Fairly Realistic

dev meeting

Originally uploaded by superic.

Yes, of course I’m paying attention… actually, I was participating as much or more than the person presenting
I’ve been really busy lately at work. It seems that 60-hour or more weeks are near required. With that I am signing off because […]

Just in case you are not already a teenager or a elite hacker, here is a guide to elite speak courtesy of Microsoft. You can learn a lot of important things from that article, such as “Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as “teh” instead of “the” are left uncorrected and may be adopted to […]

Have you ever wondered why you should never use global variables? I know why. I have known why for years. My team at work did not know why however, and this is the scenario we’ve run into:
“Of course, you’ll want to limit the use of global variables. Globals are very hard to keep track of, […]

Have you ever wanted to get a list of every stored procedure (stored proc) on an sql server and which tables each corresponds with? I know that I have
Try this bit of T-SQL code:
SELECT
“Table Name” = P.[name],
“Trigger Name” = O.[name],
“Trigger […]

Adventures at Panera

Originally uploaded by superic.

It is great to be back home with my sweetie, Nicole! Sig (from work) and I made it home safely from Texas. We had a good time at the conference and both did well at our presentations.
I taught a “High-level overview of […]

I’ve been in Texas for nearly a day now. Let’s recap:
Our flight was pretty good, especially since we got the exit row and the plane was mostly empty. We flew on Northwest Air. They threw some pretzels at us and a can or two of pop. No meals though- they were a part of a […]

myLastFM 0.6.0

Originally uploaded by superic.

We released a new beta of myLastFM last night with many new features and fixes. Download a copy and check it out
Jon flew up this weekend from Delaware to work on the custom streaming engine which myLastFM will soon feature. Thank […]

Nicole at Shear Ego

Originally uploaded by superic.

Last night Nicole and I took a little time out of our busy schedules to pamper ourselves. We went to Shear Ego in Pittsford. Nicole got a haircut and I got my first ever Sweedish Massage. Well, Nicole got *most* of […]

Golf GTI

Originally uploaded by superic.

Nicole and I used to have a zippy little Golf GTI. It was a wonderful car, very fast, sporty, and useful at the same time. It was a black 1998 VR6 with 200HP. We flew to Chicago to pick it up and drive […]

Gmail Invites

Originally uploaded by superic.

Does anyone want a Gmail invite?