A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about my participation in the inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup. Well, I didn’t get any further, and exited spectacularly in round 2. To say it was tricky is an understatement. The level of difficulty … Continue reading
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been taking part in the inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup, a programming competition ran along almost identical lines to Google’s well established CodeJam. The format of the competition is quite simple. To start with, … Continue reading
Recently, I needed to ensure that a whole ASP.NET web application was forced to deliver content over a secure connection. Almost every page in the application contained sensitive data, and is was deemed acceptable for the small number of pages … Continue reading
I’ve recently downloaded the first three chapters of Kyle Banker’s “MongoDB In Action” from Manning’s early access program. So far, it’s shaping up to be a great read. In it, Banker uses Ruby in his examples, and the MongoDB project … Continue reading
I’ve heard for many years that using SELECT * FROM <some table> is a bad idea. I’ve always agreed with this in principle, but in practice often haven’t followed this guideline. That’s all about to change, as I was caught … Continue reading
Introduction A couple of week ago, I read this post by David Poole about reading data from SQL Server into Excel, where the data source was a parameterised stored procedure. David concludes that a small amount of (albeit trivial) VBA … Continue reading
Rather than do anything outlandish for my first post, I thought I’d do what the majority of bloggers seem to do for their first post, and that’s write a post about why I’m blogging. What, you don’t believe me? Here … Continue reading