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Friday, August 17, 2007 9:45 PM

Sidebar monitoring of SQL databases

A while back I discussed using the Windows Vista Sidebar to display useful information about applications. This led to other conversations, including one with fellow SQL MVP (and Leeds United fan - sorry to hear about the 15 points, mate) Jamie Thomson...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:21 AM

Cricket PowerGadget

I was thinking about PowerShell and how you can get it to do fantastic things. And I wondered how easily it could be used for scraping cricket scores . So I threw together four lines of code to grab the cricket scoreboard from cricinfo and rip out the...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:31 AM

Cricket gadget

Being English, I'm finding this Ashes series quite depressing. I updated the Wikipedia site to say that Australia had won the series 3-0, but took no joy in doing so. It's not often you get to update Wikipedia with information about a live event - but...
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Friday, December 15, 2006 4:15 PM

Application monitoring in 20 seconds with PowerGadgets

Performance Monitoring is great, but unless you've made a bunch of custom monitors, it doesn't really tell you the health of your application. Well, not completely. For example, take wHooiz - Cameron and Clarke's profile tool. I'm sure they have various...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:36 AM

Whooiz my Friendz?

Observant people will have noticed a friend-list appear on the side of my blog. Changing my blog around is way overdue for me. I need to take a few hours out some time and work on the CSS. I still don't have all the useful stuff that I had at my old blog...
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