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Software projects fail for all sorts of reasons, although the same reasons crop up over and over again. The ICONIX...

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Simple COM server registration

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09 March 2006 18 min read

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Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor – A Guide for Software Developers

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Palindromic Transact SQL

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Dominick Reed

S.P.L.I.N.K.

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Articles

What is SQL?

Agile Development and ICONIX

Database Geek of the Week – Glenn Johnson

Telekinisis doesn’t exist

Avoiding the TSQL ‘Convert’ styles.

SQL Server and .NET Training and Career Development (part 2)

The Incident of ‘The Two Johns’ -an IT Manager confesses.

SQL Backup 4.0 and beyond

IT Agencies and the Devil

Spoofing Popularity-A warning to Webmasters

The cost of poor website performance

Database Geek of the Week – Tom Moreau

Simple COM server registration

Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor – A Guide for Software Developers

Palindromic Transact SQL

Wheels within wheels

SQL Server and .NET Training and Career Development

I could do it in my sleep

Intelligent Database Design Using Hash Keys

S.P.L.I.N.K.