October 2004 Blog Posts

October Melbourne SQL Server SIG - "Indepth Look at DTS in SQL Server 2005"

This review is a bit old, but probably still worth posting to gather my own thoughts on the October SQL SIG. David Lean (I couldn't find his blog or website, sorry) presented October's SQL Server SIG on Tuesday, October 19th, on the topic of “An Indepth Look at DTS in SQL Server 2005” at Microsoft's offices on Chapel Street, Melbourne. I use DTS for importing files into my applications (among other things) and was keen to see how Microsoft had improved both the design-time environment and the run-time options. I was particularly interested in debugging & error handling, two areas I found pretty weak...

posted @ Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:13 PM | Feedback (0)

UI Patterns and Techniques

Via Bill Simser comes the UI Patterns and Techniques website, which is a collection of user interface-related widget ideas and approaches collected from existing applications and people's comments on the web. The author sums up the site by saying: There's nothing new here...Each of these patterns (which are more general) and techniques (more specific) are intended to help you solve design problems. They're common problems, and there's no point in reinventing the wheel every time you need, say, a sortable table -- plenty of folks have already done it, and learned how to do it well. Some of that knowledge is written up...

posted @ Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:36 PM | Feedback (0)

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