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More required reading: AntiPatterns
Steve thinks every coder should read the classic GoF "Design Patterns": Are Design Patterns A Bad...
Author: reedme Date: 07/13/2007
Incorrect logic operator selection
Trika asked whether "nudie pics" as a response to a silly question was funny or inappropriate....
Author: reedme Date: 07/12/2007
Who's doing code reviews these days?
I wish more people were doing code reviews... It's hard enough to get people to read my code when I...
Author: reedme Date: 07/11/2007
What would I do?
Jason poses an interesting question... WWYD (What would you do) - A random story for feedback I see...
Author: reedme Date: 07/11/2007
But do you want to be great?
I can't remember the name of the Steven Seagal movie the title quote comes from (maybe the Demon Alz...
Author: reedme Date: 07/03/2007
Goodness! Be careful, people!!
20,690 work-related injuries of IT folks in 2005? Wow! Just in the U.S.? Thankfully those were the...
Author: reedme Date: 07/02/2007
Business Intelligence Best Practices?
Although the primary sponsors are not necessarily always Microsoft-friendly, BI is still a small...
Author: reedme Date: 07/02/2007
Yeah, me, too. I always forget on a fresh install.
Thanks for the reminder, Davy! SSAS: Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154...
Author: reedme Date: 06/29/2007
Plug-n-Play command line in Vista
Pain: my [censored] Tablet PC will often (usually!) not recognize my beautiful, wide screen HD LCD...
Author: reedme Date: 06/21/2007
Back Burner: Evaluate Change Director for SQL Server
Well, after Code Project "spammed" me about it this morning, I was interested to download and check...
Author: reedme Date: 06/20/2007
Note to self: SSRS Scale-Out Checklist
Since I had to look it up (again) for a client, odds are good that I'll need it agin' in the future....
Author: reedme Date: 06/20/2007
OK, more fun with Vista on x64 with VIA SATA RAID VT8237
Time to repurpose the x64 dev server as a development workstation. I expected to have trouble with...
Author: reedme Date: 06/17/2007
The same can be said of data architects...
For the love of all that's holy, people, show some appreciation! Even the civil engineers are...
Author: reedme Date: 06/15/2007
Microsoft eScrum now up on Download Center!
For the agile among us, this is pretty cool. Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0 I'm looking forward to...
Author: reedme Date: 06/14/2007
I normally hate these things...
And I guess I hate this one, too. Programmer Personality Test It would be funnier if it had pirates,...
Author: reedme Date: 06/07/2007
I didn't miss him while he was gone...
I don't remember when Jonathan went off the air; it's been a while. A long while. I still believed...
Author: reedme Date: 06/05/2007
Microsoft on SourceForge?
This was announced in April, I think, but at that time I was living in a Building 40 cave (helpfully...
Author: reedme Date: 06/05/2007
The Quiz Lives!
Okay, so Grant's article is not actually The Quiz that I used to give as a hiring manager before...
Author: reedme Date: 05/30/2007
38. 39. Whatever it takes.
Over brunch, Confucius might have mentioned that a joke isn't funny if you have to explain it. He...
Author: reedme Date: 05/20/2007
So long 32-bit. We barely knew ye...
As the digital millennium approaches in 2048, you are planning for your purchase of 64-bit hardware...
Author: reedme Date: 05/19/2007
Can you hear me now?
I don't know where the time went, but the past couple months sure blew past... All the best laid...
Author: reedme Date: 05/18/2007
Mirror, mirror
Somebody asked me for help on mirroring questions earlier this week; this is just another...
Author: reedme Date: 03/29/2007
SourceForge getting into the contract coder marketplace?
Focused on buying or selling services for open source software? Yet Another Foray into Contract...
Author: reedme Date: 03/27/2007
Is this like dreaming about having a dream?
I avoid thinking about the potential recursion paradox. There lies madness... IBM Launches...
Author: reedme Date: 03/22/2007
Note to self: 0xC0047041
It's as good a time as any to push out one of my backlogged SSIS posts. It wasn't any fun jousting...
Author: reedme Date: 03/15/2007
Thanks, Len! More SSAS performance than the law allows...
For all those people who wanted it from amore authoritative source, here it is: SQL Server...
Author: reedme Date: 03/15/2007
Yes, I got the memo, but I'm not sure it's entirely accurate...
I'm not knocking surveys generally or CompTIA specifically, but I do question the methodology of...
Author: reedme Date: 03/13/2007
Is this why we can't get kids to study computer science?
It goes without saying the DavidM blogs like a guy with an attitude waaay overdue for a consulting...
Author: reedme Date: 03/12/2007
It's not an addiction. It's work. Honest!
A 12-step program for email addiction? Seriously, just because I have a wireless broadband PC card...
Author: reedme Date: 03/07/2007
Patent applications to become a full contact sport?
In theory, I support the idea of public review of patent applications, but I can also imagine that...
Author: reedme Date: 03/07/2007
Is there a reasonable expectation of encryption?
Oh, dear. I think the privacy advocates are going to have a hard time with this one. I don't know...
Author: reedme Date: 03/06/2007
Next? Oracle to bet $3.3 billion on BI?
Oracle's intention to buy Hyperion for big bucks is more evidence that the war for executive...
Author: reedme Date: 03/01/2007
Good advice for consultants, too, not just employees.
If you've been consulting for a good while, the advice aimed at employees in Four Tips for Fitting...
Author: reedme Date: 02/27/2007
An obsessive-compulsive by any other name...
I personally think that that Nick is a nom de plume and that the author actually lives in Houston,...
Author: reedme Date: 02/26/2007
What's the most expensive bug you've ever written?
DoD contracts may be lucrative, but when your custom navigation-and-communication software package...
Author: reedme Date: 02/26/2007
Video Games May Lead to... Surgery?
Although this article does its best to preserve the media template that "Playing Video Games Too...
Author: reedme Date: 02/21/2007
Registration opens in 2 days...
No, I'm not blogging about the much anticipated Halo 3 Beta. Sorry! That's somebody else's job. Heh....
Author: reedme Date: 02/20/2007
It must have been Official Download Day yesterday: Virtual PC 2007 was RTW, too.
The beta of VPC2k7 was much happier on my Vista tablet than 2004 was, and I'm now happily coding my...
Author: reedme Date: 02/20/2007
Cool new data mining toys!
The Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 were released to the web with SP2. Download DM Addins Videos,...
Author: reedme Date: 02/20/2007
To my boss(es): See? It's not my fault!
For the bosses (including my lovely and gracious wife), I have a new excuse! I'm a highly reactant...
Author: reedme Date: 02/16/2007
Oooooh! Pivot diagrams in Visio...
It might seem inappropriate to some for me to suggest a Homer Simpson "Oooooh! Donuts!" moment over...
Author: reedme Date: 02/13/2007
As cool as PerformancePoint is...
As cool as PerformancePoint is... it's not here yet. So, you're probably still putting Office...
Author: reedme Date: 02/12/2007
Note to self: Update BizTalk documentation
Something I'll want to find and download (again) later, I'm sure. Published 20070206. Download...
Author: reedme Date: 02/12/2007
High Stakes Data Miners?
The title might bring to mind the BI specialists in Vegas, where arguably the most complex...
Author: reedme Date: 02/08/2007
Uh-oh. I might have to root for Apple again?
First the Norwegian thing and now tweaking the RIAA's nose? It's almost enough to make Jobs an...
Author: reedme Date: 02/07/2007