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Just a random passing thought…..
In Windows, we call them folders but on *nix we call them directories.
However the catch is in DOS, we also used to call them directories. Somewhere along the way (presumably the switch from Windows 3.1(1) to Windows95) the nomenclature was changed for this entity and it was renamed from a directory [...]

I’ve recently been getting my hands dirty with WPF as a successor to WinForms, and one thing is for sure - its like i’m starting from ground zero, all over again…
One point which i’d heard while watching a screencast, is that working with WPF changes the developer mindset from “here is a visual component i [...]

This is really just a stub post, and should force me to come back and add more detail to the topic.
In a nutshell, be careful if you have parallelism turned ON for your multi-core SQL server as SQL’s internal worker threads can seemingly jam themselves into a deadlock scenario when executing a parallelised (sp?) query.
to [...]

Recent problems with a client website have required me to re-discover a whole lot of performance tid-bits which i’d either long forgot or just plan never knew.
In trying to stress-test the SQL server forming the backend of the website, we ended up exceeding the web-server’s capabilities and it would die with a not-so-nice error citing [...]

As the title suggests, here is my solution for A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13 - Brackets
Your input is a string which is composed from bracket characters. The allowed characters are:’(’, ‘)’, ‘['. ']‘, ‘{’, ‘}’, ‘< ’ and ‘>’. Your mission is to determine whether the brackets structure is legal or not.
Example of a [...]

Wow lots has happened in the last 4 hours. Where do i start?

In order to diagnose a locking/blocking issue on SQL server, start with an sp_who2 to give you the list of active PIDS, and the PIDS blocking requests. Then execute DBCC INPUTBUFFER(<BLOCKING PID>) to find the offending SQL
In order to free space on a [...]

On Saturday I had to take the wife to UTS library so that she could do some research for her masters thesis. With petrol prices being the way they are, and just generally the amount of time it was going to take to go home and come back, I’d decided i was going to pop [...]

Stumbled across a VS.NET power tweak
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In it’s 11th installment in a series of posts of interesting/quirky questions you may (or may not) be asked in a job interview, this series has definitely challenged everything I knew (or thought I knew) about computer science fundamentals and mathematical reasoning.
My response is to the 11th question about summing numbers is below:
PROBLEM:
Given a list [...]

Noone believed me when I introduced them to the Shakespearean programming language, or the whitespace programming language.
Well now believe me when I say that LOLCode is a true language! It allows you harness the power of a thousand teenage script-kiddies, and emanate elegant code such as :
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER [...]