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Blog Off! Says Harry Potter Author, J K Rowling 2007-07-21 04:45:00 The blogging community often gets complaints that the information published is inaccurate, copyrighted or just plain wrong. This week, J K Rowling
, the incredibly successful author of the HarryPotter
series of children's books has hit out against bloggers for publishing details of the final book in the heptilogy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/ Read more:Author
SQL Datetime Formatting Reference 2007-07-20 12:06:00 I had intended to post a handy reference for the various formats that a SQL
Server datetime can be outputted as when converting to a varchar. Luckily for me and the wear and tear on my keyboard, I found one over at ask4sql. Sky has put this together for us.
Date/Time Conversions Read more:Formatting
Orcas Express Versions CTP 2007-07-18 15:20:00 A lot of people knock Microsoft for their anti-competitive attitudes. However, their software does appear to pretty much rule the world just now and recently their obsession with money does seem to have lessened to some degree. (If you ignore the CRM licensing costs that is.)
I have been able to do some business using Microsoft products for next to nothing. I got the Windows XP operating Read more:Express
Time for a new User Interface? 2007-07-17 13:44:00 I used to really like Windows XP until I installed Vista Ultimate. The problem is, I like the aero glass effect of Vista so much that I don't want to revert to XP. But I don't like the way that Microsoft are trying to appeal to the lowest skill level possible.
The biggest problem for me is the pathetic attempt at a backup solution that ships with Vista. Let me get this right, I fork out Read more:Interface
Top Ten Requirements for a Perfect Office 2007-07-16 14:07:00 The perfect office, what a wonderful thought. Where I am employed, the office is far from perfect for a developer. Dilbert's cubicle seems like Utopia by comparison to the open-plan nightmare that I, like many others, face daily.
So what would make for a perfect office environment when the latest programming project is nearing its deadline. Here is my top ten, feel free to add more.
1. Walls Read more:Requirements
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Extracting the Date from a SQL DateTime 2007-07-14 13:13:00 The other day one of my colleagues asked me how to to control the formatting of datetime information in SQL
Server. When I looked at what he was attempting to do, he was converting a datetime to a varchar so that he could extract just the date, lose the time and convert back to a datetime again.
He was doing this in order to trim the time off and leave just the date value. He was worried that
Complicated Government Web Sites 2007-07-13 17:26:00 This week the UK government has attracted criticism that its web sites are too complicated to use. See the story at the BBC News web site for details of the complaint.
You may find it difficult to believe that anybody could criticise the government or, indeed, that they could be involved in any kind of IT blunder but could it really be true? My limited use of the provided resources includes Read more:Government
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Deadlines, Overtime and Undertime 2007-07-22 12:17:00 I am a big believer in gathering statistical information regarding my team's performance. This information is kept as my own little secret. Although the team know exactly what data I collect and measure, the information never leaves the team. Specifically, nobody higher in the food-chain has the option to see it or, in fact, know that it even exists. I do this for several reasons:
The team
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