September 2006 - Posts

"Toe"

Published Sat, Sep 30 2006 4:45 | William

I can almost feel the hate mail accruing before I even post this, but it's too funny not to post. Do you remember a group called 20 Fingers ? They had two songs that were quite popular in most of the dance clubs like 10 years ago. Anyway, I've...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Finally a candidate I can really get behind.

Published Sat, Sep 30 2006 4:15 | William

I just came across this and it made my night. Not only is Herb Sewell running for President, but Walter Bellhaven is his first pick for VP.

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

Differentiating between "Denormalization" and excuse making.

Published Wed, Sep 27 2006 6:47 | William

I've actually got a lot to discuss about database stuff but wanted to start out explaining a very basic concept. All me to disgress for a moment. I've worked at a few places where there were some Cobol/AS 400 developers that were quite full of...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Comment of the week - Sql Server Reporting Services vs. Crystal

Published Wed, Sep 27 2006 6:27 | William

A while ago, I posted this about how much a55 I think Crystal Reports sucks. A long time ago, back at like v.7, I thought Crystal was a decent product. And to be honest, it still is a decent product. But it comes with a lot of baggage and has a lot that...

Filed under: Humor, Data Access, .NET General, Coding Techniques, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

The Move to Atlanta

Published Wed, Sep 27 2006 2:41 | William

I doubt there is anyone that hates moving as much as I do, but for someone that hates moving, I sure do it a lot. Actually, I don't hate moving in the sense of going somewhere new, in fact I'm quite fond of that. But the physical process of moving...

Filed under: Humor, Me, Mindless Babbling

Normalization really does matter

Published Thu, Sep 7 2006 15:30 | William

It seems like years ago, but I remember one of my professors giving us an assignment. It involved taking a database chock full of redundancies and writing the SQL Statements to make a few small updates. We thought it was an assignment to test our SQL...

Filed under: Data Access, Coding Techniques

Out, Out, You Demons of Stupidity

Published Thu, Sep 7 2006 2:27 | William

I'm not exactly sure why I decided to post this today but I guess my mind just started wandering... This isn't an original post by any means and I don't really have much new to offer, just some miscellaneous ranting about the I.T. Industry...

South Carolina Code Camp 2.0

Published Thu, Sep 7 2006 2:22 | William

From Chris' Blog... South Carolina Code Camp 2.0 is in 11 days. This year, Code Camp is 2 days instead of one and is being held in Greenville SC at the Buck Mickel Center on September 16th and 17th. On Saturday, we have tracks on Web, Windows, Framework...

How screwed up are you?

Published Sat, Sep 2 2006 2:58 | William

"It's the kind of thing that makes you want to sit in a room with no furniture and cut the eyes out of pictures". Lately, I'm starting to understand where Vernon was coming from......

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Memes