Source Control is Your Friend

I use source control religiously in my development. I would never think of writing code without saving it in a source control system and checking in "early and often".

So why was I hand-editing the template for my blog without first saving the old version? Misplaced confidence, that's why. Of course I made one too many changes and completely screwed it up.

Since I had no source, I had to rebuild it from another blog's template. It is now under source control.

This is a lesson I learned many years ago. I just keep learning it over and over.

Rob

Back from PASS 2006

I had a great time at PASS 2006. The classes were great. The keynotes were great. I got to have lunch with two great people from Microsoft, Cihangir Biyikoglu (Cihan) and Ward Pond.

I have been working with Cihan for quite awhile now and always value his knowledge and advice. His class on Friday was very well attended and quite interesting.

I had been reading Ward's blog but had never met him. I just commented in his blog that I would like to meet him. We spent an hour and a half talking Friday at lunch about design, Microsoft, the plight of development-focused database people*, and many other topics.

Overall, it was a great week and definitely worth all the money Corillian paid for me to be there.

Rob

* The question: Why do so many organizations have database administrators to clean up the problems in their databases. Why not just hire more (and/or better) database developers so that the databases are designed and programmed better? Then there wouldn't be such a mess to clean up.

Is SqlJunkies.com Abandoned?

So much for my idea of continuing to write for SqlJunkies.com. All indications are that the site has been abandoned. I sent e-mail to someone at CMP Media, but I have not received a response.

So, I am looking for alternatives. I do want to continue to write for someone.

Wish me luck.

Rob