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Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:30 PM

More On Machine Translation: A Response for Hugo

No, that's not "moron machine translation", but if you read Hugo Kornelis' candid and very helpful comments on Tuesday's Windows Live Translator post , you're certainly aware that machine translation (MT) has its pitfalls. The pun in the paragraph above
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:30 PM

Don't Like My English? Try Me In Portuguese (and Eleven Other Languages) With Windows Live Translator!

This is the coolest thing I've seen in quite awhile.. Microsoft Server and Tools (the group that brings you, among others, the MSDN , TechNet , Expression , and CodePlex sites) is leveraging the latest translation technology from Windows Live and Microsoft
Posted by Ward Pond | 3 Comments
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:15 PM

Pond's Seventh Law Inspires a Question: Elegance Serving Randomness

Marc left a great question on a Pond's Laws post from July of 2006 : Hi, I have a flashcard system that randomly pulls a word from the database. I also have a testing module that allows a user to test him or her self on words. For each word the user answers
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:30 PM

A Month and a Day in Florida

We are 32 days in Florida as of today, and so far it's been a marvelous experience. All three boys are thriving in school. I haven't seen so many A's since my mother's book club read The Scarlet Letter. * Good on you, boys! Connectivity in the home office
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:00 PM

Victory! Broadband Connectivity from my Home Office in the Boondocks

Now the story can be told..  the last couple weeks have not been pretty around here, connectivity wise.  Think of a duck..  paddling like the dickens underwater to keep things going while looking calm and serene from above. Note that if
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:00 PM

Nullity: The Gift (of Nothingness) That Keeps On Giving

Almost three years after the post was originally published in October of 2005, Mark Johansen, author of A Sane Approach to Database Design (an approach I trust it's clear I favor) has left a terrific comment on the Do Not Fear NULLs article which is worthy
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:30 PM

TOP, ORDER BY, and Non-Unique Columns

One of the comments I accidentally deleted earlier this afternoon posed the following question (paraphrased): I understand that TOP with ORDER BY makes no sense, but what about when I use different values for TOP and I ORDER BY a column that has duplicate
Posted by Ward Pond | 1 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:15 PM

Non-Technical News: Lessons from Benihana and Brandon Roy

Yesterday was a big day in our household. In addition to our two resident mothers, we also commemorated our eldest son's sixteenth birthday. Earlier in the week, after a delicate negotiation, we agreed on a blended celebration dinner at the Benihana restaurant
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 6:45 PM

Two Pieces of Technical News from Kalen

Kalen Delaney has one of the most consistently informative SQL Server blogs in all of the Internets, and unless I miss my guess, it was also she who left the first of the very supportive comments I've received in the wake of my recent series of personal
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:30 AM

R.I.P. Tun-Hsu "Martha" McCoy -- and Thank You!

Every once in awhile, you get a piece of news that sets you looking at where you are and where you've been. Today is one of those days. There will be no technical content in this post, and it might ramble some. Bear with me; it's been a contemplative night..
Posted by Ward Pond | 10 Comments
Friday, March 21, 2008 7:15 AM

Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick, Finalized

It's an especially Good Friday when we can close the loop on a technical conversation, and I believe that our modifications to The Technique That Lance Found , also discussed here and here , are complete.  Scott Whigham left a comment on the most
Posted by Ward Pond | 2 Comments
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:15 PM

Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick, Sans Entitization

When last we checked in on The Technique That Lance Found , Adam had noted that the method entitizes XML special characters, a state of affairs which limits its utility somewhat.  I tried to leverage Tony Rogerson's technique , which Adam passed
Posted by Ward Pond | 3 Comments
Saturday, March 15, 2008 1:15 AM

Another Word On For-Fee Aggregators

One more post before I turn in.. Blogging is about passion and community, which may well be two sides of the same coin.  Our passion makes us a community.  Even though I don't read the output of my fellows in the SQL Server blogosphere nearly
Posted by Ward Pond | 0 Comments
Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:30 AM

Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick Revisited (Or, Adam Is Right, But We Can Fix It)

A find shared by one friend leads to correspondence from another.. The redoubtable Adam Machanic left a comment on The Technique That Lance Found which points out that special XML characters in a string will get entitized. As usual, Adam is correct. If
Posted by Ward Pond | 4 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:00 PM

Database Programming: The String Concatenation XML Trick

Courtesy of my good friend and once-and-always colleague, Lance Larsen, who writes: I recently ran into this little trick. Joining two tables having a one-to-many relationship and stuffing a set of column values from the many side into a single column
Posted by Ward Pond | 4 Comments
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