September 2003 - Posts

posted Friday, September 26, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Arrays in SQL

Just came across this link around array handling in SQL Server. Read More
posted Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Googling from IE

I'm always wanting to pick up an arbitrary piece of text in IE and launch a google search for it without having to type it in again. As an aside, I'm always wanting to do this outside of IE (e.g. in Word, Outlook, notepad, etc.). I'm sure it's fairly Read More
posted Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

2 are better than 1

Interesting article from Microsoft Research here about the productivity gains to be made from multiple monitors. More and more desks that I pass these days have 2 screens for each developer and, certainly, some of the development environments are pretty Read More
posted Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 3 Comments

BizTalk 2004

I've been playing with the BizTalk 2004 beta that shipped with MSDN a few weeks (months? surely not!) ago and it's been pretty positive so far. I've had quite a bit of experience with 2000 and 2002 and the new version is looking like a big leap forward. Read More
posted Friday, September 19, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Windows Forms

Picked up Chris Sells'new Windows Forms book (check out http://www.sellsbrothers.com) today - haven't had a chance to look at it just yet but from a quick flick through the chapters it looks pretty cool. It's also one of the few technical books I've seen Read More
posted Monday, September 15, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PDC Bloggers

Added this site to the PDC bloggers site up here Read More
posted Monday, September 15, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

New PC

I spent a long time over the weekend trying to get my new PC all built and installed with software. In our household the PC is shared so it's a real decision as to whether to go with a single installation or whether to go for a dual-boot config. I really Read More
posted Friday, September 12, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

PCs

I'm currently building a new PC (thought it was about time to treat myself to a better machine at home) and I want it to be quiet so I went out and got myself one of these and spent a bit of time cramming foam into my PC case (heat?) in order to try and Read More
posted Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

TypePad

I've been looking at TypePad and it certainly looks like an attractive package with people producing some great looking (although naturally that might not be the point of a blog) content up there. This led me onto thinking that more blogs should be multi-person Read More
posted Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

U.S. & Them

Really liked this link - sometimes the Onion really gets me. Read More
posted Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Generality

There's a great piece in this interview with Anders Hejlsberg where Anders gives an analogy of developers trying to meet a functional requirement with an overly generic approach (the example that he gives is of a calendar control). This seemed to sum Read More
posted Monday, September 08, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Slow at business

so, it's not often that I have what I'd call a 'business' idea in the sense of coming up with something that might actually make money but I was driving home on Friday after a long week of performance work in labs and my mind was wandering around when Read More
posted Monday, September 08, 2003 12:00 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Multiple blog clients

Currently puzzling over what the best way is to run SharpReader on my desktop at home, my laptop and my desktop at work and yet have the tool understand what I have and haven't read. At the moment I keep getting a deja vu feeling when I move from my desktop Read More