Stored Procedure are Wonderful/Evil

The same old “stored procedures are wonderful/evil” debate is again being practiced at the Joel on Software forums.

Enjoy.

So, Farewell Then Dizwell

I’m sorry to hear that Howard Rogers has decided to shut down his Dizwell Informatics website, citing the workload of managing it and the number of people raising issues with articles when they plainly were not following the directions. Personally I used nearly all of Howard’s install articles and found every one of them to be of the highest quality. They saved me a lot of time and trouble over the past year or so.

I’m just guessing, but I expect that starting a new job and the need to move back into the Big City doesn’t help with the workload either, and I can certainly sympathise with that — I have a backlog of six or seven technical articles floating around in draft form at the moment but with an impending move, search for “new opportunities”, and three kids to find schools and daycares for I haven’t much hope of getting to grips with them at the moment.

Anyhoo, I hope that Howard will continue to make a public contribution through other sites, and maybe consider sending those handy articles on to a new online home.

Another Example of Asking Too Much

In this case, asking just about everything.

What is the appropriate response to a forum question such as:

Burleson Forum Hacked?

I got a cryptic email from the forum administrator email at the Burleson Consulting forum, suggesting that it had been hacked. Seems like the forums are gone, though the software is running.