Windows Metro – The Lowest Common Denominator The title is to get your attention. The fact is that Windows Metro will not necessarily be the Lowest Common Denominator anymore than other devices supporting tablet/smart phone style manipulations, primarily touch screens. Many good hardware devices are designed around the Android OS, which the Metro look and feel appears to emulate in […]

Metro Style Apps…is the Mouse Out? Dana brings me down to earth with her insight into keyboard commands for later versions of Office. For example, when reviewing my understanding of the new Metro Style design principles, I used the changes in Office as an example of making work harder. I have been using Microsoft Excel since 1985….yes, ’85. It was […]

Will Metro Style Apps Take Off? Personally, I’m torn about the prospect. Microsoft has moved from powerful, efficient GUI applications to simplistic, intuitive applications. I used to be able to do so much more in Excel without using the keyboards, or constantly switching between function buttons in the toolbar. For example, to switch windows from one spreadsheet to another all […]

Oracle Sponsors MySql Innovation Day MySQL is one of the most popular SQL engines in use today, from small to large installations on commodity hardware to big iron. Tuesday, June 5th Oracle will be hosting a MySQL webcast demonstrating the latest vision of MySQL with the Oracle influence. The following add is take verbatim from their Email. Mobile, Social, Web […]

Real World Common Table Expressions Maurice writes our newsletter today with some gold nuggets wrapped around different uses for Common Table Expresssions CTE are a great way to express business logic into SQL, by breaking querying elements into more meaningful part. I usually give them long names that express the meaning of each step into SQL. CTE makes rewriting of […]