Archive for March, 2006:

Friday fun – solving Sudoku with SQL

{ Posted on Mar 31 2006 by annegentle }
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Using SQL in interesting ways Stumbled across these links on my Digg RSS feed. Two articles showing how to solve Sudoku puzzles with T-SQL and with Oracle SQL. I've been writing database doc long enough to find ...Read More »

ITIL and monitoring

{ Posted on Mar 30 2006 by annegentle }
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How monitoring your infrastructure can provide a base layer for ITIL practices I'm relatively new to BMC Performance Manager but I've learned a lot in the past year or so about the capabilities and how it fits into the ...Read More »

How to create help files for custom BMC Performance Managers

{ Posted on Mar 23 2006 by annegentle }
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Cross-platform browser HTML-based help is built right in to the SDK for BMC Performance Manager All this is documented in the Controlled Availability release of the BMC Performance Manager Software Development Kit (SDK), but I thought I'd write ...Read More »

RSS Roundup

{ Posted on Mar 22 2006 by annegentle }
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I've been reading and learning about RSS (Really Simple Syndication) lately and thought I'd share RSS must be hitting the big time since Microsoft will support RSS reading in the new version of Internet Explorer, IE7. Charlie ...Read More »

SXSW Interactive 2006 takeaways

{ Posted on Mar 17 2006 by annegentle }
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South by SouthWest Interactive is done, what did I learn? This year's Interactive conference was interesting to say the least, because I was too sick to attend two day's worth of sessions. So, I've been listening to ...Read More »

A trip report from SXSW Interactive 2003

{ Posted on Mar 14 2006 by annegentle }
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Let's jump into the wayback machine to 2003 for a walk down SXSWi memory lane Here is my SXSW Interactive trip report from three years ago. Over the next few days, I'll post my thoughts on the sessions from ...Read More »

On my way to SXSW Interactive

{ Posted on Mar 11 2006 by annegentle }
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I'm on my way to SXSWi 2006 I last attended SXSW Interactive in 2003. Just three short years ago I was ... enamored with CSS... awed by search engine technology and Google... struck by Flash's ...Read More »

Sesame Street lessons learned

{ Posted on Mar 08 2006 by annegentle }
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A roundup of some Sesame Street items I found Globalization Lessons from Sesame Street on Going Global the other day and thought it was really interesting. I have worked on very few globalization efforts related to ...Read More »

Our DITA experience at BMC Software

{ Posted on Mar 02 2006 by annegentle }
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With The Rockley Report now available for free, I can point you to a case study about our use of DITA. DITA stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture, an XML-based information architecture design originally ...Read More »