I’ve been playing around with SQL Server 2008 CTP, exploring the benefits of the new HIERARCHYID datatype, which has been designed to efficiently store depth-first tree structures in SQL Server 2008. My requirements were to store URI paths such as ones you might find in URLs, whereby each path component is held as a separate record in a table. Each path component refers to a folder in file system, e.g. URL: http://www.vamosa.com/index/information_solutions/technology_and_products/vamosa_content_migrator.htm URI: path:...

I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR and Flex 3 Beta 1… I reserve opinion on these technologies because I haven’t used them enough. But I thought I’d leave a wee tip… One thing that’s really useful to Flex 3/AIR coders is the ActionScript 3 CoreLib (AS3CoreLib). It contains MD5, JSON, and some other really useful ‘routines’. Following are guidelines on getting AS3CoreLib compiled for Flex 3 Moxie. ...