Philosophy on Soldiering

This is taken from the book About Face:The Odyssey of an American Warrior.
The author is Col. David "Hack" Hackworth, one...

The Perils of Java Schools

This is great, another rant from Joel, this time on the state of CS Degrees.

I didn't grow up in the...

Last Minute Testing

I've had a new web server for a couple months and I've been slowly testing things as I can in...

Unpatched Microsoft Windows WMF Vulnerability

If you haven't heard by now, there is an unpatched exploit in how
Windows handles WMF files. Since this handling is...

Cute comic

My son ran across this comic and was sure I would enjoy it: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=153
 

SQL Server Connections

I found out today that I will get to attend the SQL Server Magazine Connections conference (part of the DevConnections...

Aggregate queries

Be sure to read my article on SQLServerCentral on building aggregate queries: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/kKellenberger/aggregatequeries.asp

SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant available

Saw this at the book store this evening and picked it up.

SQL Server 2005 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

I'll spend the...

Salary Survey

SQL Server Magazine has just published its annual salary survey.  I don’t really recall how they did it in past...

Crypt Packages for Perl

This is one of those "bang head here" issues. I was trying to install
Net::SSH::Perl, which basically drives SSH through Perl,...