About a year ago, I had an idea for a SQL Server enhancement that I never wrote about.  I crafted a few sample queries that would utilize the feature, and I shared them with some colleagues, but I never wrote an article about it.  Needless to say, it's been in... [Read More]

Over the past few months, I posted several times about my extended MVP Pattern.  Since this was an ill-planned series of posts, I wanted to post a list of the articles involved. Scott Hanselman's post showing off the ASP.NET MVC framework triggered me to finally write about what I had... [Read More]

I've been inserting a few <hr /> tags into posts recently.  In order to do this, I've had to switch to HTML view and move the cursor to the right spot, and type the tag.  Then switch back and reset focus.  Grr! Well, easily enough, I've created a Windows Live... [Read More]

While dealing with customer support after a recent release that contained a few bugs, I've found myself having the following two thoughts very often. The word "work" is part of the word "workaround" for a reason.  As soon as I find a "fun-around" for any issue, I'll let you know. ... [Read More]

Please excuse the fact that I have to use general terms and vague references here.  I hope that this story is entertaining despite the removed specifics. Before a recent release, our software allowed the user to do X.  There was a bug reported that the user shouldn't be able to... [Read More]