Archive for August, 2006

Database tag clouds

August 28th, 2006

I’m always more than happy to see how dbdesc users customize dbdesc templates for their own needs. Last week, Jasper Verweij posted a comment sharing his idea of building tag clouds using database objects.
It’s indeed a very useful idea because it shows which objects are “more important” on your database. After a couple of email […]

MSDE not supported on Windows Vista

August 14th, 2006

This may be old news for you, but I’ve just discovered that MSDE will not be supported on Vista. After thinking about it, it is not a big surprise. Microsoft is promoting SQL Server 2005 really hard. Indeed, SQL Server 2005 Express edition seems a lot better than the old MSDE. It has no workload […]

Happy TiddlyWiki user

August 12th, 2006

Last week I checked out TiddlyWiki as it has been mentioned several times on JoS forums recently.
I’m impressed. It so useful and easy to use that I’m using it as the main way to communicate my progress on a custom development project I’m working on.
It’s basically a self-contained wiki. Just one html file. No setup […]