Bob Duffy's Blobby Blog

I've been doing some performance comparisons of JDBC from Java with ADO.Net from Dot.net. One key thing that jumps out at me is JDBC tends to make more use of prepared statement, even to the point of abusing the poor thing.  I see some mid-tier manufacturer...

Thanks to everyone who was the the first Irish Java Developers Conferance ( http://ijtc.firstport.ie ). Hopefully there will be a repeat performance next year. Many people were surprised to see Microsoft at the event, I guess this is a sign of the times...

Just got this link to an article on using Group Policy to auto log off users and a whole rake of other settings - nice ;-) On something like a SQL Server I think this should be in a standard build. http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Managing...

If like me you use remote desktop a lot and are constantly hitting the two user limit, here's a great tip. Add a second copy of the remote desktop to icon captioned "Remote Console" with the same path but an extra flag "/console". This will allow you...

At last one of the most important blogs for those interested in VLDB has a dedicated site http://sqlcat.com/Default.aspx If you are implmenting a TB plus DWH or BI solution make sure you check out this site. The Customer Advisory Team is involved in...

Scott Guthrie just recently announced the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Which is promises to bring similar benefits to Ruby on Rails, but looks to be mega extensible of of course be build completely on dot.net 3.5 Great video: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu...

I'be been looking at Grails and I have to say it rocks, just off to buy the T-shirt now. I'm not sure if there is something quite as sexy in the dot.net world yet for RAD (someone flame me if there is !). The concepts of "Dont Repeat Yourself" is something...

There's a great guest speaker coming to the IJTC (Joel Spolsky) who must be one of the most famous bloggers full stop. He wil be delivering the Key Notes for the IJTC event starting on the 8th. Even better there a raffle for a champagne reception...