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		<title>Boolean Expressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The C# code-base I work on has hundreds of places where I have felt a boolean expression could have been used to simplify the code substantially.
Here&#8217;s an example of what I mean:

if (someBoolValue &#038;&#038; someOtherBoolValue)
{
    return true;
}
else
{
    return false;
}

This is frustrating &#8216;over-coding&#8217; to my mind because as we will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving Faster ADSL Speeds&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/02/07/achieving-faster-adsl-speeds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/02/07/achieving-faster-adsl-speeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or &#8220;How to improve your appalling ADSL speeds to what they told you you&#8217;d get speeds&#8221;&#8230;or &#8220;How I split my ADSL and telephone signals and shoved them down a Cat5e cable&#8221;.
OK. So this post is not about a blag or any mechanism whereby you can get more speed than you paid for. It probably only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phantom Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just worked on a little support problem that was quite interesting - although not in a good way - as unfortunately it demonstrates failures at so many stages of the specification and development process that I am quite disappointed to be associated with it. Associated, but not the cause of it, to be clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why&#8217;s Ruby Guide Update</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/08/31/whys-ruby-guide-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just updated Why&#8217;s Ruby Guide pdf to include Chapter 7&#8217;s images; go to the specific page with updates. Thanks to Andy Matuschak for pointing this out to me, and giving me a link to where the documents are still available on the internet  
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		<title>The Rounding Race - Rounding DateTimes to Dates at Midnight</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/08/31/the-rounding-race-rounding-datetimes-to-dates-at-midnight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I covered the implementation details of DateTime and SmallDateTime datatypes in SQL Server 2005.  I approached the issue of testing dates to see if they fell on a particular date&#8230; but then stopped-short of some fairly useful (but arcane) stuff about rounding dates.
So let&#8217;s imagine a scenario. We take orders and store the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Second to Midnight - DateTimes in Sql Server 2005</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/08/30/one-second-to-midnight-datetimes-in-sql-server-2005/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/08/30/one-second-to-midnight-datetimes-in-sql-server-2005/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I am enthused to write about the DateTime and SmallDateTime datatypes in SQL Server 2005 (and possibly this also applies to 2008, although that has additional date and time types).  I am driven to write this because I have seen a number of issues relating to their use in queries and one in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello I&#8217;d Like to Change my Mother&#8217;s Name</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/05/31/hello-id-like-to-change-my-mothers-name/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/05/31/hello-id-like-to-change-my-mothers-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, our client had a &#8216;Compliance&#8217; team visit.  It was a nightmare. Worse than the general guff Marketing / Sales Departments come up with&#8230; or those nasty little changes that are all designed to improve the user experience (you know the ones; where you have to turn some design or code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Release Week</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/05/26/big-release-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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A very personal note this time. Last week I released a project that was pretty-much the largest single release that I&#8217;ve worked on for my current employer.
Like many systems, the history of this one is that as customer applications made their way through the relevant processes, the system recorded various information about the processes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Your Lookup Tables</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/05/16/empowering-your-lookup-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/05/16/empowering-your-lookup-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;ve noticed that some developers, while fully understanding what a lookup table is for in terms of normalising data, miss opportunities to use them in additional ways.  This post is therefore about those further uses for lookup tables that will really give you an opportunity to streamline your code.
For the purposes of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Basic Lookup Table</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2009/05/13/the-basic-lookup-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 23:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Lookup Tables&#8217; are commonly created in relational data models and databases as part of the normalisation process. For example, instead of having address rows in an address table that continually repeat the words &#8216;HOME&#8217; or &#8216;WORK&#8217; to indicate if this is a customer&#8217;s home or work address, we might introduce an &#8216;AddressType&#8217; table, with a [...]]]></description>
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