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Caffeine Induced Tirades about .NET and Life
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Life
Whatever random stuff I come up with about Life outside of development (is there one?)
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Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:56 AM |
As we gathered around the board room table everyone on the project team noticed a glaring bullet point on the agenda: Project Hours. Apparently a member of our management team had returned from a meeting at 4:30 one day and noticed that Read More
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Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:20 AM |
I've seen many cases where business people and technical people collide. Part of building an effective business requires understanding and respecting the various departments in an organization and their individual areas of expertise. But too Read More
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Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 8:57 AM |
Simple-Talk is about technology and beer, but we're going to expand that a bit to include mixed drinks as well. My wife and I frequent a local Bennigans and have been hooked on a drink called the Pattio Punch (or Paddy-O Punch). It's a tropical Read More
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Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:18 AM |
A while back, I was reading the story of Susan Kuhnhausen, a nurse who came home one day to find a burglar in her home. After she came in, the burglar attacked her with a hammer. Apparently he got in at least one blow to her head, though it Read More
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Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:43 PM |
I'm amazed at some of the things people have to put up with at work, especially when it comes to misguided policies designed to boost productivity when in fact all they really do is hurt morale. Too often, people are resigned to accepting these Read More
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Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:37 AM |
You may have thought this blog entry was about databases, but no. It's about Ford fleecing me on a set of keys. Actually it's more about me whining because I lost my keys and they are really expensive to replace, but whatever. If you Read More
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Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 12:37 AM |
Language is a quirky thing. I’m from Texas, so I speak American, Texan, and my six years of classroom Spanish have given me the ability to ask for beer and directions to the bathroom. I say that I speak American because I’ve been told by Read More
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Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:01 AM |
Even though I'm a web developer by nature, I find myself writing about databases fairly often. At work I'm writing a proposal for building a reporting database with a denormalized structure for better query performance and I keep running into a Read More
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Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 1:37 PM |
I can imagine how the conversation must have gone. A slick salesman stood in the board room staring down a room full of business savy executives. "Just image how much money you will save," said the salesman, producing a break even analysis Read More
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Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:47 PM |
Most bloggers start out with an overly idealistic view that their blog is going to contain Pulitzer quality coverage of current events and issues and that millions of people will flock to their site daily to hear the latest buzz. That optimism quickly Read More
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