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SQL Script Creator released

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New Version of SQL Script Creator Logo
I continued the development of my SQL Script Creator and have just put up a setup package on it’s project page. It is a handy tool to create a sql script from query meta data based on several templates and can save you quite some time when working with temporary tables or cursors in SQL Server.

Meanwhile I found a similar opensource program which is called iCodeGenerator which uses user editable templates to create custom scripts and code but it bases it’s generation on a table rather than a more customizable select query.

In case you are wondering: The splashscreen design is drawn by hand with a graphic tablet – it gave me the chance to try some brush effects. It is no coincidence that the content resembles the SQL Server 2005 splash screen in a more “handmade” style ;-)

Creating reflection effects with Photoshop actions

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A very popuplar and really cool looking effect is the illusion of reflective surfaces. You can see this reflection effect on many popular websites, in apple’s itunes or right here in this picture of a Ferrari 355. Although there is a way to create such an image reflection just with javascript and the canvas tag this effect will usually be done by image editing as long as Internet Explorer doesn’t support the magical canvas tag. Therefore I will show you in the following tutorial a way to automate the creation of the reflection using actions in Adobe Photoshop.
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