Kill all the SQL connections for a DB or app
One of customers needed to be able to clear all of the connections to a database before running some maintenance tasks on the database. So the question came...
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I’m bothered by the idea of using the homeless as office infrastructure
There has been a lot of comments regarding the use the of homeless people at the SxSW Interactive conference as roving hotspots. BBH Labs, a NYC based marke...
Ratcheting up the scroll with my Logitech mouse
With the PC that gets used by the family, we use a wireless Logitech mouse. It’s the VX Revolution. It’s a few years old, but it has all the functionality th...
An open letter to Newport Television
This is a copy of an email that I just sent to Newport Television, owners of WXXA-FOX23
Replacing GetHostByName with GetHostAddresses
I’m working on some C# code that needs to send some data over a socket connection. The user can specify the destination by name or by IP address. I was usi...