Monthly Archive: June 2009

I Learned A New Vocabulary Word Today…

I Learned A New Vocabulary Word Today…

Apophallation. Apophallation is a technique resorted to by some species of air-breathing land slugs such as Limax maximus and Ariolimax spp. In these species of hermaphroditic terrestrial gastropod mollusks, after mating, if the slugs cannot successfully separate, a deliberate amputating...

Discovering System.Linq.Expressions

Discovering System.Linq.Expressions

I’m officially a fan: System.Linq.Expressions is one of the coolest namespaces. I’ve been working on a simple workflow engine as an example codebase for exploring different aspects of object oriented programming (inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism, design patterns, etc.) for training purposes....

I Like Jeffrey Palermo’s Prediction…

I Like Jeffrey Palermo’s Prediction…

I’ve been playing around with ASP.NET MVC for about a week now and it does everything right that ASP.NET web forms did so wrong.  I’ve hated ASP.NET web forms with a passion as soon as I realized that the model...

T-SQL MERGE: My New Friend

T-SQL MERGE: My New Friend

As I was catching up on SQL 2008 this morning, I spent some time working with the T-SQL MERGE command, new in SQL 2008. Most of the blogs and examples online are a bit terse, so I decided to write...

QOTD

QOTD

A friend passed along a quote the other day: So I just picked up this book today….and found this quote in the forward: “The truth of the matter is, if you need to “save” your job, I can’t help you....