In case you haven’t seen the show, this sums it up pretty well. Might even save you a weeks worth of life destructing DVDs.

I particularly like the point at the end of this actually. It really shows that everything in the middle doesn’t matter for the overarching point of the story, however it does matter in the entertaining manner it was presented.

Took the State of Web Development Survey a few months ago, and the results came back this week. Definitely some interesting stuff, especially the amount of people using JQuery. You can download all the responses in CSV format here.

I recently ran into an issue where a specific windows service **cough** oracle **cough** was really bogging down my machine. Since this particular service was not one I used on a daily basis, I set the service to start manually, rather than automatic at start up. Problem solved, however I now needed a quick way to get these services going again. Enter a batch file, with the following:

ECHO #### Starting Services... ####
ECHO ============================================================
net start <service name>
net start <service name>
net start <service name>

You can add as many services as you want, and also stop them with the net stop command. Just save that as a .bat file, and away you go.