Today, in the pursuit of a free version of SQL Prompt, I visited Red-Gate Software. 

I noticed their slogun “ingeniously simple tools”. SQL Prompt was of course not free (why would I even believe that?), so I did not find what I initially was looking for. Instead I spent a couple of minutes looking at the other tools they were offering. Tools for SQL refactoring, profiling, documentation, diff etc. In my opinion a quite useful lot of SQL utilities.

Then I decided to move over to their forum - and this was what I got:

So, maybe I’m wrong on this one, but “ingeniously simple” doesn’t have to mean it’s “good enough”.

Here’s a litt story of how things shouldn’t be (first posted at Codeguru).

I was once asked to fix this totally non-critical feature in a very critical application. The argument was “we really don’t need it, but since it’s documented you may as well make it work”.
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…caused by the fingerprint reader on my computer. It actually tried to electrocute me

It’s friday, I’m going home.

I don’t know what to call this feature, but it’s been bugging me for quite some time. I don’t know when I got it, why I got it, and if they were ever planning on telling me that I had it. Anyway, I know for sure that I try not to use it - and it’s a pain. It’s the ctrl-shift hotkey. Read the rest of this entry »

The last few days my site has been clogged up by massive blog spam. To stop it I tried different thing, including disabling comments on my blog, but to my surprise the comments were still pouring in. So, I made a quick decision to throw out BBlog and welcome WordPress instead.

So, after a day of templating almost everything seems to be up and running, almost…

After a couple of days (or nights?) with intense rehearsal, Pidi and The Virtual Woolly Ones are finally ready for their first show… So, turn up the volume, scream “Woolly, Woollier, Woolliest” and surrender to complete woolliness!

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After hours with client side script-twiddling I finally got the photo album up and running.

Take a look at it here.

The last week I’ve turned my back on the computer (well, almost) and attended this PADI Open Water Diver course instead. And just for the record - I surveved, I’m still breathing, and I got my certification.

Here are some photos.

My girlfriends laptop has been through a lot and lately it has started to behave in a strange way and cause alot of problems. Ok, I must admit that the biggest problem sits between the keyboard and the chair (surprisingly that’s me) and last week I had the honor of baptising this laptop with Coca Cola. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, check it out yourself at http://www.isitfriday.net/

Hopefully there will a web services version out there soon…