The whole LINQ paradigm is leaving me asking more questions.
Well, maybe there are answers and I just didn't bother looking for nswers that much yet, however the main one that I looking an answer for is:
If we're looking for as much performance optimization as we can - is there a way to control the SQL statetment which is issued as a result of a DLINQ query? How am I supposed to optimize the database if I don't know what the actual query that's going to be running against it is?
Monday, August 6, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Hardware upgrade.
Well, I'm kind of got tired of living with 4 computers in my tiniest place - 2 general purpose PCs, one Media Center PC and one notebook...
so in order to retire both of my general purpose ones, I've decided to get a new PC. It's done now, and this thing is flying! - Intel Q6600 cpu really kicks some serious butt!
I've also installed Beta of Orcas on it, so more updates to follow. By the way, does anyone know when is it gonna be released?
so in order to retire both of my general purpose ones, I've decided to get a new PC. It's done now, and this thing is flying! - Intel Q6600 cpu really kicks some serious butt!
I've also installed Beta of Orcas on it, so more updates to follow. By the way, does anyone know when is it gonna be released?
Monday, July 16, 2007
Math lesson: 1 + 0 = 0?
They say - every day you should learn something new.
Well, I certainly did today.
I would have never thought that if you're concatenating two columns in SQL and one of them is NULL, then... Correct!
Based on server settings the result may very well be NULL!
Now, that is probably a well-known fact, however, logically speaking it doesn't make sense...
Well, I certainly did today.
I would have never thought that if you're concatenating two columns in SQL and one of them is NULL, then... Correct!
Based on server settings the result may very well be NULL!
Now, that is probably a well-known fact, however, logically speaking it doesn't make sense...
Friday, July 6, 2007
You have it, but you can't use it!
So I have this cellphone: Sony Ericsson W810i. It's ok - does what I want it to do. Mostly. However there's a minor annoyance: playlists can be only created from within the phone itself and even after that they are not accessible as files. Bummer. So I was looking into writing my own media player which would support playlitsts the right way, but ran into another issue: this phone doesn't support JSR 234 - Advanced Multimedia Supplements, so for example EQ function won't be supported. I wasn't able to find a native (non Java) SDK either. So the hardware is there, but you can't use it... Do we still live in the 19th century? :-(
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Jamie Cansdale vs Microsoft
This is from the Testdriven.net website:
http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2007/05/31/microsoft-vs-testdriven-net-31-may-2007.aspx
The comments are definitely worth reading also.
I guess this one is a very common point of view which makes sense:
You can't win a legal fight with Microsoft. You'll probably be out of business before it even goes to court, because the legal fees will bankrupt you. In addition, your income (TestDriven.NET) will go down massively, because who wants to buy from a small company that is in a legal fight with Microsoft? No one wants to buy from a company that will be gone in a few months. Also, the intellectual property to your program is owned by your company. If you lose the fight, Microsoft might just take the IP over and shelf it away, and then you won't have access and can't use a single line of code of it anymore.
Fighting this is a huge risk for you, probably one that will cause your company and product to die. Is a fight over principles really worth that?
I would get your lawyer to send Microsoft's lawyer a letter which says that you'll sign if you get a letter stating that your product is not violating the EULA for the non-Express SKUs for VS 2005 and Orcas.
Now here's the Microsoft's point of view on this.
http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2007/05/31/microsoft-vs-testdriven-net-31-may-2007.aspx
The comments are definitely worth reading also.
I guess this one is a very common point of view which makes sense:
You can't win a legal fight with Microsoft. You'll probably be out of business before it even goes to court, because the legal fees will bankrupt you. In addition, your income (TestDriven.NET) will go down massively, because who wants to buy from a small company that is in a legal fight with Microsoft? No one wants to buy from a company that will be gone in a few months. Also, the intellectual property to your program is owned by your company. If you lose the fight, Microsoft might just take the IP over and shelf it away, and then you won't have access and can't use a single line of code of it anymore.
Fighting this is a huge risk for you, probably one that will cause your company and product to die. Is a fight over principles really worth that?
I would get your lawyer to send Microsoft's lawyer a letter which says that you'll sign if you get a letter stating that your product is not violating the EULA for the non-Express SKUs for VS 2005 and Orcas.
Now here's the Microsoft's point of view on this.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
MS's New Concept - Surface Computing.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
An old idea has got a fresh impressive implementation from Microsoft.
Interesting - there's no info for developers whatsoever on this website.
At least I was unable to find any.
An old idea has got a fresh impressive implementation from Microsoft.
Interesting - there's no info for developers whatsoever on this website.
At least I was unable to find any.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Post #1 - Where it All Starts
Hi!
For a longest time I was trying to maintain a technology related blog on livejournal.com, however it looks like this place is a better alternative for this specific purpose. I will still keep my other blog alive for the time being.
Majority of the upcoming entries will be MS related (ASP.NET 2.0, .NET in general, MS SQL Server), however I'll cover other vendors and more general topics occasionally.
For a longest time I was trying to maintain a technology related blog on livejournal.com, however it looks like this place is a better alternative for this specific purpose. I will still keep my other blog alive for the time being.
Majority of the upcoming entries will be MS related (ASP.NET 2.0, .NET in general, MS SQL Server), however I'll cover other vendors and more general topics occasionally.
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