I’ve been meaning to write a little bit about Red Gate’s SQL tools. I have been playing with them (in particular SQL Compare and SQL Packager… although I have also played with SQL Data Compare). I have to say that like everyone else on CodeBetter who has worked with them… these...

Ok, this is really old news (March 20th), but I can’t believe that no one has blogged about it. I originally learned about this via the Daily Grind. I guess everyone went out tried the beta said “Wow… that’s buggy, and left.” Unlike me that is, you see this is a piece of...

Well, at least the ones I've tried. Let's take a quick jump back down memory lane... something that Frans Bouma said to me way back here ( http://codebetter.com/blogs/jay.kimble/archive/2005/06/01/63937.aspx#63954 ) struck a chord. I don't know ORMs that well, and despite my misgivings over Dynamic SQL...

So I finished reading Coding Slave last weekend. It's taken me awhile to fully process it. Bob Reselman has written a book that truly describes the programming condition. I would highly recommend this book for this reason alone. I know that we all know the issues, but I really like the way that Bob puts...