Monthly Archives: November 2007
links for 2007-11-29
The Black Art of Writing a SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Add-In Nifty guide to writing a ssms add in. Bonus: he gives you an addin that does fuzzy searching on db objects (tags: sqlserver tools visual.studio visualstudio plugin) How to turn your rails site into an OAuth Provider OAuth is the great new standard [...]
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Best sentence I read this morning
“A few intellectually rigorous killjoys argued that any explanation to which humans could relate was probably anthropomorhpic nonsense, but nobody invited them onto talk shows.” From Greg Egan‘s Quarantine, which I am currently reading.
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links for 2007-11-28
Blinq Prototype : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site Generates ASP.NET websites for CRUD based on DB schema. Point Blinq at a SQL DB and it creates a website with sorted and paged data CRUD pages with table relationships. No writing SQL, LINQ generates optimized queries that request just relevant data. (tags: .net linq development asp.net [...]
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Books: Supercapitalism
Robert Reich wrote a very surprising book on the interplay of capitalism and democracy. His argument is that we’re seeing a lot of problems in our democracy because we have demanded too much of corporations. If, instead, we strip away some of our fiction that corporations are people, we won’t expect them to be noble, [...]
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links for 2007-11-27
Download LINQPad Shiny. LINQPad supports everything in C# 3.0 and Framework 3.5: * LINQ to SQL * LINQ to Objects * LINQ to XML Comes preloaded with 200 examples from C# 3.0 in a Nutshell. It is free and needs no installation (tags: c# free freeware linq programming development download tools .net sql functional.programming) Facebook [...]
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Flickr is pro hell.
I read about flickr’s new places feature and started playing around with it. They must be satanists. Flickr makes hell look good. Then I thought I’d have a look around some other mythical locations. Flickr knows that heaven isn’t in this world, but thinks paradise is closer to home!
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links for 2007-11-17
Cheese Choux Pastries Filled with Mushrooms in Madeira from Delia Online Sam wants this dinner – I’ll cook it for her next time I work from home. (tags: todo food recipe recipes)
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Money: What happened to the markets in August
I’ve been looking for a simple way to explain what happened to my friends, and I think Statler and Waldorf here nail it.
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links for 2007-11-09
Ronnie the Rapist HUGE muckrake on Reagan. It’s got it all: Promiscuity( Nancy and Ron), racketeering, and even rape. Interviews with the girl he raped, the girls he got pregnant and ditched. best bits near the end. Whew! (tags: politics rape controversy) Announcing AutoTest.NET 0.1 Autotest is a little command line utility that sits next [...]
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links for 2007-11-30