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Archive for December, 2005

What makes a good manager?

Posted in Business Advice, Everything, tagged on December 27, 2005 | 4 Comments »

I had a great Christmas this year, eating, drinking and conversing with family (as I always do).  This particular year, I got talking with Uncle Bob – a retired product manager from IBM – and we were conversing about what qualities make a good manager.  The post feast banter was riveting, so I decided to [...]

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T-SQL Transactions

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on December 8, 2005 | 2 Comments »

I do not confess to being a database expert, nor a guru in T-SQL, which is why I have only just found out how crap transactions in T-SQL on SQL Server 2000 can be.  Take a look at the following piece of T-SQL: CREATE TABLE #Foo ( PK int NOT NULL ) CREATE TABLE #Foo2 [...]

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Trapping Javascript Errors

Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged , on December 8, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

Jonathan Cogley posts a neat way to trap Javascript errors on a web page, followed by the firing of a server-side exception, so .NET code can be written to email the developer responsible. http://weblogs.asp.net/jcogley/archive/2005/12/07/432584.aspx

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Ding! Rob has posted again…

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on December 6, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

If, having your feed reader tell you that there is a new post on my blog, is not enough, then I come to your rescue with MSN Alerts.  Click the image link below (or on the side bar of my blog) and you can subscribe to receive an email or cell phone notification whenever I [...]

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Time for a change

Posted in Everything, Miscellaneous, tagged on December 3, 2005 | 3 Comments »

Aside of being busy at the office this week, as the project I am working on revs up into its implementation phase, I have been devoting a lot of my spare time looking into getting one of these.  A friend of mine says that he can always tell how busy someone is by the number [...]

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Firefox 1.5

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on December 3, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Oh righty, I am now running on the new version of Firefox (1.5), but the installation didn’t quite go that smoothly… Since I am running as LUA, like a good little boy, I flipped on over to a Windows account with administrative rights, made sure that no versions of Firefox are running, and then launched [...]

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