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How to Detect Process Exit

It is somewhat complicated task to determine when the Process exited or the command finished its work. 2 handy properties of System.Diagnostics.Process would help [ ... ]

posted @ 07/06/2007 11:55 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Serge Gainsbourg — Ballade de Melody Nelson

The following is Serge Gainsbourg's short track called Ballade de Melody Nelson from 1971 Historie de Melody Nelson album. With Jane Birkin in the background [ ... ]

posted @ 07/06/2007 4:53 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

T-SQL Query Processing Order

One of the most important aspects in optimizing MSSQL queries is understanding the steps order the query is processed since the query is processed in the order that is different than the code written. IMHO, it is the main difficulty in understanding complicated queries [ ... ]

posted @ 06/30/2007 9:29 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

How to Manage Visual Studio Recent Projects List

This is a small tip how one can manage or change Most Recently Used projects list in Visual Studio - either in the start page or File > Recent Projects menu. Many times people just want to delete or remove items from that list [ ... ]

posted @ 06/30/2007 7:53 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Fosimo was Approved to the Facebook Application Directory

Fosimo was approved to the Facebook Application Directory today. Fosimo checks every 10 minutes (by default) vs. Facebook servers regarding your friends status updates. Status update remains relevant for 3 hours (by default) - it should be created within 3 hours by one of your friends [ ... ]

posted @ 06/29/2007 9:36 PM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Facebook Operating System (err.. Platform)

A month ago Facebook Platform was announced. I think most people still don't really get it but what Facebook is trying to do is to create the first Web Operating System, when 3rd parties are able to develop and run their applications (web and desktop) within Facebook servers, share traffic and money [ ... ]

posted @ 06/29/2007 1:24 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Fosimo 0.7.6 Released

Fosimo 0.7.4 - 0.7.6 - In this release: Fixes (including Datetime GMT bug, link to Facebook from context menu, recurrence period (default 10 minutes) and relevant hours (default 3 hours) are configurable [ ... ]

posted @ 06/23/2007 5:27 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

How Facebook API Handles DateTime

Facebook gives away Datetime as Long (number of seconds since 1970/01/01). In GMT. Wanted to mention that this caused a bug in Fosimo, apparently fixed [ ... ]

posted @ 06/23/2007 4:46 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

Unique Ideas and Blogging

Speaking of blogging - I believe there is some sort of ideas market. Some people or we may call them "early adopters" go and buy good ones. Others manage to get the rest until there is no single unique idea left [ ... ]

posted @ 06/23/2007 4:27 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)

How to Insert DBCC Output into MSSQL Table

DBCC can be used with WITH TABLERESULTS hint that outputs the output in the table rowset format. So - here is a small code sample that demonstrates the technique [ ... ]

posted @ 06/23/2007 2:54 AM (by Anatoly Lubarsky)