It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my blog, mainly due to the lack of spare time, but I really needed to spill my guts over this. Ever since webpages became indexed by search engines like Altavista, Excite, Lycos and Google there have been companies stating they know a lot about optimizing webpages so […]
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Year: 2010
Sesame street knew Google before it exis...
While browsing the web I ran into a really creepy movie on youtube. It seems sesame street’s cookie monster knew about google 27 years ago, way before it was founded 😉 [sarcasm mode] Maybe they were one of the funders of google?? 😉 [/sarcasm mode] Anyway, without further ado… the flick 😉 httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdRkdvKy5WI
SSIS Lookup component is case sensitiv
The other day, i was working on a new SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) package to transform data from a production database to an analysis database. It worked quite well, i thought, everything seemed to work as it was supposed to when testing with a subset of data. So next up, live usage. And that […]
default(T) vs null
When programming in C#, we often test if a variable is used in the following way: if (var != null) { // do the right thing } else { // fallback or raise exception } This works well if the variable is a nullable type or a reference type, but when the variable is of […]
Now I'll use shortened urls in my twitte
The O of SEO
Let me first tell you I’m no expert in SEO ( for those who don’t know the abbreviation, it stands for ‘Search Engine Optimization 🙂 ) but as it’s not that difficult to find a lot of information about it, I think I’m allowed to tell you what I think about it. In my humble […]