I just discovered a new SELECT clause that has been added to T-SQL in SQL Server 2005. TABLESAMPLE can be used to return a sampling of rows (either a fixed number or a specified percent of the table rows). Here is how it is used: /* Get a sample 5 rows */ SELECT * FROM table TABLESAMPLE (5 ROWS) /*...
Emmy Huang (Product Manager for Flash Player) has posted an update on Flash Player 9 for Linux (bottom line, it's being worked on).
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes uses a little RegEx Tester utility to aid study, and versions of this utility have been posted for multiple languages. The next most requested language is PHP, and I just posted a PHP port of the utility created by my co-worker Charles Bihis....
I needed to do a fresh install of SQL Server 2005 Express yesterday, and no matter what I tried the installation kept failing with really strange errors about invalid or missing MSI files. The solution? Manually extract the installer files to a temporary folder and then run the extracted setup,...
Abercrombie & Kent , a luxury adventure travel company located in Oak Brook, IL, has an immediate opening for a ColdFusion Developer. Details posted online .
Looking for a ColdFusion position in the Bay Area? Adobe is looking for someone to join an in-house development team. Details posted online .
KraftMaid is one of the largest and most recognized brands of cabinetry for the home. KraftMaid products are sold by Lowe's and The Home Depot as well as 1600 independent deals here in the U.S., as well as in over a dozen other countries. I visited the KraftMaid site today (I needed to contact them...
Flex UI superstar Ely Greenfield is at it again, check out his In Place Editing Controls experiment. Very cool stuff!
We all love undocumented features, and Mike Morearty has posted what I think is the first undocumented Flex Builder tip, how to tweak the XML file containing the colors used in syntax color coding .
Developer Week is a week of free, online technical seminars on Adobe technologies, scheduled for June 12-16. Included are sessions on the Adobe engagement platform, ColdFusion, Flex, LiveCycle, ActionScript, and more. 5 days, 3 sessions a day, 15 unique sessions in all. All sessions will be via...