Blog Posts

MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.

SELECT from a Stored Procedure

SELECT from a Stored Procedure

Occasionally I find myself wanting to SELECT from a SPROC in SQL Server. Usually this is because I want to ORDER the results or filter them further with a WHERE clause. Unfortunately, you can't just do this:

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Tight Coupling, Legos, and Super Glue

Tight Coupling, Legos, and Super Glue

Building software applications is sometimes compared with building structures out of smaller components. The children's toys, Legos (and their generic brethren), come to mind and in fact make for a good analogy. Given a …

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Hiring Inbound Marketing Score CARD

Hiring Inbound Marketing Score CARD

In their book, Inbound Marketing( authors Shah and Halligan use a couple of acronyms that, maybe due to my military background, I thought could be improved. The first one was VEPA, which I thought made a lot more sense …

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Inbound Marketing and Small Business Trends

Inbound Marketing and Small Business Trends

I recently read Dharmesh and Brian Halligan's Inbound Marketing book, which has a lot of good tips for startup companies to follow in order to maximize their online reach and popularity. Many of the tips are pretty …

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Prevent Resharper From Adding Regions

Prevent Resharper From Adding Regions

A couple of days ago I was annoyed that Resharper was insisting on turning my abstract base NUnit test class with nothing in it but a shared SetUp method into a one line class with a collapsed Setup / Teardown region in …

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