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Sunday, January 06, 2008 12:16 AM

The Myth of Stored Procedures Preference

When looking to the Stored Proscedures debate, there is always those three factors you should measure by. Productivity - Span code base over multiple staging environments is a pain and harder to maintain. - Versioning sp code is way harder than versioning...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 2:35 PM

Example of why Developers shouldn't be unsupervised :)

This little annoying icon announce that this is the time for Java fix, I have to download and install updates for Java from Sun which didn't take long to download but when the installation starts this screen appears.. as a typical user who is installing...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:58 PM

Security Tip

Hi folks, When you design your sophisticated "Change Password" feature in your next application make sure to retain the old password so the user can't re-choose them anymore.. You can keep a history of passwords and don't allow to use...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:35 PM

Windows 3.11 is living in Vista

Check this out Source: http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1022/picture13552.aspx
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Thursday, May 31, 2007 8:37 PM

You've got to be kidding, ID column

I was googling for a one day vacation, searching for cruises when i found this listing of cruises provided by travel agent forgive me not to purplish the URL. Not only he left the Select which i hate, but also the Id column.
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Monday, May 14, 2007 3:56 PM

How to con your customer?

I was trying out Mailinfo - which is a software that give you the ability to confirm read on your messages - today when i presented with this message..during installation. Look closer to the couple of sentences i have highlighted. Usually the user will...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:04 AM

One Message "Check Engine"

I was reading on the great book by Raymond Chen " The Old New Thing " when he point out that people never read error message and as Automobile companies figure it out by condition all the error messages in one single message "Check Engine" he wrote: Automobile...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007 12:27 PM

UML and the Maverick style

I'm very confused about UML i didn't had a chance to deeply work with it but now i guess it's already prisoned inside the boundaries of whiteboards nothing like UML will appear in any place other than the white board in the meeting room. Maybe i don't...
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