Ben Griswold on July 29th, 2008

The folks I work with are wicked smart.  Go back and read that first sentence again.  This time read it like you are Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting or one of the guys I used to play summer ball with outside of Boston. Fun right?  Anyway, the point is I work with really smart [...]

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Ben Griswold on June 18th, 2008

I suspect every blogger aspires to publish original content.  Unfortunately, in a world where original thoughts/ideas no longer exist, this is virtually impossible.
Maybe I am making this up, but I think it is only a matter of time before thoughts are appropriately republished.  It’s like fashion.  This year’s hip style was trendy in one [...]

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Ben Griswold on August 27th, 2007

My current focus is on stabilizing about a dozen applications which I recently inherited.  By “stabilizing” I mean I am in the process of cleaning up, documenting and fixing somebody else’s code.
These applications have been in existence for years. They were first coded in Classic ASP, then rewritten in .NET 1.1 and finally ported over to 2.0.  A [...]

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Ben Griswold on August 4th, 2007

Over the past 6 months, I’ve subscribed to the “DBTalk” distribution list at work and I’ve really been enjoying it.  Here’s are my top 2 reasons:
1. Though I know there are many .NET coders who also happen to be very capable database designers and developers, I believe that the many of us still have a lot to learn.  [...]

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