Archives
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OleDbCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters
If you use a JET data provider, this method throws an exception saying that the underlying provider does not support this method.
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Questions about Rory...
Some have wondered aloud if Rory is gay.
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Teach yourself programming in...how long?
Great article here - the premise is that all the “Teach yourself [something] in 21 days“ books which have proliferated in the past 10 years are all bogus. In fact, most skills (not just programming) take about 10 years to master.
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Single Sign-on enterprise Security for Web Applications
This new article by Paul Sheriff discusses a framework that allows both internal Intranet users to be authenticated to a web site using Windows Authentication, and external users (clients or customers or B2B or whatever) to be authenticated using Forms authentication.
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Google Microsoft!
Ever try searching support.microsoft.com or msdn.microsoft.com for something and not get what you want? I've usually ended up using Google to find kb articles or whatever, then getting a ton of non-MS related hits in the results.
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Another webcast with Joel
I was Joel's 'question monkey' today on his second webcast this week. We had some fun today, there were far less questions than Wednesday's presentation.
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What Monty Python character are you?
I am the rabbit, with “nasty, big, pointy teeth!”
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ASP.NET and popup pages...
I'm not an ASP.NET expert by any means, so I post this question to the Blogsphere...
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Cursors, BAD! Table Vars, GOOD!
As of SQL Server 2000, we have had the table variable to use in T-SQL for temporary tables or user defined functions. I like to use table variables wherever I can because I have observed performance problems with CURSORS and #TEMPTable objects.
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Family naming conventions
Jon Blake Cusack, self-confessed geek, convinced his wife to name his son Jon Black Cusack Version 2.0
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Diskette features
I have a box of diskettes open on my desk, and I just noticed a feature on the side of the box: