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StumbleUpon database failure error

It seems StumbleUpon has recently been getting the “slashdot” effect: What’s with the username-password info?  And the ton of arrays?

Microsoft virtual launch

You can check out the virtual launch for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 here. You never know…Steve Ballmer may have another “developers, developers, developers” sweaty-armpit-speech. And why it’s called Heroes Happen Here, I don’t know. It’s worth looking into though.

Teach yourself programming in ten years

Here’s an interesting article that Peter Norvig wrote about how wanna-be programmers are in such a hurry in becoming a full-fledged “developer,” buying into Teach Yourself <some language> in 21 days books and the likes. I’ve been developing/programming for a while now and to become a developer, a great one, you simply cannot take shortcuts. [...]

SQL Server Best Practices

For archival purposes, here’s the location of a ton of white papers for best practices or SQL Server on the TechNet site. Best Practice is a management idea which asserts that there is a technique, method, process, activity, incentive or reward that is more effective at delivering a particular outcome than any other technique, method, [...]

SQL Injection-proof your integrated SQL search in ASP.NET 2.0

I had forgotten to add SQL Injection prevention logic when I integrated and implemented a SQL search function for my employer’s internal ASP.NET app.  So in this post, I’m adding it for archival and sharing purposes. SQL injection is an attack in which malicious code is inserted into strings that are later passed to an instance of [...]