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This is a collection of articles I have written. Some of my articles pertain exclusively to my workplace, and I have tried not publish anything here that won't make sense outside of my work environment. If you see anything that doesn't make sense, please let me know.

*Any code in these articles is either released to the public domain or subject to the license specified by the original authors.

*BSD

Anything pertaining to *BSD operating systems.

[2010-02-18] Blocking slow SSH brute force attempts with PF
Tired of seeing hundreds of failed login attempts in your auth logs?
[2009-06-25] Installing PostgreSQL 8.3 on FreeBSD
A quick guide to installing PostgreSQL on FreeBSD.
[2006-06-24] Using Samba to share files with Win32 clients
Windows is dumb when it comes to file sharing, luckily Samba is smart.
[2006-06-16] Building an IP-less Bridging Firewall with OpenBSD
How I learned to stop worrying and love OpenBSD.
[2006-06-13] Setting up a Teamspeak server on FreeBSD
Talk to your friends over the internet.
[2006-05-29] How I set up the webcam for this site
Sharing a webcam with vistors to your site.
[2005-02-04] Using OpenBSD as a NAT router/firewall on a Broadband Connection
Replace your Linksys router with something more fun.

Networking

Articles dealing with networking, administration and related topics.

[2008-10-14] Rancid Patches
Rancid patches for Dell switches and Netscreen firewalls.

MS SQL Server

A series of articles I wrote at work about Microsoft SQL Server development and administration.

[2004-12-15] SQL Smackdown 12.15.2004
Partitioned Views, Alter Table, Update and Delete Tricks
[2004-04-02] SQL Smackdown 4.2.2004
Query Analyzer Tips
[2003-08-01] SQL Smackdown 8.1.2003
Locking Hints, sp_executesql, String Manipulation, Derived Tables Expanded
[2003-02-17] SQL Smackdown 2.17.2003
Trees and Hierarchies, Nested Sets
[2003-01-14] SQL Smackdown 1.14.2003
Join Tricks, Dynamic Top, Coalesce, Quick Tips
[2002-10-08] SQL Smackdown 10.8.2002
Temp Tables, Joins, Indexes Expanded, Derived Tables
[2002-06-20] SQL Smackdown 6.29.2002
Transactions, Index Basics
[2002-05-09] SQL Smackdown 5.9.2002
Transact SQL, DTS

Web Development

Anything and everything pertaining to web development.

[2007-02-27] Converting the articles page to AJAX
A quick overview of the code for making use of AJAX for the articles page.
[2005-01-09] Things I learned about XHTML from converting this site
Random obvervations and comments about XHTML.
[2001-03-22] Useful JScript Functions
These could save you a lot of time if you use JScript.

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