I’m trying to figure out exactly how many copies of what edition of what version of SQL Server we have in the enterprise. Normally I just use the inventory tools in Altiris for this sort of thing, because I have product names and version numbers and all that. The only trouble is, THERE [...]

One of the most annoying, and most unnervingly frustrating things about dealing with web-applications in real life is dealing with printed documents. In my opinion printed documents are obsolete, but customers might disagree. You can’t rely at all on the browser to print using the File menu for you, because you can’t guarantee [...]

Ok, here’s what I’m going to do… Before I had written a compiler for my own query language that is designed to do object persistence on an associative database… I have found now that it would be nice if I could write full fledged ’stored procedures’ and shell scripts that would allow me [...]