how good the package is. It doesn’t work for logons in a domain, which is my configuration, but then I don’t turn my machine off, … Continue reading
October 10, 2005
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Plip is talking about workflows, and I really think this is actually an important step in software design. We all build workflows into our applications, even if we don’t realise this is exactly what they are. Building Workflow into the … Continue reading