TelerikTV.com was released this week as a show site for case studies involving Telerik technologies.  Falafel Software is very pleased to have its flag ship product, ActiveFocus, be the first product showcased on the site.  I was interviewed by my friend Cark Franklin, co founder of the very successful .NET Rocks! Internet audio talk show for .NET Developers, for an hour, we discussed the elegance and power of the Telerik radControls and dived into source code to demonstrate the architecture and implementation of these amazing components.

Go view the video today and let us know what you think! :)

This is actually right in the SQL Server Books Online, but not easily found. Given a temp table named #temp:

if ( object_id( 'tempdb..#temp' ) is null )
    -- table doesn't exist
else
    -- table exists

Here is an interesting article on a way to turn many looping row-based operations into set-based ones: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/TSQL/62867/

I think the idea is a clever one, and I love the "Row By Agonizing Row" (RBAR) acronym!

I'm a big fan of the Opera browser for its speed and excellent out-of-the-box functionality. One of the few things I have been willing to concede that it was lacking was a good interactive debugger like FireBug, until now. Opera Dragonfly has arrived!