Monthly Archives: December 2010

Downloading the Results of a Twitter Search using PowerShell and SQL (part 2)

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Richard

I’ve expanded a little on my Twitter project. (See part 1 here.) I adjusted the PowerShell script to page through the data going back as far as Twitter holds the data. There is still a lot to be done. Left … Continue reading →

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Who needs people?

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Richard

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. Proverbs 18:1 Last week I wrote a bit about parenthood. I’ve been dwelling a lot on fatherhood and that’s forced me to take a good look … Continue reading →

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Downloading the results of a Twitter Search using PowerShell

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Richard

I’m trying to learn PowerShell because I need to automate some things. I was a little skeptical about all the hype surrounding PowerShell. What could it possibly do the Perl didn’t? But I knew it integrated really well with .NET … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tuesday # 13 – Asking the business good questions

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Richard

Fatherhood involves more than just having dried food on your shirt. People expect you to do crazy things like wave your arms like a muppet or impart wisdom to the next generation. I don’t know that I have much wisdom … Continue reading →

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Generating Random Data for Testing

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Richard

Recently I was faced with the need to generate lots of data for a presentation. There is a temptation in situations like this to grab some data from a production system and obfuscate it somehow. My advice to you is … Continue reading →

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