Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

This site needs no explanation. It's extremely basic, but hey, it works. Maybe they should get a myKB.com account and move it to there. It might be a bit more user friendly (and RSS accessible) that way.

I got lots of feedback yesterday about some really great SQL Diff programs. Thanks guys. I can't wait to check them out.

I needed to do a SQL Diff today <coughing>Yukon team pay attention</coughing> and I came across a great program called Beyond Compare. It lets me load up 2 files side-by-side, and shows me where there are differences. It let me compare the outputs of SQLEM-generated scripts, and see where changes were made. It was a HUGE help. It is not without problems though. Line editing is clumsy (you can only edit one line at a time, and you can't edit the file directly) however they do make it easy to copy text between the files. All in all, it's a great product, and well worth the $30.

I was catching up on Neowin news, and I saw an entry entitled “Microsoft software 'riddled with vulnerabilities'”. I was shocked, nay dumbfounded, to see so many pro-Microsoft comments. Especially along the lines of my rant before I left for the weekend. A few quotes:

Just got back from Cali. Since it's the first time I spent a whole weekend away from my computer, I'm going to blog about it in my personal blog. I did however, get to spend nearly three hours with the nefarious Paul Alexander from Xheo.com (He was the only one that took me up on my weblogger meeting offer). I was really glad to finally meet the guy after doing buiness together for so long. I'm really excited about the stuff we have going on over the next few months. The guy is really down to earth, one hella nice guy. Supposedly he's coming to Phoenix in the middle of October. Anyone up for a .NET Golf Tournament? We can play a few rounds and then party at my place on the tenth green. Any takers? Dan... Brady... Scott??

So I decided to upgrade my RAM today. Little did I know it was going to be an ALL DAY EVENT.

You know, this really pisses me off. It gives young adults like me a really bad name. The guy is an idiot, and now he could face 10 years in prison for being an idiot. I would say “serves him right”, but look at the damage he helped inflict. He helped cost Microsoft millions of dollars. He forced MS to ask hundreds of employees to give up their free time to help out customers with the fix. This cost MS not only in having to employ extra staff, but also in lost development time. He helped cause thousands of people significant headaches.

In this post, I talked about what I want to see in Yukon.