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Category: Technology
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The Interactive Fiction SMS Text Based App I Never Built
I wondered if I could build a SMS/text-based interactive fiction (IF) app. This is a story of how I researched the problem, but…
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Building the LongView
In the spring of 2005 I ran an Indianapolis Game Development meetup called Indy Game Dev. It had one other member. We…
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Explaining the 2015 Internet to 1995 Me
Dear Erich from 1995, I can listen to whatever I want whenever I want. When you’re 20 you’ll get excited about being…
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How Can I Get Microsoft Office for Free?
I get this question a lot. People assume either Microsoft Office comes with their computer or that it’s free. It’s not free,…
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Normalization, Unions, Joins, and Locking in Microsoft SQL
What is a normalized database? Database normalization is the process of organizing the fields and tables of a relational database to minimize…
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How to Join a Fuze Meeting
This video explains how to join a Fuze Meeting from the invite to the download to the installation.
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Creating Custom Views in Microsoft SQL
In part 3 I continue building on the table structure I learned about in part 2 of my training on How to…
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SQL Identity Specification and Data Types
Continuing the process of learning SQL, last time I wrote about SQL primary keys. Today I learned to disallow “null” from primary…
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Microsoft SQL Primary Keys
I’m in the process of learning SQL and in so doing have started learning Microsoft SQL using Microsoft’s SQL Management Studio. It’s…