Dino Esposito

The Three Models of ASP.NET MVC Apps

We've inherited from the original MVC pattern a rather simplistic idea of what should be in the Model. In fact,...

12 June 2012 12 min read

Annette Allen

SSIS Basics: Adding Data Flow to Your Package

Annette continues her popular series for SSIS beginners by showing how a data flow task can be used in a...

12 June 2012 16 min read

Alex Kuznetsov

Developing Low-Maintenance Databases

Alex's team of developers are geared to doing rapid development of database applications in a busy corporate setting, yet take...

12 June 2012 21 min read

Cary Millsap

An Organizational Constraint that Diminishes Software Quality

One of the biggest problems in software performance today occurs when the people who write software are different from the...

11 June 2012 1 min read

Chris George

Antenna Aligner Part 7: Connecting the dots

The app is basically ready, so I eagerly started to sort out creating the application entry in iTunes Connect. It’s...

08 June 2012 3 min read

Chris George

Antenna Aligner Part 6: Little Robots

A week ago I took temporary ownership of a HTC Desire S so that I could start testing my app...

07 June 2012 2 min read

Buck Woody

The Lure of Simplicity in IT

A deceptively simple solution to a business-re-engineering problem can beguile companies into selecting a compromise that doesn't actually meet all...

07 June 2012 12 min read

Peter Larsson

The Road to Professional Database Development: Database Normalization

Not only is the process of normalisation valuable for increasing data quality and simplifying the process of modifying data, but...

07 June 2012 27 min read

Chris George

Antenna Aligner Part 5: Devil is in the detail

“The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the another 200%” (excerpt...

01 June 2012 2 min read

Simon Cooper

PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a relatively new programming paradigm. Originating at Xerox PARC in 1994, the paradigm was first made...

31 May 2012 6 min read

David Njoku

Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 2: Database Administrators)

In the first in this series of articles on the tools in the Oracle Flashback Technology armoury, I discussed what...

31 May 2012 6 min read

Richard Mitchell

3 tips for SQL Azure connection perfection

One of my main annoyances when dealing with SQL Azure is of course the occasional connection problems that communicating to...

31 May 2012 4 min read

Michael Sorens

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 7: Managing Revisions

Here are recipes to manage Subversion source control revisions effectively, such as managing revisions, working out the current revision, whether...

30 May 2012 19 min read

Jonathan Lewis

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

For those not familiar with Richard Foote’s extensive blog about indexes (and if you’re not you should be) – the title of...

29 May 2012 2 min read

Jason Nappi

A private cloud that isn't really a cloud at all

Virtualization certainly has advantages, but using a private cloud means a lot of configuration, troubleshooting, and management; and you still...

29 May 2012 5 min read

Chris George

Antenna Aligner Part 4: Role’ing in the deep

Since last time I’ve been trying to sort out the general workflow of the app. It’s fundamentally not hard, there...

28 May 2012 3 min read

Edward Charbeneau

A Foundation for the Web

Because we can now run browsers on devices of a wide range of screen-sizes, content publishers have had to find...

28 May 2012 8 min read

Joe Celko

SQL View: Beyond the Basics

Following up from his popular article, SQL View Basics, Joe delves into the main uses of views, explains how the...

28 May 2012 13 min read

Laila Lotfi

Modernizr Rocks HTML5

HTML5 is a moving target. At the moment, we don’t know what will be in future versions. In most circumstances,...

25 May 2012 3 min read

Red and the Community

Taking our Friendships to the next level.

Red Gate have been running the Friends of Red Gate program for years now, and over that time we’ve built...

22 May 2012 2 min read

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Articles

The Three Models of ASP.NET MVC Apps

SSIS Basics: Adding Data Flow to Your Package

Developing Low-Maintenance Databases

An Organizational Constraint that Diminishes Software Quality

Antenna Aligner Part 7: Connecting the dots

Antenna Aligner Part 6: Little Robots

The Lure of Simplicity in IT

The Road to Professional Database Development: Database Normalization

Antenna Aligner Part 5: Devil is in the detail

PostSharp, Obfuscation, and IL

Introduction to Oracle Flashback Technology (Part 2: Database Administrators)

3 tips for SQL Azure connection perfection

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 7: Managing Revisions

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

A private cloud that isn't really a cloud at all

Antenna Aligner Part 4: Role’ing in the deep

A Foundation for the Web

SQL View: Beyond the Basics

Modernizr Rocks HTML5

Taking our Friendships to the next level.