The Lost Hero – A review

With what looks to be five books planned in a new series by Rick Riordan, people have some good fantasy ahead of them. I just finished the first installment in this new series and must […]

MockingJay – a review

After a long wait, I have finally read the final installment in the “Hunger Games” trilogy.  I read the other two books earlier in the year in 2010 and then had to wait for the […]

Drumroll Please…

Defensive Db Programming Chapter 10 After dragging this review on for months now, it is finally time to bring this bad boy home and wrap it up.  I have been working through a chapter by […]

Defensive Db Programming Chapter 09

It is down to the final two chapters of the book by Alex Kuznetsova.  Check out the previous chapter here.  The review of this book is certainly taking longer to produce than I had planned. […]

Defensive Db Programming Chapter 08

We are slowly getting to the end of this book by Alex Kuznetsov (Blog).  You can find more on this series by looking here.  We are now discussing chapter 8 and it is a good chapter. […]

Blogger Awards

A few days ago I wrote about an election that was taking place (ok so it was a week ago at this point).  That election was the SQLServerpedia Awards.  My first post on that election […]

Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07

We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series.  Today we get to talk about chapter 7 in the book by Alex Kuznetsov (Blog). […]

The Year of the Phantom

It is amazing how fast time moves the older (and slower) we as humans get.  Looking back on time, it doesn’t seem to have been that long since I got married.  Today marks the 15th […]

Red Pyramid

After having read the Percy Jackson series of books, I wanted to read a few more books by Rick Riordan.  I happened across this book one day while browsing a local store.  It didn’t take […]

Keys to the Demon Prison

I recently finished reading Fablehaven, Book 5:Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  I found myself constantly looking forward to reading the book and couldn’t put the book down […]