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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Things I learned this week

At work, current project is nearing release as the calendar nears the end of the quarter.

(A random thought, think of the money that could be saved in business would adopt trimesters instead of quarters...  public companies would only have 3 releases for numbers + annual statements to be made.  I think the savings in worthless red tape would be significant.  What the percent different between 1/3 vs 1/4?)

Some of these items I already knew but relearned them this week again.
  • Scope_Identity() works locally not via a linked server.
  • spIDs are also local for processes running and should not be correlated over a linked server.
  • Always and I mean always specify country ID when looking up State codes even if you current design only supports US only. 
  • When you get a new 64bit development machine, build properties on a C# project specifying CPU type is no longer insignificant.
  • Many people are happily using 64bit version of Windows 7 and don't even realize it.
  • SysWOW64 is still the dumbest name for a folder to date.
  • There is more to life than work.
  • I enjoy singing more than I would have ever guessed.
  • Lunch is my favorite part of the weekday.



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