I do not like page peels, they are too in your face for me. Dr. Dobbs Journal has used these in the past as well. Though the demonstration of good...

Renewable energy; what a great idea. Just keep talking it up, eventually this will beome mainstream.

Perhaps this is more an effort to control terrorism than efficiency. Tracking where all there equipment is and requiring logons before using the equipment would identify equipment in suspicous activity...

This article is quite a coincidence, I was just thinking this morning, how could I use log? Now if I could just remember how they worked, it's been 14 years...

We have one servr running 2005, mainly for Reporting Services. We needed Report Builder, something not available with 2000's Reporting Services.

Slicing up problems with temp tables really helps with performance. And you've identified ways to improve upon that basic approach by narrowing the number of columns and filtering the rows....

Time off; 4 or 5 weeks of vacation would have more impact than salary or other perks. There are still other important aspects to a job, respect, freedom and interesting...

When I was 19 (1983) I tried writing banking software on an Applie IIe to track how much money I was saving. Parts of it worked, but I gave up...

1.) PromptSQL is the best SQL tool I have. I've looked for a way to stop typing SELECT * FROM 50 times a day, with PromptSQL I've found out how....

Your timing is providential, just today I woke up and realized, dreading outsourcing and pretending everything is alright is foolishness. It's time to compete if I want to stay in...

The best I've heard was from one of Microsoft's own people about a rumor, "There is enough bad stuff about Microsoft, we don't need to make stuff up too."

For every Stored Procedure, there is a commented section containing test cases for that sproc.

For .NET development I use NUnit for every class method.

Training has been paid for within budget constraints. I also try to study 30 minutes a day where ever I am working. It's never been company policy, but my manager...

Smaller projects have failed because of lack of technical knowledge. A time and attendance company has failed in spite of my sticking in the trenches till the end.

Today I'm...

Being able to run Query Analyzer from the command line was worth the price of admission, that is the time I took to read the article. I will use that...