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		<title>Padding with Zeroes in Sql Server</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2011/08/19/padding-with-zeroes-in-sql-server/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem: Take an integer column with a value like 123 and output it as four digits, prefixing with zero if necessary, i.e. 123 gets output as 0123. You get situations like this if, for example, you store e.g. the last four digits of a card number as an integer-type, and then try and output [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Mutual Friend Quotes</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2011/02/22/our-mutual-friend-quotes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2011/02/22/our-mutual-friend-quotes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years back I was given a set of Dicken&#8217;s novels, and have been reading them intermittently over that time. I&#8217;ve just started reading &#8216;Our Mutual Friend&#8217; - which has been harder-going than several of the other books I&#8217;ve seen so far&#8230; but there have been a couple of nice little sections which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boiler Overheat Lockout, Bypass Valves and Experts</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/12/20/boiler-overheat-lockout-bypass-valves-and-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/12/20/boiler-overheat-lockout-bypass-valves-and-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an apocryphal tale that goes something like: A man has a problem with his boiler that continues for months and causes him no end of bother.  Finally, an expert comes to see the boiler, and the expert taps the case a few times, tweaks a fitting&#8230; and then charges the man a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky</title>
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		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/09/17/hg-init-a-mercurial-tutorial-by-joel-spolsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this today and found it very interesting: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky.
There&#8217;s been talk at work about switching from Subversion to Mercurial, and this is a handy intro. Not that I am too troubled by Subversion; I know that it doesn&#8217;t help you as much as it could with merges&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Writing Solid Code&#8221; Plus 17</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/09/16/writing-solid-code-plus-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/09/16/writing-solid-code-plus-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My house-move is coming up soon, and after a review of my technical books, I decided that some books simply had to be re-read.  &#8220;Writing Solid Code - Microsoft&#8217;s Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs&#8221; by Steve Maguire fell into this category. Originally published in 1993, it was a book I had strongly positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY, Paint-Drips, and Code Refactoring</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/07/14/diy-paint-drips-and-code-refactoring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/07/14/diy-paint-drips-and-code-refactoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m moving soon! So, for various reasons, I am doing a whole load of painting-and-decorating to prepare to rent out my current flat.  Today I was putting the final coat of enamel onto a radiator, and while doing this I was really noticing the remnants of old paint-drips that I had not quite sanded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving to Windows 7 x64 for Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/04/05/moving-to-windows-7-x64-for-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/04/05/moving-to-windows-7-x64-for-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased and installed a new boot SSD, and rather than worry about copying my installation, I decided to get Windows 7; and further; to move to 64 bit. I had actually previously purchased a 64 bit version of Vista, but been baffled by an issue with lack of support for VPN 64-bit software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Keys is More Secure. Right?</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/03/27/more-keys-is-more-secure-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/03/27/more-keys-is-more-secure-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we had a heated discussion at work about encryption. We want to encrypt some data in our database, and I proposed that we go with a single private-key encryption mechanism (ignore which exact one for the moment), and my colleagues were pretty-much unanimously suggesting a &#8216;key per row&#8217; approach.  In this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Model Changes and Replication</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/03/13/data-model-changes-and-replication/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/03/13/data-model-changes-and-replication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little reminder note today on the simplest way to make data-model changes in SQL Server 2005 when the database is replicated via transactional replication.   This is from my own personal experience of replication and very-much muddling my way through learning how to use it effectively.  Otherwise, this posts presumes you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boolean Expressions</title>
		<link>http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/2010/03/05/boolean-expressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kebabShopBlues.co.uk/?p=490</guid>
		<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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