The More You Know

For those of you not familiar with Stage6 (Possibly a dead link now), it was a website that used the high quality DivX format to provide streaming video content. It was, simply put, amazing. When I say that I don’t mean it lightly either. The player integrated easily into FireFox and Internet Explorer. It even supported Linux users with player, distribution and application information. On top of that the website was simple, intuitive, fast and provided high quality videos that could be watched full screen and made YouTube look like a joke.

“Then why is it going offline?” … Continue Reading

I think the hardest part of paintball, was actually getting my first set of gear. I couldn’t find a good source of information that told me all the newbie things I didn’t know I needed to ask. I’ve been playing consistently for awhile now and I feel that I can now write the article that I desperately searched for.

This guide is aimed at players who have never played paintball or have with borrowed/rented equipment and played a few times and want to buy their own equipment. It is written with the perspective of indoor speed ball. It … Continue Reading

When working with relational data in a stateless environment (e.g. web applications) it is sometimes not known if something is being created (insert) or being updated. This is generally seen when an object has an 0..N number of sub elements.

When the data from the user is to be processed, it would be best to handle both inserting and updating with a single statement. Developers new to databases generally handle this transaction with multiple statements using conditional “IF” statements to determine the number of rows a result set has. Based on the number of rows (0 or 1) an … Continue Reading