I went to Jetbrains day in Malmö Sweden last weekend, but that might have been obvious from the title above. Malmö Sweden is a 1 hour 30 minute flight for me and then a 20 minute train ride. So not that obvious. But since I use some of their products very well I decided to go anyway. All the sessions were streamed live so I guess you guys saw all of them.
This is an archive of the posts published to LessThanDot from 2008 to 2018, over a decade of useful content. While we're no longer adding new content, we still receive a lot of visitors and wanted to make sure the content didn't disappear forever.
Technology is a wonderful tool that should make all of our lives better – at least until Skynet takes over. But then I am hoping that this article will serve me in good stead with our new superior overlords. 😀 The problem, as you may have guessed by now, is that far too often we find that technology often frustrates us as much as it serves to benefit. Beyond the work software that we use that simply never functions as well as we think it should (Microsoft Office, anyone?
Over the past couple weeks you may have noticed that LessThanDot was completely down. I know we did. We’re working on solutions to our missing DR plan and shoring up some holes we found in our infrastructure (we had backups, they were just a little, er, stale). Cue jokes about how a group with professional developers, architects, project managers, managers, consultants, etc didn’t have a DR plan. Rest assured, this site means a lot to us (the founders), us (the people who blog here), and us (the people who get information or look up resources here).
At work we decided to start a book club, we pick a book, every week we decide how much we will read. After the week is over, we meet and then discuss what we read. We discuss what we liked, what we didn’t like and also what we learned. Why should I have all the fun with this? I figured why not make it a virtual book club, we pick a SQL Server book and then we figure out how much we will read in a week, after the week is over we can discuss.
Do you decide to use a certain technology because it is better or do you decide to use a certain technology because your company already is using this product and has some experience with it? What is nepotism anyway? From Wikipedia Nepotism is favoritism granted in politics or business to relatives regardless of merit. The term originated with the assignment of nephews to cardinal positions by Catholic popes and bishops.
With the release of the revamped Integration Services in SQL Server 2012, a bunch of new deployment methods were introduced for the project deployment model. My article SSIS Deployments with SQL Server 2012 gives an overview of these deployment methods. One of these methods is using PowerShell to deploy your project to the SSIS Catalog. Matt Masson (blog | twitter) has an excellent blog post on the subject: Publish to SSIS Catalog using PowerShell.
My friend Ted Krueger wrote a blogpost yesterday about Microsoft isn’t the devil. And I wasn’t going to reply to much because I think these are useless debates anyway. He has his opinion and I have mine, and I don’t want him to agree with me. And of course Microsoft can’t be a devil since they don’t really exist. They are a company. A company is run by people.
The August 2013 PASSMN is going to be another outstanding event! If you are in the Twin Cities area this coming Tuesday, August 20th, you’ll want to make sure you have this is on your calendar. PASSMN is excited to welcome Minnesota and SQLSkills’ own, Joseph Sack (Blog | Twitter)! Joe is a SQL Server MVP and SQL Server 2008 Microsoft Certified Master. Before his time with SQLSkills, Joe worked for Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer and managed the SQL Server MCM program.
Something I’ve always had an issue with is people that bash and flame Microsoft products. Constructive criticism is fine. We all should be providing feedback about how a product is designed, setup, installs, and even how it performs. This feedback is critical to how a business sets its development paths. However, criticism and sheer whining in the form of bashing is an absolutely useless act that never gets anything accomplished. This is mostly due to the fact, the people that may be listening, will simply stop listening after a short time.
In version 0.9.2 and earlier, SquishIt had two options for handling browser cache invalidation. The default behavior was to append the hash to the query string, and the other was to include the hash in the combined filename. While both got the job done, they both came with advantages and disadvantages. This post will attempt to cover those while also introducing a third option that is available starting in version 0.