Ben Griswold on May 13th, 2009

Let’s say you are viewing results in Enterprise Manager or the SQL Server Management Tools and you really want to update a cell will a NULL value.  Sure you could script it.  Heck, you’re welcome to wrap the one line script in a Transaction and produce a rollback script as well if you’d like.  But, [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 11th, 2009

I was just speaking with a coworker about the tool I used to mockup screens in a recent requirements document.  If you aren’t familiar with Balsamiq Mockups, you are missing out.  Maybe you are responsible for application UI design or you simply like to sketch out your screens before you develop them?  If so, take [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 1st, 2009

I mentioned my Functional Programming Presentation a while back and promised to provide more detail. In response, I’m sharing my slide deck in a quick series of posts.  Here’s the last part of the series.
In case you missed them, here are links to the complete series:

Functional Programming – Part 1
Functional Programming – Part [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 1st, 2009

I mentioned my Functional Programming Presentation a while back and promised to provide more detail. In response, I’m sharing my slide deck in a quick series of posts.  Here’s the eighth part of the series – we’re almost there. If you are just joining us, jump back to Part 1 of the Functional Programming Series. [...]

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