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A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek.
She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again.
Finally she spoke up, "Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart," he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she paused, "Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed, honey," he said, "God made you a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, "He's getting better at it, isn't he?"
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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So I log onto MSDN to download some software and it seems they are giving away a Ford Fusion if you try out Azure .... then I noticed it wasn't a Fusion. Must be terrible that a super car is nearly indistinguishable visually from sub 20k vehicle.
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It does look quite a bit like the 2014 Ford Fusion[^] although the 2013 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Coupe[^] you can win on MSDN is only a 2-door.
Perhaps if you win, you can request to get the Fusion instead. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I think I'd rather have the Fusion. Between the sales tax and insurance rates on the Aston Martin (not to mention having to build a new garage to keep it in), I couldn't afford it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Just sell it then and BUY yourself the Fusion... 
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I just received an email from Axosoft offering me a complimentary copy of "Unit Testing Succinctly". Your fame spreads.
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Reading mine now.
/ravi
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I read it the day he posted about it. While I'd have liked in depth coverage of Mocks/Stubs as well as the full TDD cycle, it's amazing how much he's managed to fit in.
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Dear M.O'Hanlon,
Thank you for your kind offer to help us getting rid of our stock of remaining books. Here a copy of the one currently preventing us from accessing the toilets, the kitchen, and three other offices.
Axosoft.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
modified 18-Sep-13 5:20am.
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Indeed. Those ebooks don't half clutter up the place don't they?
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An article from the Insider within the last week has prompted me to look at graph databases.
From what I can see, they may be able to provide funtionality I've been looking for.
We have multiple data collections servers that are connected via data transfer systems. Each data collection server may itself have 20 or 30 remote applications providing it with data. Following the rabbit trail of how did this data point get to its end user can be... daunting.
So, what advice from the trenches in terms of graph databases? What have you used and what are your opinions?
As always, appreciation in advance.
Tim
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I read an article that covered the key graph databases and some have very unique use cases. I'll be damned if I can find it again, so maybe worth starting at the wiki page with the comparative features tables.
The ones I looked at and read about, Neo4j for some reason caught my attention, although never actually used it. http://www.neotechnology.com/neo4j-graph-database/[^]
Cheers,
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How is it that the agent (graph) is ever going to be more powerful than the thing it represents (data)? Images of connected points?
Being a TSQL user yourself, maybe the idea of "geospatial" datatypes like geometry and geography and the decorated interface that ssmse becomes in 2008 when it displays the projection of them is illustrative of why I question the sense of "database" here.
Perhaps the graph as something entirely different? Inspirational?
I can see that ...
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Depends on what the data is and what you have to do with it, e.g. validation and finding exceptions in the data becomes almost trivial.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Read that at work today and tried installing the nightly build at home on my Windows 8. Failed miserably. I'm going to have to try again soon with the release build.
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Well what did he expect.[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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O tempora, o mores! Oh, how ironic.
FTFY
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Beat me to it 
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No, don't think so.
I was playing deliberately for the staccato of the 'O's and of course there is no comma in Latin.
(Cicero would be whirling in his urn).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Be that is it may, tempora precedes mores. You can't wiggle out of that neither by the non existing commata in latin nor your staccato intention. That funny disease you insist upon having is what others might perceive as some kind of ass holiness.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Dalek Dave wrote: there is no comma in Latin
True, but that highlights the point that your Latin construction is incorrect, because where you'd want a comma after a clause in English, you should use the enclitic "que" suffix on the first word of the next clause.
But "O Mores Oque Tempora Oque How Ironic" sounds kinda woody.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dum imitatur ars vitae.
Imagine that. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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While it is imitating art it is life?
Surely Vitae imitatur ars?
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Romanes eunt domus
This message is manufactured from fully recyclable noughts and ones. To recycle this message, please separate into two tidy piles, and take them to your nearest local recycling centre.
Please note that in some areas noughts are always replaced with zeros by law, and many facilities cannot recycle zeroes - in this case, please bury them in your back garden and water frequently.
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Gypsies eat doughnuts?
speramus in juniperus
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