Month: May 2009
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MSSQL, jTDS, NVARCHAR and Slow Indexes
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] An application I’ve built is going into production soon. It’s the first application I’ve been involved with which will be using MSSQL server in production, I have some learning about MSSQL…
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Environment specific mail auth and Seam’s MailSession
If you are using Seam’s MailSession to send out going e-mail from your Seam application you can run into trouble if you have a mail server in any environment (dev, test, stage, prod) that allows outgoing mail based on the client’s IP address and does not use username and password based authentication. The standard configuration…
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New Floors and No Sleep
We are getting new hardwood flooring installed in most of the upstairs (everywhere except the two bathrooms) to replace the old stained carpet. We’re about halfway through the whole process. The floor is about 95% in place, with the final wood getting laid down tomorrow morning. Then Monday and Tuesday will be used for sanding…
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Installing an SSD in a MacBookPro
I just replaced my 17″ Unibody MacBookPro’s hard drive with a new Corsair 256GB SSD. The SSD uses Samsung chips and controller. It’s VERY FAST! First I made an image of my BootCamp partition using WinClone. Next I ran one final Time Machine backup to my Time Capsule. After that was complete, I shut the…
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Bachelor Party in the Big Apple
I traveled to New York City this weekend in order to attend a good friend’s bachelor party. I caught a Jet Blue flight on Friday afternoon. I really like Jet Blue. Jet Blue and Virgin America are my two favorite domestic airlines, unfortunately they both currently have limited routes. Traffic getting into the city from…
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Hawaii
I just returned from a week in Hawaii. I’d never been before, but now I definitely want to go back! Emma, her parents, her brother, his girlfriend, and I traveled to Honolulu via Salt Lake City. We stayed in a house on the ocean on the North Shore of Oahu. The view was amazing all…