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How many development feeds can you take?
submitted by John_Idol 14 days, 17 hours ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — At the moment I have 104 active subscriptions on my reader, mostly development stuff, and I can barely keep up. I do not really read all the stuff that gets posted - I scan with my eyes: the question is how much is too much (assuming you have a day-job) if you don't wanna go crazy? read more...

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How to boost 'joined' Update Performance
submitted by John_Idol 27 days, 21 hours ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — Time for some real boring stuff read more...

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Computer localhost does not exist on the network?!
submitted by John_Idol 1 month, 1 day ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — Talk about useful error messages from SQL Server read more...

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[T-SQL] How to get length of TEXT field
submitted by John_Idol 1 month, 10 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — To calculate the lenght of a TEXT field the LEN function used to calculate the length of VARCHAR fields won't work read more...

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Learning SQL with Ganesh
submitted by John_Idol 1 month, 15 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — I found (and shared) this desperate help request yesterday on my google reader and I felt a burning desire to help the poor guy read more...

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Let That Boy Copy/Paste (with SQL2005 and Excel)
submitted by John_Idol 2 months, 5 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — How not to get your hands dirty with SQL moving data around when the team's DB guy (usually indian) is badly sick at home. read more...

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ICONIX Process Rocks
submitted by John_Idol 2 months, 27 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — This should probably give an answer to the few dinosaurs who like going around saying that AGILE is an excuse for not having a well-defined process (they probably think the V-Model still rocks - good lads) read more...

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How to Programmatically Create and Access Custom ConfigurationSections
submitted by John_Idol 3 months, 5 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — When you need to store config data in some specific format and key value pairs are not enough you can use Custom Configuration Sections as they are not complex to use (unless you need a fairly complex section) read more...

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[.NET] Generics Perfomance Myth (and Tony Northrup VS Wendy Sarret)
submitted by John_Idol 3 months, 13 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — According to Microsoft, Generics are faster than casting (boxing/unboxing): is it just a myth? read more...

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How to send debug text to output (or file)
submitted by John_Idol 3 months, 17 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — Snippet to send debug text to the output console or to a log file, and a bit of swearing read more...

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How long can a developer survive without Google?
submitted by John_Idol 3 months, 22 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — How many times did your boss come up with "can we do X?" and you didn't have a clue about it but answered "Yes, no probs at all - consider it done"? You were probably thinking "WTF - I have no idea about this", and first thing you do when you're back and safe at your desk is googling the damn thing up. read more...

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5 Weirdest Google Searches to end up in this Blog
submitted by John_Idol 3 months, 26 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — this is not SEO bullshit, it's just my TOP 5 of Weirdest Google Searches to End Up in This (Development) Blog read more...

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How to create a shared folder in C#
submitted by John_Idol 3 months, 27 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — nitty-gritty C# code snippet to create and share a directory read more...

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[.NET] C# 'is' operator
submitted by John_Idol 4 months, 2 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — The C# 'is' operator looks like a boring little fella at first, but once you get to know it you will eventually appreciate it - it checks if you can safely cast an instance of an object to a type read more...

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SQLServer2008: Workgroup VS Standard
submitted by John_Idol 4 months, 4 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — You might be in doubt when choosing between SQLServer2008 Standard or Workgroup edition - here's a list of the differences bewteen the two. read more...

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Google Chrome Drawbacks (for lazy developers)
submitted by John_Idol 4 months, 5 days ago

dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com — If as a user and software engineer I am nothing less than aroused by Google Chrome release, as a mere nitty-gritty developer I am somewhat worried about the fact that we'll have to bitch with yet another browser in order to produce cross-browser web apps. read more...

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