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July 2004 - Posts

Idea of the day #1 - versioning via alternate data streams

A (relatively) little known feature of NTFS is its ability to support multiple data streams in a single file (SysInternals has a little about it here, but I'm sure Google would oblige with the full lowdown...). It recently occurred to me that these could Read More
posted Friday, July 30, 2004 9:03 AM by pdbartlett | 6 Comments
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WikisGalore

As more and more wikis are springing up, I thought it was about time I produced I categorised list of those I know about: Blikis BartyBliki Derek Lakin  Martin Fowler SnipSnap Development AjaxPatterns BorgWorX Channel9 CppUnit  Read More
posted Friday, July 30, 2004 8:35 AM by pdbartlett | 15 Comments
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Tombstone generator

David Findley has posted about a tombstone generator, and also included an image lamenting the passing of some notable (notorious?) MS products. Now if only I could come up with something humorous but tasteful... Read More
posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:58 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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WSE resources

Joseph Cooney has posted a whole bunch of WSE links. So much to read, so little time :( Read More
posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:38 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Root namespaces "fix"

Bill McCarthy points out which file needs "hacking" to change the default namespace selection logic for VB.NET 2003 (e.g. to include your company name). I'll update this if I figure out the C# and/or Express variants... Read More
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 9:01 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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More on mixing forms and windows security in ASP.NET

Looks like Craig Andera has a new take on this. Haven't yet had chance to compare it to the one outlined in the MSDN article... Read More
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 8:47 AM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Wiki and DB schemas...

Jason Alexander has posted a couple of queries to build wiki text from SQL server system tables - definitely one to try later today... Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2004 11:16 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Picasa

Stumbled across this free digital photo management tool that Google now owns, and am mighty impressed. Managed to de-redeye and "enhance" my backlog of images in record time last night - 180+ in less than an hour! Now I'm not quite so annoyed at Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2004 11:05 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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A long, long time ago...

(No, I'm not going to do a Pat Helland...) ... I mentioned that I thought the .NET SDK was installing the C++ compiler (at the time this was sort of a big deal to me, as the compiler wasn't free). Now Jason Bower has confirmed it, so I wasn't going Read More
posted Friday, July 23, 2004 11:01 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Job Predictor

Tejas pointed this out, so I gave it a try: Paul Bartlett, Your ideal job is a Stunt Person This is somewhat of an improvement over Tejas' result, but I won't mention that here for fear of attracting the "wrong sort" of traffic ;) Read More
posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:05 PM by pdbartlett | 41 Comments
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BlogShares revisited

A little while ago I wrote that I'd started "playing" (if that's the write term) the BlogShares fantasy 'blogs market. On the whole I've found it a bit too easy to make money to really engage my interest, though perhaps I've just got lucky with Read More
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 8:10 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Useful looking MS OLAP resource

Via Hitachi Consulting BI 'blog: If you're using--or thinking about using--Analysis Services, you need to use Mosha's web site.  It's mostly AS2000, but there are a couple of Yukon articles referenced as well. http://www.mosha.com/msolap/index.ht Read More
posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:41 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Another DM-er 'blogging...

Via Fritz: A good friend and colleague Bob Beauchemin is now blogging. Bob is a fountain of information on anything database related, going all the way back to stone tablet databases :) Subscribed! This is great news! And well timed (from my point of Read More
posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:28 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Temporal anomaly

[WARNING - A bit of a Friday post...] I've liked Kirsty MacColl's music for a long time. A bit like with Del Amitri, I liked a lot of the songs without even knowing who sang them. However, since I've stopped listening to The Dubliners "out loud" (after Read More
posted Friday, July 09, 2004 1:35 PM by pdbartlett | 4 Comments
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Matt Pietrek blogging

Via Sriram: Yup - this is THE Matt Pietrek (of Numega and those amazingly complex MSDN articles fame) who has started blogging. With Raymond Chen and this guy together in the blogging world, you can be sure to read some high-quality stuff Now this was Read More
posted Friday, July 09, 2004 8:25 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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A new word: archiconjecture

The new terminology definitely raised a smile - but I'm not sure I agree with the whole post... Read More
posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:55 AM by pdbartlett | 5 Comments
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FlexWiki tip

Fairly obviously you could use wiki properties to sort you topics into categories, e.g.:Category: FlexWiki tips If, however, you were to use:Category: "FlexWiki tips":http://<YOUR-MACHINE>/<FLEXWIKI-LOCATION>/search.aspx?namespace=<WHATEVER>&search=Category%3A+%22FlexWiki+tips%22 Read More
posted Friday, July 02, 2004 3:21 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Finally a WhaTBI? update...

Have posted the first installment of my WhaTBI? thoughts as a BartyBliki article: WhatbiDataSources Read More
posted Friday, July 02, 2004 1:57 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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RTFR - read the f****** readme

Well, I can't be the only one not writing about Whidbey now, can I, so here goes with my sub-optimal installation guide: 1. Try to install SSE and find it depends on the the v2.0 runtime2. Try to install v2.0 SDK (must include the runtime, surely) and Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:36 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Physics vs. CS

Via KC: If you'd ever considered Physics over CS... You might want to think again. (Side note: at one point, the team of people who were in charge of monitoring Microsoft's Exchange servers and investigating any issues found all had advanced degrees Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:56 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Does VB really need operator overloading?

Now I'm no language zealot (or any other kind, I hope), and in fact have done quite a bit of work with VB and VBS in the past, but the idea of adding operator overloading to VB.NET (see Duncan's post, amongst others) just grates too much with Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:57 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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More testing goodness from Jonathan de Halleux

Via Jonathan de Halleux: TestFu is a collection of framework that can help the tester to build data generator, state machines, grammars, etc... TestFu v0.1 contains: the Production Grammar Framework, rule based generic generators, the Read More
posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:49 AM by pdbartlett | 4 Comments
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