I xxking love science

Take a look at this face book page, you will love it! https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience

Entity framework and varchar

Just learned about EF and varchar types. EF strings are unicode and when querying database, it will cause performance problems (I was surprised by this, one would assume it should cast to varchar first...). There are 2 solutions, one is to use EntityFunctions.AsNonUnicode, i.e. from t in table where t.id == EntityFunctions.AsNonUnicode(id) The other is use attribute, [Column(TypeName = "varchar")] on the field.

7 Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server

This is from Brent Ozar: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2013/02/7-things-developers-should-know-about-sql-server/

The reality of a developer's life

Very funny link for us developers :-) http://www.lordofthejars.com/

EF decimal precision

Encountered a strange problem at work. Entity framework code first, entity's decimal field always save to 2 decimal points even though the field has 4. Turned out in EF4 you need to specify percision: modelBuilder.Entity().Property(e=> e.property).HasPrecision(x, d);

Cool HTML5 page

Very cool, roll and see some of the tricks :-) http://fff.cmiscm.com/#!/main Also some tests seems run faster with IE, but some can't be run on IE.

This will definitely cheer you up

The link blew. I just can't stop laughing at some of that. http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/people-who-are-having-a-worse-day-than-you