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sphinx :: adding a new theme

Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) has made our internal documentation effort go a lot smoother, and the autodoc extension has provided much needed motivation for writing useful docstrings. For those unfamiliar with autodoc, a simple declaration in your documentation file: [sourcecode language=”python”] .. … Continue reading

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GoDaddy upgraded me to appalling response times…

I seem to be having just piles of problems with my GoDaddy hosting lately.  I’ve been a customer since 2006, but suddenly this June (2010) the database holding my blog went *poof*. Having spent a lot of time on archive.org … Continue reading

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Syntax highlighting…

Syntax hiliting is the ability to get code samples in your blog to look like they do in your editor… without having to add steps, or code, that brings you out of the “flow” of your article. Like this: [sourcecode … Continue reading

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db :: adding "missing" foreign key constraints (tsql)

I had the following tables [sourcecode language=”sql”] create table customer ( id int identity primary key, … ) create table foo_orders ( orderno int identity primary key, customerid int, … ) [/sourcecode] after various failed attempts at “alter column”, “add … Continue reading

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