Wishing everyone a Happy New Decade.  As with arrays, there are camps on the 0 or 1 starting point.  I'll continue being annoyed with Anno Domini one zero-based milestone at a time.  Let this discrepancy serve as a reminder to never deal with dates and times without the aid of a library, because you too are probably …
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Things never to do again:
Do not under any circumstance use SELECT DISTINCT to return unique results from a database because a subquery or join is causing duplicate rows.  You are getting duplicate rows because the subquery or join isn't as accurate as it needs to be... stop using this as a quick fix it only causes …
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I've recently decided that I'm a .NET developer. Then I got some people to pay me to be a .NET developer. All in all I'm happier writing code than I was fixing servers and networks but sometimes programming just drives me nuts. Today's rant is about the ObjectDataSource in .NET... and really datasource objects in …
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