Rob Garrett - Blogs

December 2005 - Posts

• What makes a good manager?

  I had a great Christmas this year, eating, drinking and conversing with family (as I always do). This particular year, I got talking with Uncle Bob – a retired product manager from IBM – and we were conversing about what qualities make a good manager. Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:08 PM by Rob Garrett | 4 Comments

• T-SQL Transactions

  I do not confess to being a database expert, nor a guru in T-SQL, which is why I have only just found out how crap transactions in T-SQL on SQL Server 2000 can be. Take a look at the following piece of T-SQL: CREATE TABLE #Foo ( PK int NOT NULL ) CREATE Read More... Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:03 PM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments

• Trapping Javascript Errors

  Jonathan Cogley posts a neat way to trap Javascript errors on a web page, followed by the firing of a server-side exception, so .NET code can be written to email the developer responsible. http://weblogs.asp.net/jcogley/archive/2005/12/07/432584.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:51 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments

• Ding! Rob has posted again...

  If, having your feed reader tell you that there is a new post on my blog, is not enough, then I come to your rescue with MSN Alerts. Click the image link below (or on the side bar of my blog) and you can subscribe to receive an email or cell phone notification Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:18 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments

• Time for a change

  Aside of being busy at the office this week, as the project I am working on revs up into its implementation phase, I have been devoting a lot of my spare time looking into getting one of these . A friend of mine says that he can always tell how busy someone Read More... Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 11:05 PM by Rob Garrett | 3 Comments

• Firefox 1.5

  Oh righty, I am now running on the new version of Firefox (1.5), but the installation didn't quite go that smoothly... Since I am running as LUA , like a good little boy, I flipped on over to a Windows account with administrative rights, made sure that Read More... Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 10:27 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments