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If you use Foxit Reader, an excellent lightweight PDF file viewer from Foxit Software, then this tip might be of value to you sometime. I’ve been using the software for years as an alternative to Adobe’s bloated offering. It has always worked well for me, and continued to work well after I migrated my home [...]

In the process of debugging some stored procedures the other day a colleague and I happened on an input parameter that had been given the type smalldatetime. We noticed it because we were using the maximum and minimum values for System.DateTime to set boundaries in some validation code. The maximum value for the System.DateTime structure [...]

If you have any interest in intelligent algorithms Ari Schulman has an article worth reading in the Winter 2009 volume of The new Atlantis. I am not particularly fascinated with what some think of as Artificial Intelligence; I can’t stand the term, to be frank, and hold the acronym in no higher esteem. But I [...]