We’re using SQL Compact 3.5 in a smart client desktop application, talking to it with NHibernate and are experiencing performance problems in a couple of places. In general, we’re very happy with the database, it is most of the time pretty fast, and easy to work with. The fact that it runs within our process […]
I’ve got a list of links in the sidebar of this blog. What is not obvious is that this list is an aggregated list of links that come from multiple sources. At the moment, I mark links as interesting from two sources: Delicious Google Reader (shared items) Ideally, I don’t want to have 2 lists […]
So I’ve decided to start posting my own photo’s onto a dedicated photo blog, you may have noticed the photos appearing in the sidebar (the wonders of rss!). If you’re interested in photography, you might find it interesting. The blog’s address is http://refracted.co.za/. I’m not going to be posting any more photos on this blog, […]
This is a fascinating article: PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of “score” to sort by. The article goes into detail about how all the most […]
Took this the other day, just a ribbon hanging off the ceiling.