Performance boost with Google Chrome?

Here’s an interesting article from Hamid Shojaee, founder of Axosoft. At work we use their OnTime software extensively to track Bugs/Defects/Feature Requests/Incidents – and even as a simple project management tool.
Their web client is probably the best web client I’ve ever used – the experience is scarily like using a native windows app. If you [...]

Quote of the week: 16th May 2008

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
-Albert Einstein

If you touch my display I’ll ….. !

This is definitely a pet hate! Well said Coding Horror – keep your sticky fingers to yourself!!

Let’s say, just as a hypothetical, you’re sitting at your computer, casually chatting up a fellow programmer. You begin to describe some bit of code, then bring it up on your display to illustrate. You want to highlight [...]

SQL Replication Fun!

We use Microsoft SQL Server as the back end for our Retail Management & EPOS software. On most systems we use merge replication configured with pull subscriptions. Recently we’ve had a few instances of the replication mysteriously hanging on a merge – the first sign is usually the client calling to say their system is [...]