// do something here

As a follow up to Stir Trek, thanks to my friend and former co-worker John B., who reminded me that if you have a lot of inserts you want to do, execute this command on your database before you get started:

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

Then, after all your inserts have been sent , execute this:

END TRANSACTION;

If you do this, I promise that your users will be much more happier. (In my iOS app instance, the insert times went from about 90 seconds to 0.7 seconds.)

BTW, happy birthday to Amy Heckerling, who directed two of my all time most favorite movies, National Lampoon’s European Vacation and Johnny Dangerously.

It was a fun time today attending the Stir Trek Avengers Edition developer event in Columbus, Ohio. I especially enjoyed the Scott Hanselman sessions on becoming more productive and on ASP.NET. And the movie was real loud.

Also, I would like to thank all the people who downloaded my Stir Trek 2012 app (link redacted, app has been removed from the App Store) for the iPhone. Yesterday’s download count was almost larger than the entire download count for the Stir Trek app I did in 2011.

BTW, to continue the movie theme, Happy Star Wars day to everyone.