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I’ve done this basic optimization of SQL Server performance problems a few times now, so I jotted down the basic steps and posted it as an article:  Why is SQL Server So Slow?

We bought a Centrios 7” Digital Photo Frame for someone (can’t say who.. dunno who’s reading) for Christmas.  It’s not an expensive photo frame, but it has some quirks.. one of which is that it uses the wrong aspect ratio to display images.  Pretty strange for a digital photo product, but there you have it.  […]

The Ottawa Events site is doing pretty well; it’s fun watching a new website start up as users discover it and start using it.  Seeing the first search hits from Google, MSN, Yahoo.  One thing I want to do with this site (and the instances of this site that exist for other communities like Brantford […]

Now I just need to convince the folks at work to upgrade…

Max Day 2 is winding down. Tonight Macromedia has a special event at Disney’s California Adventure. Tomorrow’s the last day, and then it’s back to Ottawa. They’re replacing the Max theme on the Anaheim Convention Center with a Herbalife theme; I guess that’s the next convention. Other folks are talking about Max here. The sessions […]

Just went to a talk at Max by Gary Grossman about Flash Player 8.5 (not released yet) and the changes they’re making. ActionScript is becoming a (more) strongly typed language. You’ll be able to declare variables with type, and have the runtime know the type of the object (AS2 let you declare the type, and […]

I’ve had a pretty good history of predicting whether a particular technology was going to survive the test of time or not. Building an app on an API that later becomes deprecated (or more likely, is no longer being developed) is no fun. So I started building a list of Microsoft’s new APIs so I […]

So here’s Eric’s comments on Joel’s article, “Hitting the High Notes”, where he compares a good soloist to a good choir. It’s a good read. One point I want to add. In the software world, you need team players and you need stars. But I find it works best when these folks are not on […]

The current XFA Specification is available online. XFA is XML Forms Architecture, and it’s the document format that LiveCycle Designer (the product I work on) creates.