Shane on April 17th, 2008

I love seeing companies trying unconventional ways to motivate their employees to keep them healthy, happy, and more productive.
The folks at 37 Signals have always been pushing this envelope. They have a small office in Chicago, but less than half of their (dozen or so) employees work there with the rest are spread out [...]

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Shane on April 16th, 2008

I might need to come up with more material to blog about so that this doesn’t become a list of articles that somebody else if feeding me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octMaIKiSUA

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Shane on April 14th, 2008

A friend of mine from a way back, Mike Mettler, broadcasts these URLs every once in a while through his GMail profile. Mike is a smart guy, and the articles usually deal with some issue that is out there simmering but hasn’t come to a boil yet. They lay out a problem (often one that [...]

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Shane on February 20th, 2008

My almost two year-old daughter, Dora, loves to read Sandra Boynton.
She loves the pictures. She loves to laugh at all the punchlines. Her
recent favorite is Philadelphia Chickens, which is a book/CD combo by
Ms. Boynton. Dora asks for the book by the name “Cows” which is the
title of the first song. I think I speak for [...]

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Shane on June 28th, 2007

When I was working with Oracle, I got hooked on using MINUS and INTERSECT. Well, it turns out that Microsoft implemented these functions in a slightly different way in SQL 2005.
Jeff Smith lays out a nice example here.

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Shane on April 19th, 2007

My friend Gary is fulfilling his life-long dream to take a trip around the world. This being the internet age, we get to follow along from the comfort of our living rooms without having to get the shots. I encourage you to check it out. Gary is one of the funniest and smartest people I [...]

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Shane on April 2nd, 2007

Here’s a little BI humor for anyone from one of my favorite BI writers: Donald Farmer.

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