In my last post I talked about a problem I had after I upgraded to 64 bit Windows and needed to archive a text based report output by an old DOS program which was now hosted in a virtual machine. I ended the post by giving an example of the report, which I replicate here:
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
31 January 2012
When I read that all I would need to do to use SQL Azure and have a database in the cloud for my SQL Server based applications was change the connection string, it seemed to good to be true. There's always a gotcha somewhere.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
30 March 2011
At Convallis we've been working with .Net 4 for some time and while WCF Data Services has been around (under a different name) since .Net 3.5 Sp1 we hadn't dabbled. However, while implementing a new feature for online ConvallisCRM which required a Silverlight component I decided to experiment with Data Services to provide the Web Services needed by the Silverlight component to exchange data with.
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
01 October 2010
I watched a programme on TV last night called 'Dispatches Undercover Social Worker', it was a secret camera type investigative report where a reporter had gone to work for Surrey Social Services department for 3 months as a support officer. It was disturbing to see that people who by and large cared about what they were doing were hampered by having to fill in a lot of forms after having visited a child at home. A lot more time was spent form filling than in actually helping the child, with many of the workers feeling distress and frustration at a system which values form filling over the protection of the children themselves!
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
09 June 2010
I don't think this is a technology I've ever mentioned before, partly because the reports I build for the applications I write tend to be embedded in the application. But that doesn't mean that I haven't dabbled with it and my increasing interest in Business Intelligence has meant that I've spent more time with it over the past few weeks!
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Posted by Richard Isaac on
19 October 2008
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