December 2004 - Posts
Well I had a very exciting weekend! My wife went into labor on Sunday and on Monday morning at 7:18 she delivered a beautiful baby boy: Alexander DeVere Likes: Both Mom and baby are doing great. Alex weighed 6 lbs. 4 oz. and is the best Christmas gift
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I was doing some house cleaning today and came across some of the free software that I was sent because I was a .Net user group leader. The user group was through my school ( CSUN ) and so once I graduated I tried to pass it along but it was never really
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I took advantage of Verizon's buy one get one free deal on the LG VX6100 phones. My wife and I both like them so far. Below is my first attempt at cat blogging : Melvin wasn't sure about getting her picture taken, but it was a good sample. The photo quality
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A couple of weeks ago Jan Tielens released the SmartPart version 1.0.0.0 . The SmartPart is a very cool WebPart that will host ASP.Net user controls in a SharePoint environment. This means you can use Visual Studio to edit the user controls and use the
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Well I finally got around to uploading our pictures onto my the photo site I created for my wife. So here are some pictures from our trip to Boston in October. Great fall colors. My wife and me at Walden Pond. In Plymouth My wife and her brother on the
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Much of the work I've been doing lately is DBA type of work rather than development work. Even though I'm a SQL Server MVP, I'm still a newbie when it comes to managing databases where there are lots of developers and users. Because of this I've become
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I use checksum in SQL Server to distinguish between records that are different instead of comparing the character strings in them. My application was working fine until I added a lot of records and suddenly things started getting messy. After taking a
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If you've check the SqlXml.org website recently you may have noticed it has become very stale. This is due to the fact that I've been kind of overwhelmed with trying to manage the content and keep it up-to-date with the new developments in SqlXml. So,
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Thanks to Brian Button , I am starting to get test driven development (TDD). TDD is a simple concept which is probably why it took so long for me to get it. I thought I understood it after reading through TTD in .Net . However, I think I only understood
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