In my question Insert Update stored proc on SQL Server I explained an efficient way of doing an insert/update - perhaps THE most efficient. It's nothing amazing but it's a small algorithm that I came up with in a mini-Eureka moment. Although I had "invented" it by myself and secretly hoped that I was the first to do so I knew that it had...
A few years back I stumbled across the code on the cob series of articles over at www.gamedev.net. One article that particularly intrigued me was the one relating to programming 'stages'. In it, the author (Chris Hargrove), describes how he believes that there are specific moments throughout a programmers career where they fundamentally...
I once built a very good web application in ASP (classic) back in 2001 and extensively used XmlHttpRequest object in it. (I was lucky that the clients were only using IE, and only IE supported this object at that time). Then later when people started talking about AJAX in 2005, It felt good to have used something ahead (or early) of it...