Alright, welcome to the inaugural video post from my blog. Due to several requests over twitter, comments, etc, I decided to use my Pluralsight recording setup to record myself actually coding for this series instead of just posting a lot of snippets of code. It was actually a good bit of fun and sort of…
I’ll admit as I type the first sentence of this post that I don’t know whether this will conclude a two-part “mini-series” or whether I’ll feel compelled to write further posts. But I wanted to write the follow up that I hinted at to the post I wrote about introversion for programmers (well, specifically me)….
For the first post in this series, I’m responding to an email I received asking for help writing an application that allows its users to play a game of chess, with specific emphasis on a feature in which players could see which moves were available for a given piece. The emailer cited a couple of…
In SQL Server management studio, all of objects in the database are listed in the object explorer in the format [schema].[object]. In large databases of the legacy variety, it’s not uncommon to find that the only schema for application tables/views/sprocs is dbo. In this case, navigating to the object you want requires the infuriating step…
Negative feedback is something with which we all have to contend, and probably on a fairly regular basis. It comes in a whole lot of forms with varying degrees of merit or importance: official performance reviews, talks with coworkers, miscellaneous gossip, heated discussion with loved ones, and even things like comments on a blog post…
