Anyone from outside the US can safely ignore this post, though the details may provide a scary glimpse of what may be coming in your fair countries as well. I try not to get into politics too much, but as this bill could effect the livelihoods of several of our readers I felt this was worth discussing. I may not be following the right people on twitter, but I have not heard much discussion of the bill outside some of my libertarian-leaning friends.

Codemash is an amazing event with an amazing number of sessions and some amazingly good presenters. CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies, and technology trends in a variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .Net, Ruby, Python and PHP. The keynote will be be done by Ted Neward. It used to be easy: building an ‘enterprise’ app meant using EJB, or COM+, or Web Services.

Introduction I use the acrobat reader activex control to show pdf’s in my winforms application. And yesterday I was bitching about it on twitter because it for some reason was blocking a folder on my buildserver every time I ran a build. At that point in time I could either choose to avoid the tests that made this happen or just use a hammer and get rid of the adobe acrobat reader at the end of my build.

Have you been watching Brent Ozar PLF’s Technology Triage Tuesdays? If you’re not, you should. I’ve been watching for the last couple of months, and every web cast is a golden nugget of information. However, don’t feel blue for missing out on this great opportunity because Brent, Jeremiah, Kendra, and Tim record each webcast and post it on their site, BrentOzar.com. Here’s a few of the ones that I’ve watched that I’ve enjoyed and learned a lot:

Introduction So this week I discovered I did a really stupid thing and this seems to happen on a regular basis to. It usually involves threads and the UI. Let me try to explain how stupid I was. The beginning bit Every story has a beginning and an end and you usually start of in the beginning without threads. Let’s say I have 2 timer processes I want to run and I want to show the output of those processes on a form.

![][1] It’s TSQL Tuesday #024! It’s been two years and the monthly blog party is going strong. Thanks to Brad Schulz for hosting this month! This month’s topic is “Prox n’ Funx”. I am going to show something that frustrates me, and, from what I see on forums, a lot of other people. When building a dataset in Reporting Services that calls a stored procedure, if the stored procedure has multiple result sets, only the first is returned.

SQL Saturday in Minnesota is upon us. Only a few more days and I’ll be heading to Minnesota and have a chance to hang out with many of my good friends as well as meet hundreds of other SQL Server professionals. Last year I wasn’t able to make this event due to a change in jobs. This year, I’m happy to not only be making the event but see my current employers, Magenic Technologies, on the sponsor list.

Tom LaRock (blog | twitter) is running his monthly #mememonday challenge today. I didn’t think I’d have time for a blog post, since I’m returning from a week of vacation, but the topic is close to my heart and I wanted to put together something. What does #sqlfamily mean to you? family: noun, a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.

Introduction A while ago I wrote about Roboguice. I used 1.1 way back then. Now I switched to version 2.0 beta 2. The changes First of all we need a few new jars. I found out the hard way that I needed 4. You can find the latest beta on maven. You can find the Guice 3.0 noaop jar on code.google.com. The javax.inject.jar can also be found on code.

Introduction Bitwise operations are fun and binary math can be really useful, if you know how. At least you should know why a computer is much faster at calculations with floating point numbers than fixed point numbers. And if you don’t know why that is, you should stop all programming work right now and go and read up on it, it’s important (for me anyway). So I digressed, this post is not about floating point calculations.