D ‘OH

In SGI FORTRAN77, “Real*8″ is a real number with 8 bytes of storage, and “Real*16″ is a real number with 16 bytes of storage. So in SQLServer 2000, the default decimal type “decimal(18,0)” in Management Studio and in Enterprise Manager, is a decimal with 18 bytes of storage, right? Today, I heard a [...]

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Using GridView with a Business Layer

I submitted an article recently to The Code Project on how to use a GridView control in a Business Layer. The article and accompanying code demonstrates a way to use the GridView control with a business layer. Though I’ve been using that solution in several projects successfully for several months now, I’m still bothered by [...]

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The Ulterior Solution

I am truly thankful for people who spend their time helping others online in tech forums. Please keep posting!
Often when I embark upon a learning experience about controversial gizmos like iframes, I run across forum threads that follow this basic pattern, which I call the Ulterior Solution:
Alice: “How do I use iframes to [...]

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All-in-one Printing from Multiple IFrames

Keywords: IE, iframes, printing
First I should admit that I don’t think of myself primarily as a frontend web developer. I’ve always thought of myself as an enterprise architect first, and a backend programmer second. I have no stake in the debates over liquid design versus tables, or over the inherent evilness of frames [...]

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Mail Authentication

Keywords: Exchange Authentication, SMTP Authentication, Network Credentials
This is turning into a blog about weird errors.
So we have a .Net web application at work that takes orders for services internally. It has the feature that for authenticated users, an email will be generated to the service provider notifying them that a service has been [...]

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A Good Start

Got my bike back from the shop, nice weather, and took Gracie out for a ride.  10 miles, no problem!

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