It’s ok to decouple your design from your implementation, as long as you eventually get to the implementation.

I’ve been so frustrated with the lack of a flexible way to just display the output of a raw SQL Query via SharePoint so I wrote one.
At first I thought I didn’t need parameters, but I was wrong. Everyone needs parameters, or else it’s not all that useful. Of course, that [...]

So, I made one, except I posted it on CodeProject instead of this blog. I figured with this thing I wanted to get a lot of people in the audience. Not to mention that makes free advertising for me and my blog anyway.

Man, just when I thought I was starting to get the hang of LINQ-to-SQL and knowing what kind of cool features it has, I ran into some interesting problems. For one the DataContext needs to have an ‘appropriate lifetime’ which means you have to play around with it, there aren’t real standards. The [...]

Recently recovered from an incident involving the slow and painful death of a MS Exchange Server. Right smack in the middle of the day, with some 800 mailboxes on that one host. We restored the mail stores to another Exchange Server, and ran a hack script to go and correct the homeMDB, homeMTA, and [...]

I’ve been orchestrating a move from an old SQL 2000 database to a SQL 2k5 DB host. Most of the dbs are in use somewhere by some application or other, and I can’t tell by looking at it just what they are. One of the things I’ll need to do is contact all of the [...]

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html
I have been preaching things like this for a long time, but Steve here is a bit more fluent about explaining it. I’ll not try to turn you off to the ideas presented here by summarizing it before you read it. Honestly, it’s the perfect expression of a relatively amorphous emotion I’ve had about [...]

I’ve heard from all sides lately about how there is a growing problem with ‘Dirty Data’…
What is Dirty Data? According to IBM, and various other folks, Dirty Data is data that is extracted from the real world that cannot be nicely integrated into relational models because it’s not organized, or doesn’t fit a particular [...]

I mentioned in the middle of one of my other posts that I was preparing an article on Ruby. I sort of alluded to the fact that I’d post a link, so I suppose I’ll do that now, (although it’s more likely that you’ve come to this blog FROM the article than the other [...]

Forget everything you know about storing data. Particularly the bits about retrieving it after you’ve stored it. I said forget it, and I know you didn’t. So, try again, forget it.
Rather than try to start by comparing this method to what you already know how to do, I’m going to just pretend [...]