Markdown + Make versus Microsoft Word
8
April
I have written a short note about using make and sed with Markdown
to maintain a collection of HTML documents. Programmers are forever writing
documentation (proposals, specifications, technical notes, and so on),
and the latest stage in my quest to make writing prose as frictionless
as possible
I have started using Markdown to do this.
Before that I wrote in HTML with some XML mixed in to better handle
sectioning; before that I used Microsoft Word.
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Cryptographically secured tickets using Microsoft SQL Server with pwdencrypt
11
April
O Google, accept my offering of a method of doing SHA-1-secured
authentication in a stored procedure on Microsoft SQL Server 7 using
the undocumented function pwdencrypt. This proved useful to me
recently, so let it be discovered by developers in the future.
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