I Feel So Bloated
No, I'm not having a fat day. I'm just exhausted from talking with people who are trying to boil the ocean in order to cook a couple of fish for dinner.
A question came up yesterday about the "tight coupling" between...
LINQ posing challenges for Java futures?
dotNETConnections was quoted today's SD Times on the challenges ahead for Java as LINQ and the new programming paradigms gathers pace and momentum in the .NET space. Some interesting reactions from...
2008 Data Access Predictions
Bloggers are seemingly required to make a list of predictions for 2008. My colleague, Jonathan Bruce has opted out of this and instead highlighted some of his favorites. Since I'm not as "distinguished" as JB in the blogosphere, I'm going to take a stab at my data access predictions (plus a couple of...
We're Running Out of Words II
It's interesting when you have a shared blog... sometimes coordinating posts with others so there is no talking over each other leads to no one posting. It's especially hard for me, as I'm a "mood poster" - meaning, I post when I'm in the mood. Fortunately, I'm usually in the mood to talk...
Converting tab delimited files into EDI
A few days ago I received a email saying "I am a DataDirect XQuery user, and I'm successfully using your product to create XML-based reports from incoming EDI messages. Now I'm in...
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