I don't know why I hadn't taken the time to do this before, but I just invested 5 minutes into SQL Profiler to make my life much easier when debugging stored procedures. When I'm faced with stored procedure debugging, especially procedures that take awhile to run, or require a series... [Read More]

I believe that my video card woes have finally come to an end.  As I discussed, the key ended up being my RAM, and not the cards.  Ultimately, I guess I can't use 4GB RAM + 2 video cards on Vista 64-bit.  This is good to know since I have... [Read More]

This has always been one of my favorite Dilbert strips.  Why?  Because in our field, it's true.  Many times I've spent more time figuring out what to call something than I spent actually developing it. This week, I've been gathering ideas from team members on how to name some methods... [Read More]

I am actually doing a little coding today, woot!  Except, I haven't gotten NANTRunner to run on my Vista 64-bit workstation yet.  I need to use this in order to correctly build the solution. Running any build target from NANTRunner (even an empty one) was yielding this result:   By... [Read More]

I said in my last post that I was going to try yanking out a stick of RAM.  I had seen some mention of this in some message boards.  I'm either really happy or really sad (undecided) to report that this seemed to address the issue (for the most part).... [Read More]