Laila Lotfi

Nurturing .NET Reflector

The very best software is almost always originally the creation of a single person. Readers of our ‘Geek of the...

28 January 2010 2 min read

Nick Harrison

Back to Basics: Structuring a Web Page with CSS and ASP.NET

Nick explains why such habits as using nested HTML Tables to position content in the right place on the browser...

28 January 2010 15 min read

Michael Sorens

Using LINQ Lambda Expressions to Design Customizable Generic Components

LINQ makes code easier to write and maintain by abstracting the data source. It provides a uniform way to handle...

27 January 2010 25 min read

Louis Davidson

Three Big Things That Got Me Here

I was tagged by Glenn Berry in the meme that Paul Randal started a few days ago, so I need...

25 January 2010 7 min read

red@work

The Front line of Communication

There may be a few blog posts around on customer contact from a sales and marketing point of view, but...

22 January 2010 4 min read

Laerte Junior

Exceptional PowerShell DBA Pt 2 – The Morning Checklist

Laerte Junior takes us further into the world of an Exceptional PowerShell DBA, showing us how he uses PowerShell 2.0...

21 January 2010 15 min read

Rodney Landrum

Managing Data Growth in SQL Server

'Help, my database ate my disk drives!'. Many DBAs spend most of their time dealing with variations of the problem...

21 January 2010 37 min read

Phil Factor

Laying out SQL Code

It is important to ensure that SQL code is laid out the best way for the team that has to...

21 January 2010 17 min read

Brad McGehee

Brad’s Sure DBA Checklist

Sometimes, all a DBA needs, to help with day-to-day work, is a checklist of best-practices and dos and don'ts. It...

20 January 2010 33 min read

Richard Morris

Don Syme: Geek of the Week

It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form...

19 January 2010 10 min read

Joe Celko

Celko’s SQL Stumper: The Class Scheduling Problem

What can we use in SQL instead of E. F. Codd's T theta operators for best-fit? Joe Celko returns with...

19 January 2010 8 min read

Andrew Siemer

Can you help me formulate a TOC for an ASP.NET MVC Cookbook

Hey there everyone. I was recently tasked to pitch a book to my publisher. As a first step I need...

15 January 2010 5 min read

Michael Francis

Six years older in a day

After the much-hyped millennium bug failed to do much damage, nobody was really expecting a ‘Decennium’ ‘Y2K16’ or ‘Decade-change’ bug....

14 January 2010 2 min read

Richard Morris

Robin Milner: Geek of the Week

Although Robin Milner is best known for creating ML, which has evolved into Microsoft's new F# language, he would, had...

14 January 2010 11 min read

Dr. Masha Petrova

Social Networking at Professional Events

Dr. Masha Petrova compresses, into a small space, much good advice on networking with other professional people. She draws from...

14 January 2010 9 min read

Ben Lye

Regional Office Virtualization – Less Can Be More

The dream of an 'office in a box' has been around for years, but the increasing sophistication of virtualization software...

14 January 2010 7 min read

Johan Veldhuis

A Deep Dive into Transport Queues – Part 1

Submission queues? Poison message queues? Johan Veldhuis unlocks the mysteries of MS Exchange's Transport queues that used to temporarily store...

12 January 2010 13 min read

Phil Factor

The Seven Phases towards Craziness in IT Development Groups

Project managers in IT departments have well-established ways of describing the different phases of a development project, depending on the...

11 January 2010 6 min read

Louis Davidson

The reviews are in…and I still have things to improve…

Darn it, when I get my reviews back from a conference, I want them to say “Perfect”, “Wonderful”,”The best conference...

08 January 2010 4 min read

Tony Davis

Reckless Drivers

When I first joined the industry in the late 90’s, Microsoft was in the process of shunting the ODBC driver...

07 January 2010 3 min read

Register for Simple Talk

Articles