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Macpomme left a comment about how the family.show application would make a fantastic web sharing application. Well it turns out this has already been created, its called Geni. Jeff Attwood at codinghorror.com has also spoken about this application for the brilliant way that it avoids the login barrier. I recommend having a look at this site, before you know it you will have added your family tree. 

Monday, June 25, 2007 7:54:40 AM UTC      Comments [0]  Misc

For various reasons I needed to connect to one of our SQL Server boxes which has been setup to run on a non standard port. At first I tried the normal way to address a port: 192.168.0.3:3000, but that wasn't working. After some googling I found that you need to use a comma:  192.168.0.3,3000.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:37:08 AM UTC      Comments [0]  

I stumbled across a pretty cool feature of SQL Server Management Studio the other almost by accident. It turns out there is an option to send the operation you are doing to script. For example my screen shot shows the create new login dialog. Now there is no excuse for developers not to check in database change scripts (I'm referring to all those point and click database developers).

Monday, June 18, 2007 10:33:29 AM UTC      Comments [0]  

Well pigs must be flying, a couple of weeks ago I bought a black MacBook. My friend who is a mac user pretty much pressured me into it, the MacBook was some stock that was being replaced by the new MacBooks, so it represented a good savings.

So for the last week or so I've been playing with OS X.

Monday, June 18, 2007 10:03:21 AM UTC      Comments [1]