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December 3, 2006

SQL Server 2005 Debugging Woes

It's not that often that I need a debugger for my SQL code, but every once in a while it's an absolute must, and today is one of those days. I have a several hundred line stored procedure which works with multiple view and table variables, dozens of variables, and three levels of nested cursors....

December 2, 2006

No Mercy For Former Nazi Guards

The Detroit Free Press is running a story today about three Michigan senior citizens (aged 81-86), all of whom are accused by the U.S. Justice Department of being Nazi guards (or of assisting the Nazis). The debate now is what to do with these men. The DOJ's Office of Special Investigations wants...

December 2, 2006

ZarMedia Offering ColdFusion Hosting In Brazil

Ari Zanuto is one of the founding members of the Brazilian ColdFusion community, he's a former co-worker, and is an Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) Certified Instructor. Ari recently launched ZarMedia , a hosting company offering ColdFusion hosting (Windows 2003 based, running ColdFusion 7.0.2)....

December 1, 2006

Major Windows Smartphone Limitation

I did not realize this until I needed it today, but ... ActiveSync syncs Outlook features, right? Calendar? Yes. Contacts? Yes. Tasks? Yes. E-Mail? Yes. Notes? Nope! Outlook notes are synchronized if you have a Windows Mobile device, but not if you have a Windows Smartphone device! I can't think of...

November 30, 2006

ColdFusion Is Not A DBMS!

I just spent some time helping a very irate customer. You know, the "ColdFusion sucks" "we're going to dump CF" "how can you sell this ****" brand of irate. The cause of all of this anger and frustration was very serious ColdFusion performance issues. And I am sure the individual has been under a...

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