9 Jun
2005

ConnectionBuilder in ADO.Net 2.0

This is a blatant ripoff from Aaron Skonnard, but I have to quote it to get across the idea of the post.  Check this new class out, very sweet. SqlConnectionStringBuilder connbuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(); connbuilder.DataSource = “localhost”; connbuilder.UserID = “someuser”; connbuilder.Password = “somepassword”; SqlConnection c = new SqlConnection (connbuilder.ConnectionString); c.Open(); … // do something with […]

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9 Jun
2005

Good to Great by Jim Collins

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I read Good to Great by Jim Collins during my stay in Houston.  The book is a study of publicly traded companies that met a particular set of criteria of out performing the general market.  The companies must have “turned themselves around” to out perform the market by at X 3 and must have done […]

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