• A Decade Remembered

    calendar Dec 17, 2019 · 1 min read · career  ·
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    This blog has not seen nearly as much love as I intended.  To start fixing that I'm going to celebrate the 2020 milestone with a 2009-2019 challenge for my career.  I'll be posting one standout issue from each year over the coming days.
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  • Foot = Shot

    calendar Jun 26, 2012 · 1 min read · development databases  ·
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    Things never to do again:
    Do not under any circumstance use SELECT DISTINCT to return unique results from a database because a subquery or join is causing duplicate rows.  You are getting duplicate rows because the subquery or join isn't as accurate as it needs to be... stop using this as a quick fix it only causes …
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  • The .NET ObjectDataSource and Me

    calendar Jun 5, 2012 · 4 min read · dotnet development  ·
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    I've recently decided that I'm a .NET developer. Then I got some people to pay me to be a .NET developer. All in all I'm happier writing code than I was fixing servers and networks but sometimes programming just drives me nuts. Today's rant is about the ObjectDataSource in .NET... and really datasource objects in …
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