December 2009 - Posts

• Is The Paid-Article Website Dead?

  I was doing some varied reading this morning and stumbled across this article by Paul Graham. I want to highlight this passage: " We now have several examples to prove that amateurs can surpass professionals, when they have the right kind of system to Read More... Posted Sunday, December 27, 2009 11:13 AM by Greg Low | 8 Comments

• OT: Green Science and Bogus Mathematics

  With the climate summit in Copenhagen now finished, I wanted to make a few comments about a trend that really annoys me. I'm fairly "green oriented" in my outlook but amongst "green" scientists and advocates, there is an endless desire to make each cause Read More... Posted Sunday, December 20, 2009 9:56 PM by Greg Low | 5 Comments

• Odd that you can't create a filtered index on a deterministic persisted calculated column

  On a client site the other day, I came across a situation (unfortunately too common) where a column in a table was being used for two purposes. It could either hold an integer value or a string. Only about 100 rows out of many millions had the integer Read More... Posted Saturday, December 05, 2009 4:34 PM by Greg Low | 3 Comments

• Book: Wally McClure - Building iPhone and iPod touch Applications for the .NET/C# Developer with MonoTouch

  The title says it all. An old buddy of mine Wally McClure has just released a short new eBook on Wrox that covers how to get started building iPhone and iPod Touch applications using MonoTouch. That should be of interest to the C#/.NET developers out Read More... Posted Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:15 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments