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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Development Abstraction Layer
The Development Abstraction Layer - Joel on Software
This really made me smile, particularly the quote "Management's primary responsibility to create the illusion that a software …
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Hiring for Potential
Heather Leigh of Microsoft has an interesting few words to say regarding hiring for potential. Well, most of the article isn't directly about hiring for potential, but it's the bit that caught my eye. …
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Do it, Delegate it or Dump it
Sure I've waffled about this before, but there's an article on StickyMinds.com titled "Win-Win Delegation" in which the most important (to my mind) point is "Delegate Authority with the Task". There' …
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Done, done and done!
[StickyMinds.com] Done and DONE-done - The Magic of Completion Criteria
Another great article from stickminds, which shows the importance of defining requirements, in this instance …
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"Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API."
For a few weeks now my computer has been throwing up the message "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API." every now and then when I try to hibernate it. No rhyme, no reason, just a …
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Project Management
Grand Designs (on Channel 4 on November 2nd 2005) was all about a build in Belfast. After having seen the organised chaos that is many of the other builds that Grand Designs has showcased, this one …
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Developer (& Tester!) Quality
Joel of Joel on Software posted an interesting entry a while ago that makes a point about time vs developer resource.
The part I'm interested in starts about a third of the way …
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Managing...
Time -- Time Management Tips for Developers
Collect all tasks in a to-do list -- I started doing this fairly recently (in part prompted by an internally delivered training course I …
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What are the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views?
They're fantastically useful things which make it easy to access metadata in SQL Server in a (theoretically!) version agnostic manner. I've mentioned them (or similar) in SQL Server 2005: sysXXXX …
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Writing Bug Reports / Defects
Spurred by: The Perfect Bug
Having read this blog entry and found it really rather interesting, it's got me thinking about Severity and Priority of defects/bug reports. What's the …