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An oldie, but a REAL goodie!

I came across this again today, and couldn’t stop laughing (and pretending I NEVER did that!). Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming Saddest thing about this article, in the comments some “programmers” were too stupid to get the joke.  They ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-24-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Google Feedburner is mucking up links to this blog

If you are subscribed to this blog in feeds.feedburner, be aware that the links to the blog are being rendered incorrectly by Google.  I’m working on it to see if I can make a workaround for their bug.  Use http://www.longcloud.co.nz/Blogs/rss.xml i ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-11-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Firefox is like the Cheese, It Stands Alone!

So one of my friends and former colleagues warned me today that my blog wasn’t working correctly with Google feedburner Link that Google generates (which isn’t really my fault) and that when he used the archive links to pull up the actual entry, h ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-10-09 | 0 Comments | 354 Links to this post

Refactoring in SQL

This entry won’t be much to anyone used to working with sql or refactoring or the With Clause, but sometimes I like to just walk thru how I started and how I ended when refactoring, and SQL can be refactored just like any other type of code. I ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-10-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

AspNet_RegSql like script for usage with SqlAzure

So I’m really starting to do some work with the Azure cloud platform and I’m working on getting MVC running on it.  I followed these excellent hints at “Cloudy in Seattle”. As well as working on Windows Azure running an MVC app, I’m also trying to ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-09-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

My new Monitor Setup (4, count them 4)

So following the advice of Scott Hanselman, I bought a TouchScreen Mimo monitor.  VERY cool. Checkout out my desktop now!  4 monitors (I bet 5 is not far off!)      2 – 24 inch     1- 21 inch     1 – 8 inch touch screen   One ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-07-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post