Archive for August, 2008
A week with the iPhone
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008So, I’ve had the iPhone for a week now. As I mentioned in my own blog I wasn’t exactly blown away by it. Don’t get me wrong, as a PDA its great, but it’s nothing that hugely unique. And in its crippled state (as is how apple ships it, and how it’s meant to be [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 5
Friday, August 15th, 2008Sit. Rep.: It’s all fucked. I’ve been doing all this testing on my local machine, which has been brilliant. We were then going to do some side-by-side scenario testing live, which meant prepping the servers.We don’t run th management console on the actual database server, obviously, so it gets installed on the terminal server so [...]
Mythological reputations
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008I’ve had a hell of a month. I have been spending most of this year so far working with a large expensive piece of software called MATLAB. By expensive, I mean the student version is over $100 for the most basic package. By expensive, I mean the research package starts at $1000 and climbs somewhat [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 2
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008There’s a fantastic feature in the Management Console that should have been there since the very beginning. I didn’t find it yesterday for reaons that will become apparent in a few minutes: Intellisense! Its about time. There were third-party plugins that did the same thing, but seeing as I don’t use the query designer to [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 1
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008First cab off the rank: Management Console. I’m interested to see the changes here, because this is to be honest, most people’s window into the SQL Server. Sure some people like to go hardcore and script everything, but more normal people use the GUI for day to day tasks. First task: Attach an SQL Server [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 0
Monday, August 11th, 2008Not a great start. It took the best part of an entire day to install SQL Server 2008 on my Vista machine. The installation started well. It installed the pre-requisite Windows Installer 4 and .NET Framework 3.5. Requisite restart after Windows Installer. Sailed through a much more sensible configuration wizard, saw a few new features [...]
SQL Server 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008Straight off the press and into my hot little hands is an MSDN copy of SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition. As soon as the installation for it finishes downloading a massive update for Visual Studio 2008 (! I know) I’ll (probably, if I can be bothered) post my findings here. One of the most promising [...]
Lamb in wolves skin
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Some recent musings with a fellow uni-companion brought to light the fact that many people go out purchasing Apple’s ‘macbook’, with the only intention being to scrap the host os (OS-X), and replace it with windows, usually XP, but some are going to Vista. We were discussing how stupid it was, the main reason being [...]