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How many movies have you seen this year?
This question was posed on Hacking Netflix because Becky just blogged how she has watched 200 already this year. My count so far was 96. In comparison, I only watch about 3 shows on TV a week totalling about 2.5 hrs on TiVo, and I have been to the theater about 3 times. That would […]
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E3 and the XBox 360
Wow, information overload. The music, the videos, the crowds…holy toledo. I had to park almost a mile away from the Convention Center. I must say that the standout for me was the XBox 360. They had a bunch of 42″ Plasmas showing some great looking games coming out. Call of Duty 2 was just sick. […]
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Fun with #region
I am not sure if I did this on accident, or my intern did it, but I found this in my code: #region Constructors//code here #endregion Constructors I was not aware you can put a tag after #endregion. Kind of nice to clearly delineate long regions. Not that it really matters, but Visual Studio allows […]
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Learning C# over VB.NET
I just finished writing a long 'ol email to a friend who wants to do a project in VB.NET since his background is in legacy ASP. Although my points have been illustrated by many over and over, I thought I would post what I wrote in the hopes others can add to my list. I […]
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ITunes RSS Generator
Pretty nifty…
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Using SQL Where Clauses for Searching
One piece of SQL lore I take for granted is COALESCE(). The dictionary definition describes SQL's use pretty close as “To bring or come together into a united whole”. Books Online states in laymans terms that SQL allows you to pass any number of arguments to the function, and it will return the first non-null […]
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Retrieving Values from SQL Exec()
Never had a good reason to do this up until now, but if you need to get a value from a generated sql string, there are a few hoops you must jump through. Example: declare @table varchar(20) ,@username varchar(30)–can't use double quotes w/out this :)SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF–set your variablesselect @table = 'tblcustomers' ,@username = 'webmaster'–create […]
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Sql Dependencies
This is a rad sproc to find dependencies from Brett. Sometimes I come across a sproc that I *think* I can delete but you never can be too sure. This makes that process A LOT easier. I am reposting it here for my own benefit with some slight formatting differences to make it easier for […]
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Let My People Go
Ahh, Passover…how fondly I remember thee. A lot of food: A lot of wine: And plenty of prayers: In all seriousness, one of the best Passovers. The food was phenomenal thanks to my mother-in-law and aunt-in-law for the majority, and the company was good fun. The trick is having 3 or 4 times more people […]
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Deauthorize iTunes Before Reformatting
I added this to my Reinstall Windows Todo List, but felt I should devote one blog on it because of its importance. To put it simply, iTunes allows you to play or “authorize” your music on up to 5 computers. If you reformat your machine before “deauthorizing” it, you waste one of those licenses. As […]