Sometime back I detailed the command to describe the details a database table for Microsoft SQL Server. To detail the a given database table you can use the sp_help command. If you don’t want to type sp_help every time you want to see the structure of a table you can use a query shortcut. Microsoft [...]
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The other day I solved a bug. I didn’t think much of it. The bug basically manifested itself when the user search for data but none was returned. We write an ‘enterprise-grade’ software application, so there is a lot of code and tiers between clicking the search button and displaying the data in the client. [...]
If you work with Java and need to access meetings, contacts, emails, etc from the users Outlook, you could have done it using Groovy and Scriptom. But to write Java code, instead of Groovy code, you can use Java Outlook Connector (JOC) from Moyosoft. JOC is basically a wrapper to COM for accessing Outlook. Once [...]
If you ever wanted to be a speaker at JavaOne, you have until November 16 to submit your proposal for technical or Birds of a Feather sessions. Last year a big theme was Java scripting with Groovy and JRuby and I expect this to be a hot topic at the JavaOne 2008. I also think [...]
Software programmers love things that are free, such as free and open source software and freeware. Developers also love their text editors. Over my development experience I have used a ton of editors. As a programmer I like an editor with code and syntax highlighting, code folding, tabs, and all the bells and whistles. Here [...]
Boot Camp allows you to run Microsoft Windows on your Mac, natively just as you would on any laptop from Dell or HP. In essence, boot camp allows you to start and run either OS X or Windows on your Apple hardware. Boot Camp is easy to set up and configure and perhaps that is [...]
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