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The Internet offers any numbers of ways to learn about software development, but it is difficult to do on a Web page the sort of thing that a good book can do.
What do...
The LiveStrong Challenge is a series of rides designed to support the work of the Lance Armstrong Foundation. For those of you who do not know, the Lance Armstrong Foundation supports folks livi...
Glenn Johnson is the author of Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications - Advanced Topics. He has perhaps more MS certifications than anyone else I know. From the interview: Doug: I am ...
If you read my recent article on surviving cancer as a Software Developer and think the topic deserves attention at Tech Ed, vote here for the Geeks with Cancer and Other Serious Diseases Birds o...
Fixing Access Annoyancesby Phil Mitchell and Evan CallahanISBN 0-596-00852-x Admit it. Even if you are a hard core SQL Server person, now and again, you find yourself dealing with Microsoft Acce...
I just had an article posted on Simple-Talk.com about posting to forums. Here it is. This is part of a continuing series on career development, and how to keep up in a fast moving software devel...
Tom Moreau is an interesting guy. Who else in the software business do you know who has an advanced degree in Experimental Space Science? Doug: I notice you have a doctorate. Could I ask what y...
No, I am not gay - not that there is anything wrong with that. I am Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor. My new article, Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor: A Guide for Software Developers is now...
An article I did on career development in general, and attending conferences in particular, has just been posted on Simple-Talk.com. As "conference season" begins, this article can help ...
The Database Geek of the Week is back from vacation! Well, actually, 3 weeks or so in the hospital is not technically a vacation, but you know what I mean. Michael is a Program Manager at ...
Let me preface this by saying that I am sick. Not a little sick, like a cold or the flu, but really sick. Life threatening sick. Thus, my level of patience with the managed care syst...
I will be admitted to a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland (St. Agnes) for some fairly serious surgery on Wednesday, January 4th. St. Agnes is a small hospital, but does a large number of the surge...
Dave Sussman is an author, trainer, and ASP Insider. He has most recently worked on a book covering ADO.NET and Sustem.Xml in .NET 2.0. From the interview: Doug: What do you think ab...
Peter DeBetta as an author, consultant and trainer. He knows SQL Server, and he talks about it in my recent interview: Doug: How did you get involved with writing books Peter: I was teaching a ...
Scott Forsyth has a job that is out of the ordinary for database geeks, but what he does can impact many of us. Scott is the director of IT for ORCS Web, a premier Web Hosting company. Sco...
Adam Machanic is this week's Database Geek of the Week. Adam is an independent consultant, as well as a co-author of a SQL Server 2005 book. From the interview: Doug: Have you done much w...
My latest book, Programming Microsoft Web Forms, is now out, and I have a copy right in my hands! If you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, this is likely not the book for you (take a look at...
Jim Hoffman is the rarest of technical people. After working for a long time as a heavy duty database geek, he was able to move into a management role and continue his success in that arena.&nbs...
PromptSQL is one of those products that you see and say to yourself, "If Damian Mehers can create Intellisense for Query Analyzer and Visual Studio for SQL code entry, how come Microsoft can't" ...
Linchi Shea is an author as well as a SQL Server MVP specialixing in SQL Server administration in the enterprise. Here is one of the questions from the interview: Doug: What do you think about ...
Kent Tegels is this week's Database Geek of the Week. Kent is the Geek's Geek in many respects. He takes part actively in the community, especially with his blog, Enjoy Every Sandwich.&nbs...
I am testing a Beta 2 application in a much more recent build. Turns out there were a number of problems. First, a user control that is dynamically loaded caused a compilation problem, say...
Red Gate Software has released a beta of a SQL Dependency Viewer. Download is here. Works independent of the SysDepends table. I would like some way to re-arrange objects (so that I could ...
In part 3 of a series, I talk about things you can do to minimize the need to actually use those SQL Server backups you are carefully creating. You are carefully creating backups, right Read mor...
Gary is an Oracle guy, who often works with .NET, and sometimes works with SQL Server or even Access. I ran across Gary on a mail list for the Cycling group at my local church. Geeks are all aro...
When it comes to SQL Server, I am really a bit of a T-SQL man. Sure, I use ADO.NET, and in a pinch can use related tools, but what I really enjoy is seeing what I can do with pure Transact SQL. That i...
Richard Hundhausen has made his name as an author and trainer, teaching quite a number of courses on Microsoft related topics, including ADO.NET and SQL Server. From the interview: Doug: You se...
Here is an article on SQL Server Backup. In this second part of this series, I talk about the sort of things that can go wrong, as well as the possible costs involved with restricting the amount...
Douglas McDowell is the Database Geek of the Week this week. Douglas (and you have to like that first name...) is a mentor, solution architect and founder of Atlanta.mdf, a SQL Server User Group...
Though the exact title is news to me (I was thinking Streamlined Web Forms Developement), Bookpool apparently is getting ready to sell my next book (apparently Programming Microsoft Web Forms). http:/...
This week, I have posted a very cool Database Geek of the Week Interview with Rob Howard. From the interview: Doug: Can you think of a cool tip or trick for the developers who will be working w...
Shawn Wildermuth is the ADO Guy, and he is now the Database Geek of the Week! Doug: Where in the development world do you think XML best fits What have you used it for, in addition to web services Sh...
Bill Vaughn (of the "Hitchhikers Guide..." books fame) is this week's Database Geek of the Week. Bill has been in the computer biz quite a while, and his insights into early days at Microsoft,...
Working in mrimarily .NET shops, SQL Server seems in some ways to define the database universe. As it happens, there are lots of other database products out there. Pervasive SQL (based upo...
Bob Beauchemin is this week's Database Geek of the Week. Bob is an author and a teacher, as well as a consultant when time allows. His most recent book is A First Look at SQL Server 2005 f...
A busy day, with a second article up on the Web (also in print in the July 2005 Dr. Dobb's Journal). This one is on the Web here, though it requires a CMP Developers Network membership to read t...
Rebecca Riordan is clearly a database geek. She has written a number of books, including Seeing Data, a book that explains how to present data to users in the most effective way. She ...
I first met Don Demsak at one of the many User Group meetings that he is involved with (or perhaps it was a Geek Dinner - my memory for those sort of details is quite bad). Don is a fixture at s...
I spent about an hour that I can never get back today tracking down a problem with a stored procedure I was writing. The SP was a simple SAVE SP, with a test for existance of a row, and then an ...
This week, Wally McClure is the Database Geek of the Week on www.simple-talk.com. You can see the full interview here. Wally has just completed a new book on ADO.NET 2.0. You c...
Hilary is an expert in SQL Server replication, and he has written an entire book on the topic. This is an area that I wish I was better at managing, and an area I am certain will continue to gro...
I have been at a conference this week, and so have been placing my laptop on standby rather than shutting down each time. I also have 2 clients with incompatible VPN software. The software...
I do not know Euan Garden personally, however he clearly fits the requirements of being a Database Geek of the Week. He works for Microsoft on SQL Tools (he is a Microsoft Group Program Manager ...
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