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posted @ 06/28/2008 5:17 AM (by Freestyle Battle Group)

NEW 1

posted @ 06/28/2008 5:17 AM (by Freestyle Battle Group)

who wanna battle?

This is a 1st entry here for test

posted @ 06/27/2008 4:00 AM (by Freestyle Battle Group)

T-SQL: Get Filename from Filepath

Many times applications store operating system paths to files in the database. And sometimes need to get only Filename portion out of Filepath column in MSSQL ? Disclaimer: I know - it's much easier to get the filename using C#, however [ ... ]

posted @ 06/27/2008 3:13 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

ASP.NET: How to Bind RSS Feed To Repeater

Repeater seems to be the easiest, light, most simple and generic control in ASP.NET to render repeated items. For example in data driven applications it is easy to render table contents (i.e. table rows) with Repeater. All developer needs to do is [ ... ]

posted @ 06/21/2008 2:18 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Bathroom Stall Vandalism - 3000 Users on BEBO

Bathroom Stall Vandalism on BEBO has passed 3000 users. Previous 2000 mark was back in April. Speaking of which - Bathroom Stall Vandalism Gallery was launched on Facebook this weekend [ ... ]

posted @ 06/15/2008 11:11 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

How to: Get Total Physical Memory

Q: My app needs to know how much RAM the machine it's running on has. How can this information be aquired ? Is there any _managed_ way of getting total physical memory installed in the machine [ ... ]

posted @ 06/14/2008 5:59 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Break Machine — Street Dance

I always thought that 80s was the music era. Music industry has never reached the amount of talent since then. My theory is that in 80s it was music where most talented would try to go to express themselves. in 90s and 2000s it is IT and internet industry which possess most [ ... ]

posted @ 06/06/2008 2:09 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Natural Key vs. Surrogate Key - Userid in Social Networks

All of us (almost) are the members of different social networks: Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Hi5, etc. We ARE users. User is a real entity - a real person. One of the problems is the ability to identify a user in a unique way across the internet. There are 2 approaches to identify entity [ ... ]

posted @ 05/30/2008 1:36 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

MySql: Add a Column at a Specific Position

I'm playing with MySql for the 1st time in my life recently. Rather quickly I'm getting used to it mostly due to my experience with MSSQL as DBA. While changing table structure [ ... ]

posted @ 05/28/2008 7:17 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)