Phil Factor's Phrenetic Phoughts : February 2007

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February 2007 - Posts

The march of time

Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:43 AM | 2 Comments

Phil Factor tells the story of an aging programmer forced to change his profession, who discovered to his surprise that the grass on the other side of the fence really was greener. Read More

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'The C Language is a toy'.

Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 2:20 PM | 8 Comments

Phil Factor has witnessed many disasterous mistakes in the IT industry, and actually participated in a few. But the biggest mistake of all was intriguing because it still provides a message for the software industry today, and it is difficult not to sympathise with the victims. Read More

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February 2007

Net Performance Cribsheet

Robyn and Phil tackle the topic of how to make .NET applications perform well. As usual, they try to... Read more...

SQL Code Layout and Beautification

William Brewer takes a look at the whole topic of SQL Code layout and beautification, an important... Read more...

SSIS Package Componentization

In this article, David Leibowitz describes methods for scalable SQL Server 2005 Integration Services... Read more...

The Burning Men - The IT drug habit

It would seem bizzare that IT staff who depend on their quick wits for their living should ever think... Read more...

The Time Bomb

Phil cheerfully admits to his fair share of accidental IT disasters. His experiences some time ago with... Read more...