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My Twitter Page

So I joined the revolution into the new internet fad Twitter recently, and although I’m having trouble with some bugs (I think…) I’m having fun reading other people’s profiles.
My page is http://twitter.com/Codesleuth – followers welcome

DataRow[DataColumn] performance enhancements

Since the system I work on performs about 1000 DataTable specific manipulations per minute, I’ve been going through and working out some ways to speed it up that little bit more. Take the following code:
DataTable myData = new DataTable();
myData.ReadXml(“myxml.xml”);
if (myData.Rows[0].IsNull(“column1″))
    return null;
else
    return myData.Rows[0]["column1"];
The obvious performance improvement here is to first pull out the column [...]

Snoutbreak 09 Media Pandemic

You’ve probably caught a glimpse of the ‘pandemic’ ‘outbreak’ of swine influenza that is doing the rounds in the media at the moment.
I thought I would contribute to the (excuse the pun) tripe that we’re all faced with and raise a point we’re all thinking: this is media hype.
Look at any news network, paper, or [...]

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