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 Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Learn how to develop for MSSQL using built-in stored procedures (and a few custom ones) as a complete replacement for Visual Studio's Server Explorer.
posted on July 8, 2008  #    by Adam Anderson  Comments [0] Trackback
With projects, as with most other things in life, only one thing is certain, and that is change. This blog talks about how to cope with change using tools like Falafel Software's ActiveFocus.
posted on July 8, 2008  #    by John Waters  Comments [0] Trackback
 Monday, July 07, 2008

Saw this article, The Myth of the Interchangeable Programmer. It runs along the lines of the famous Mythical Man Month book by Fred Books, this time applied to off shoring.

Bottom line is that you may find that one developer may be doing 60% of the work of the team, or three developers 80%, and the more people you add to the team, the more you slow down the people who are actually getting something done. The author thinks that from his own experience, a team of eight is the max. I agree. (obviously, for huge projects, you need several teams, but he elaborates on that too).

It is funny, because a client just told me our rate for a senior WPF engineer was way out of their range, and they were looking to outsource it off shore...good luck to them! This is difficult, leading edge technology, and the kind of area where one good senior architect can do something in a week that could take a team of less experienced people months to do.

posted on July 7, 2008  #    by John Waters  Comments [0] Trackback
 Sunday, June 29, 2008
Falafel Software, Inc. is proud to sponsor Juleah Nusz, a fencer with the United States Fencing Association (USFA). Juleah currently ranks fifth nationally in under-16 women’s epee and 18th in under-19 women’s epee.
posted on June 29, 2008  #    by Lino Tadros  Comments [0] Trackback
 Friday, June 27, 2008
Falafel Software has released its quarterly update of its popular ActiveFocus product management and team collaboration tool. Read more about the latest version.
posted on June 27, 2008  #    by John Waters  Comments [0] Trackback
Read all about the tool that is the talk of the industry, what it does and how Falafel created it...
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posted on June 27, 2008  #    by John Waters  Comments [0] Trackback
 Thursday, June 26, 2008

More information is to follow, for now see Telerik's announcement at http://blogs.telerik.com/Blogs.aspx

posted on June 26, 2008  #    by John Waters  Comments [0] Trackback
The company has been doing some Webinars, with materials distributed in a PDF format. I got tasked the other day with developing the materials for an upcoming session - but I didn't really have a way to create PDF output, just Microsoft Word. "Just", I say, until I googled some phrase like "Microsoft Word PDF".
posted on June 26, 2008  #    by Rick Miller  Comments [0] Trackback
 Monday, June 23, 2008
See a solution for a common problem encountered with the built-in ASP.NET membership controls
posted on June 23, 2008  #    by Adam Anderson  Comments [0] Trackback
 Tuesday, June 17, 2008
What on Earth are SQL Server Hypothetical Indices, where do they come from, and how do you get rid of them?
posted on June 17, 2008  #    by John Waters  Comments [0] Trackback

OK, so I'm a little late to the party. I've been using it for a few days now, and I'm very pleased. Browsing is even faster, and there are new features like the Quick Find address bar that performs full-text searches on every page in your browsing history. Give it a try at www.opera.com/download.

posted on June 17, 2008  #    by Adam Anderson  Comments [0] Trackback
 Monday, June 16, 2008

Lately I've needed to compare the schemas of two or more databases and highlight the differences. Based on internet research, I settled on two contenders: AdeptSQL Diff and Red Gate SQL Compare. Both are reasonably fast. AdeptSQL's UI looks very 16-bit and has limited reporting options. Red Gate's UI is very attractive and offers more reporting options. However, Red Gate's product currently has a bug that considers quoted and unquoted trigger identifiers to be different, even if the identifier itself is the same. This resulted in a large number of false differences, forcing me to go with AdeptSQL for now. If Red Gate can fix this problem, I would be inclined to switch to their product in the future.

posted on June 16, 2008  #    by Adam Anderson  Comments [0] Trackback