Archive for January, 2009

Weekly Link Roundup 2009-01-28

Stuff I’ve been reading: Lots and lots of stuff on the digital tv transition:  This is fascinating to me; it’s a perfect example of the stupidity of federal government.  They sold the bandwidth, so everyone needs to upgrade.  They set a date.  We have a change in exeuctive administration (but not in legislative), and suddenly [...]

January 29, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Weekly Link Roundup

Building ranges using a dynamically generated numbers table

We use a queueing metaphor for dataloads for the majority of our imports, and it’s been a challenge to figure out how to generate dynamic ranges to add to the queue. In other words, we want to tell our system to go and pcik data from a source that has an id value >x and [...]

January 25, 2009 · stuart · 5 Comments
Posted in: SQL

Let’s all go to the movies….

I just got back from watching Gran Torino with the wife; if you haven’t seen this film yet, it’s frikkin’ awesome!  Warning, this movie definitely warrants the R rating it carries.  It’s both funny and sad, and speaks a lot about vengeance, growth, and personal retribution.  It’s kind of a mature Karate Kid.  The only [...]

January 24, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Entertainment

Weekly Link Roundup 2009-01-21

Stuff I’ve been reading: Causing a stir in Tok Alaska: I first started reading this blog after reading about the -78 degree weather in Alaska on the Drudge Report. The writer is quite talented, and it’s a lot of fun to read. Wordle:  Technically, this ain’t reading.  I found out about Wordle from Brent’s blog, [...]

January 22, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Weekly Link Roundup

catching up…

I’m starting to fall back into a bad habit of not posting regularly; I’ve already missed a couple of weekly updates, and I haven’t shown off much coding lately.  I wish I could blame it on a lack of time, but the truth is that I’m lazy.  Even though I’ve been keeping busy, I still [...]

January 22, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Conferences

AtlantaMDF meeting 2009-01-12

Wanted to drop a quick post wrapping up tonight’s usergroup meeting for AtlantaMDF.  Tonight was the first chance I’ve had to pitch SQLSaturday #13 to a larger audience, and I got a lot of positive feedback.  I had several people volunteer to help, and even had two or three people volunteer to present (not including [...]

January 13, 2009 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: Conferences, User Groups

Happy New Year!

So, sitting up and watching Double Impact and cruising the web, I read Andy Warren’s Thoughts for 2009, and I thought I should probably contribute my own ideas as well.  I definitely want to spend more time blogging and contributing to the user groups at large.  Obviously, I’m going to be tied up with SQL [...]

January 2, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Education, Health