“SQL Down Under Code Camp is an annual community-driven event for SQL Server professionals. Each year, well over a hundred DBAs and Developers come together to learn from each other and to network. It is held in October at the Wagga Wagga campus of our friends at Charles Sturt University.” […]
Hi there. I realise that PowerShell is the next logical expansion which combines the utility of batch/command line interfaces with the power of managed code, but here’s a short entry on using loops in traditional batch scripts (just for fun). On a recent project we wanted to execute SQL scripts […]
Hi all.. Sorry about the relative silence, last week was my first week since I finished my last project (which ran from December 08 to July 09). You might say I’m getting accustomed to the quiet (not to mention the free time). The lead up to “tools down” has left […]
Hi All, This is just a quick post to advertise some of the high hopes I have for the upcoming Entity Framework v4 which will ship with Visual Studio 2010. The next version is bumped from v2 to v4 (in order to align with the version of the .Net Framework) […]
Hi Everyone, Well, I’ve just rolled off a large .Net 3.5 project and I have some limited availability until August 1st. So if anyone is in the market for some talented IT skills (in particular SQL Server, .Net 3.5, BizTalk, Web/SOA/WinForms) or broader consulting skills (estimations, forecasts, documentation) or troubleshooting […]
All, On the weekend I upgraded my dSLR’s camera body from the (now ancient & retired) Olympus E-500 to the very new Olympus E-620. The two dSLR bodies couldn’t be further apart in every measurable feature. To give you an idea, I’ve compiled this specification comparison which shows some of […]
There is a very good blog entry located here which lists questions every development team and team leads should ask themselves during development cycles. From the article: Whole team What can we automate? where are we "Reinventing the wheel"? what are the tools that slow us down? what tools can […]
Well, it’s been some time since my last decent technical article. There have been some distractions lately, but I’ll be back on deck with some fresh content shortly. I’ve got some SQL Reporting Services goodness and also some tips and tricks on getting the most out of SQL Integration Services. […]
Well, this week I was routinely contributing to the massive indentations in my forehead (banging my head against my keyboard) due to an old SQL Server favourite.. “An explicit value for the identity column in table ‘[Table]’ can only be specified when a column list is used and IDENTITY_INSERT is […]
There have been frequent not-so-subtle attacks on social media (in particular, blogging and Twitter) by mainstream journalists in recent times and quite frankly, I’m sick of hearing about it. There is hardly a day that goes by without reading the same old boring rhetoric coming from these ‘Traditional News Outlets’ […]
It’s just getting to the point where you have to have to say that it’s pretty much unacceptable for major mainstream software to not support resizable windows. Today I went to adjust the bindings for the default web site on my local IIS 7 service using IIS Manager. Sorry, but […]
Visual Studio is an advanced programming environment for those wishing to develop software for the Microsoft platform. From web applications, mobile phone applications and database analysis projects to Xbox games and windows applications and services – this is the one stop shopping solution. By request.. a shortlist of things I […]
So if you’ve missed it some how, there’s been an interesting clip from Nine Raw – live reports from a shooting in King’s Cross on the weekend. Here’s a link to the NineMSN article on the report. Here’s the original footage: This has quickly shot ‘round the globe courtesy […]
Well, as you might have known, a select few were lucky enough to see the new Star Trek film when it premiered world wide in April 2009. I was, in fact, one of those lucky few (you can read my entries for April to get a feel for what it […]
Hi All.. Finally, after a couple of months of sheer procrastination, I’ve re-launched Aussie Wine Guy® with a new look website. I moved the hosting out to a VPS and gave the site a major face lift. It’s still in blog format, which I’m hoping will attract the attention of […]