Zed Shaw – The ACL is Dead from CUSEC on Vimeo.

This is a great presentation by Zed Shaw (author of Mongrel Web Server). The first section of the presentation is about ACL and the limitations of ACL. The next half (the half I enjoyed the most) was basically how to survive and how to ‘keep your soul’ as a programmer. There are alot of struggles and obstacles to overcome when you exist as a programmer in the corporate world who does not understand what we do. Zed has alot of great suggestions as to how to communicate and work with the corporate culture and to make much needed progress. He also gives some great advice on how to save your inner creativity from being sucked away by the ‘factory line’.

I ran into an interesting problem today when trying to call a stored procedure from a linked server ‘Server not configured for RPC’. SQL 2000 uses RPC (Remote Procedural Calls) which is basically XML representing Objects on the server. The linked in server must be configured to handle this and by default SQL 2000 servers are not. It’s very simple to setup though all you need do is run the following:

exec sp_serveroption @server='servername/IP', @optname='rpc', @optvalue='true'
exec sp_serveroption @server='servername/IP', @optname='rpc out', @optvalue='true'

or you can go into your enterprise manager or SQL studio, right click on the Linked server and select ‘Server Options’ and select ‘True’ for ‘RPC’ and ‘RPC Out’.

Recently I’ve been working through some optimizations to some code and realized that there are alot of programmers who don’t know some programming best practices. There is alot to do with the performance of a program with how the programmer wrote it. Here are some things to concider:
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Yates Jarvis posted an interesting article on Google expanding their advertising on yahoo. Google adsense has been the gold standard for internet advertising for quite some time now and it just got better. It seems that these days everyone is trying to get a piece of Yahoo. Google has the most significant piece of the market share, but microsoft wants in. They have been trying to wiggle their way in with yahoo which hasn’t happened so far. Now it looks like Google has made headway with Yahoo and pushed Microsoft further away. Yahoo seems to (wisely) want to work both ends of the spectrum. Google has alot of technology and success, Microsoft has alot of money. Win win situation for them.