Archive for December, 2008

CSS, max-height

I wish I had something of substance to add today, but I’ve been overwhelmed by personal stuff.  My oldest daughter has been sick with strep for the last week, so I’ve been having to rearrange a lot of my schedule so I can hang out with her when needed.  Consequently, I’m just wiped in the [...]

December 16, 2008 · stuart · 3 Comments
Posted in: CSS

Converting IP addresses to bigints in T-SQL

Because I really want to keep up the rhythm of posting at least one code slice a week, here’s a snippet I wrote a long time ago. In our business, we often want to compare ranges of IP addresses, and so we need to convert them from an quad-based notation (x.x.x.x) to an integer basis. [...]

December 10, 2008 · stuart · 3 Comments
Posted in: SQL

This is totally useless…

This link’s been on Engadget for a while, but in case you missed it… In case you can’t figure this out; it’s a stool. A stool that you can tell to follow you. Discuss.

December 9, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Fun Toys

We’re committed now!

Tonight, during the AtlantaMDF planning session, I finally took the bait and committed to planning a SQL Saturday. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but was delaying until I got more information about the other user group experience in the region (Code Camp). I finally got word that they’ve picked a date (mid [...]

December 9, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Conferences

Testing a blogging client

So, this is a simple post (which most of you wil probably ignore), but I wanted to try out w.bloggar. Part of the reason is to take advantage of some of the client side tools, but probably the biggest reason is to add a little footnote to each post letting you know what music I’m [...]

December 8, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!

Weekly Link RoundUp 2008-12-05

Not a lot of time spent reading this week; it’s Nutcracker week (my daughter dances in the ballet), and my schedule has been nuts.  On top of that, my wife’s birthday was this week, I blew up my site, and my parents are in town.  However, what I have read is worth sharing: Brent Ozar has [...]

December 5, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Weekly Link Roundup

it’s all in how you look at it…

Not sure how to classify this bit of useless knowledge, but I’m putting it out there in case it sparks some-one’s creative interest.  Most of my day job entails parsing firewall syslog data; syslog may be a standard method of streaming data from a firewall, but there’s really very little standard about what is contained [...]

December 4, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: XML

a few more tweaks….

So, I spent part of the day reading Brent’s great series on starting a technical blog, and paid a lot of attention to his most recent post How to Start a Technical Blog, Part 3: WordPress Plugins.  I’ve got to hand it to the WordPress developers; there’s a lot of cool stuff out there.  I [...]

December 4, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!

Writing Dynamic SQL

I’m currently working on presentation for Dynamic SQL, and I thought I’d share one of my favorite tricks.  I had actually posted it to USENET earlier, so you can read the whole thread here, complete with some very useful suggestions, but here’s a synopsis: As you’re probably aware, writing dynamic SQL statements can be a [...]

December 3, 2008 · stuart · One Comment
Posted in: SQL

Playing with themes

One of the benefits of starting over is that I now have access to the latest themes; I like this one, it’s simple, and I’ll be able to tweak it to fit my needs pretty easily.  More to come, but I think I’m done for the evening.

December 3, 2008 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!