About Jeremiah

I'm a senior database administrator with Cass Information Systems, a SQL Server MVP, director-at-large with PASS, and I also help out with my local chapter and the Application Development virtual chapter.

You can learn more about me or contact me directly.

Missing cookies in jQuery AJAX callbacks?

For my current project, we’re making use of a large number of jQuery AJAX callbacks, as well as cookies, to deliver some rich functionality to the users of a web site. Unfortunately this created a little bit of an issue when trying get this to work in IE7.
Here’s what I originally attempted:

function do_something() {

  $.ajax({

    url: [...]

IE7, dropdowns, and z-index

I spent most of yesterday and most of this morning battling with a IE7 display bug.
Back story: we are using jQuery’s superfish drop down menus (a jQuery based implement of suckerfish/son of suckerfish) for site navigation. Everything works great in Firefox 2/3 and Safari. I’m going to assume that IE6 looks great as [...]

Who needs valid XML?

Team Foundation Server, apparently.
Let’s say that some careless developer (me) forgot to close an XML tag. The aforementioned developer then checked in his build file and attempted to build it.
At this point, I got a bit worried because TFS came back with the following error:
TF42046: The build service used in [...]

SQL Server 2008 Installation Features

Eric Johnson has put up a fantastic post detailing the new SQL Server 2008 Installation Wizard or, as it is officially named, SQL Server Installation Center.
Rather than summarize, I’ve just provided a link. It’s short, sweet, to the point, and full of screen [...]

Software Development Meme

Rick, I’m stealing your post. Which is okay because you stole it first.
How old were you when you started programming?
I originally started learning BASIC when I was very young, probably 11 or so. I gave up on programming for more worldly pursuits, only to come back to it 10 years later.
How did [...]