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Monthly Archives: November 2007
New BlackBerry Curve
I am now the proud owner of a BlackBerry Curve cellular smartphone. Purchased off eBay last week, this little darling is going to replace my Pearl which I have just fallen in love with but was really just a BlackBerry … Continue reading
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About Freakin’ Time!
If you are like me and do a lot of SQL programming and database work in Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine, then you know that one of the most annoying things missing from SQL Server Management Studio is code completion … Continue reading
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About Freakin' Time!
If you are like me and do a lot of SQL programming and database work in Microsoft’s SQL Server database engine, then you know that one of the most annoying things missing from SQL Server Management Studio is code completion … Continue reading
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Blackberry Phones Rock
I have had my Blackberry for over a month now and the more I carry it around, the more I love the device. For one thing it does email incredibly well. And since I got my wife one, we have … Continue reading
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Bush, the GOP, and Party Politics
As I find myself moving away from the republican side of things and more towards the libertarian views on the political line, I find that I still do not really like the democrats way of thinking. However, it is “lefters” … Continue reading
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RE: Squandering one of the industry’s best open source talents
Now, one thing that Mr. Asay seems to either a) forget or b) fail to recognize is that the concept of rapid application development (RAD), was pretty much completely non-existent on Linux prior to the Mono stack. Engineering a .Net solution for Linux desktops, Miguel and the rest of the Mono team has successfully brought RAD to Linux in a big way. Several of the more popular Gnome applications are Mono based (Banshee, Tomboy, and Beagle). Continue reading
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