Phil Scott's WebLog

Inspired by Bill Simmon’s list of underrated movies, here’s my list of the top eight underrated classes in the .NET framework.

A lot of developers commonly prefix their stored procedures with sp_.  sp stands for stored procedure, and that's how Microsoft did their stored procedures, so that should be the naming convention, right?  Nope.  Sp stands for system procedure.  As for a naming convention, I personally like usp if I'm going to use one.  Frankly speaking though, enterprise manager, ADO.NET and query analyzer kinda make prefixing stored procedures with sp a bit pointless if you ask me, so I don't use them at all. 

Brian's post about dragging and dropping assemblies onto the toolbox was pretty cool. Didn't know that.

Today during class I demonstrated Janus System's GridEx control.  Big hit.  I think I actually probably sold two copies of the thing by just showing the class the Northwind demo of it.  Anyways, anyone have a custom control they can't live without?  One preferrably with a free demo version I can play with (or a free copy for me to use in class would be cool too). 

Didn't mean to start a PDC cost analysis flame war.  I was just hoping to buy the DVDs of the conference.  But all this peer pressure and Scoble's talk of the PDC has pushed me to the edge.  I checked my schedule, and I'm scheduled to teach an Intro to Programming class.  This, I can get around.  As for plane tickets, I might be able to finnagle my mom's frequent flyer mileage with a little pity party.  As for the $1600, well, hmmm.  Hope my girlfriend will like coupons for backrubs for her birthday (side note: she would). Truthfully, I could probably drum up $1600 doing consulting work by then. 

I was going to post this in Pascal's comments in response to Robert, but what the heck:

I saw a link on MSDN about the DoS that was targeted at Microsoft.  Cool I thought, I always like reading how people go about fixing these problems.  No dice, it was just blah blah blah we contacted the authorities, no problems with MS software.  Boring...

I just got done tweaking our site to feature the Exchange Server 2003 Loadfest.  I've personally never heard of this before, but from what I've gathered is that you bring your own server to our center, and basically walk through a one day course with your system so when you get back to the office you've been there done and done that.  Has anyone ever gone to one of these?  Has anyone taught one of these?  Does anyone actually rip out their rackmounted server and drag it in? :-).