Sorting It All Out

Now lots of people have already been talking about cool changes to fonts in Windows 7, such as blogs like Long Zheng's Improvements to fonts in Windows 7, which talk about some of the long-awaited ...

Prior blogs in the series here
and here
and here
and here
and here and here.There has been a question about the steering of the IBOT that I have been trying to explain.I have kind of given up.T...

The question from the other day from Patrick was:I have a class defined as public class Foo { private string name = "a\r\nb\r\nc"; public string Name { get { return this.name; } set { this.name = v...

Once again, a blog for your reading pleasure that is technical though not on the usual subjects. If iBOT crap bores you, then please skip gracefully!
Prior blogs in the series here
and here
and h...

I was asked the other day what I thought about string comparisons. What with all the different recommendations floating around, all of the different possibilities, and all the unclear guidelines, t...

So it all started in a conversation with some of the folks from the SQL Server team when I was at PASS.
What did they expect? Send 600 Microsoft employees to an event and you are bound to run into ...

The question yesterday was:
For date formatting and parsing APIs, is there a difference between lower- and upper-case Ys? (I.e., 鈥測yyy鈥?v. 鈥淵YYY鈥?) The articles on MSDN seem to be inconclusive. Err...

Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog:
Part 0:
The intro, sans content
Part 1:
Getting the obvious out of the way
Part 2:
A&P of a 'linguistic character'
Part 3:
It starts with...

Warning: although slightly technical, this blog is mostly non-technical, and/or technical about stuff related to the iBOT. If the technical issues related to SQL Server and/or PASS interest you the...

The title of this blog is an allusion to Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and eventually I'll be quoting a bit of the Herr-provided narration (those are the pieces Martin Sheen read)...It all started with...