Splash Screen Psychology

We don’t generally design splash screens for Early Access Builds. But, with our Memory Profiler coming out as an Early...

24 April 2009 2 min read

Chris Massey

Free eBook: SQL Server Crib-Sheet Compendium

For everything you need to know, rather than want to know, about SQL Server Reporting Services, replication, backup, XML, performance,...

24 April 2009 1 min read

Louis Davidson

Headed..South..To Atlanta for SQL Saturday

Heading down to SQL Saturday (www.sqlsaturday.com) in Atlanta to give a 9:15 AM session on Database Design, with a greater...

23 April 2009 1 min read

Ben Hall

Embedding IronRuby and the DLR into SQL Data Generator

You can embed DLR-based languages such as IronPython and IronRuby into applications. This gives you instant scripting, and with it,...

23 April 2009 14 min read

Andrew Hunter

When to Run and When to Block

When you are developing a multi-threaded application, you will need to understand how the operating system decides which threads are...

21 April 2009 14 min read

Louis Davidson

Book Reviews – Again

I have gotten a few more reviews in, and interestingly I appreciate the negative ones almost as much as the...

20 April 2009 3 min read

Shereen Qumsieh

Working With the ANTS Profiler to Optimize SharePoint

When a page in SharePoint takes 30 seconds to load, it is time for any developer to be concerned. There...

20 April 2009 9 min read

Louis Davidson

Allen White to speak at our Nashville SQL Server User’s group April 24

I am scheduled to be the opening act, with a short 5-10 minute tip/trick session entitled “Tips – Taking Care...

17 April 2009 2 min read

Louis Davidson

The fourth pillar – Documented

This blog probably won’t stir up a hornet’s nest or anything, but I would also expect that it would be...

15 April 2009 5 min read

Alex Davies

The "Singleton" Design Flaw

In my earlier post I mentioned that there are a couple of design patterns that I think are wholly wrong....

15 April 2009 4 min read

Doctor Dionysus

False Economies

A couple of years ago, the small dot com company I work for embarked on a cost-cutting drive. In light...

15 April 2009 5 min read

Phil Factor

CLR Assembly RegEx Functions for SQL Server by Example

Phil Factor presents a simple CLR Assembly to allow SQL Server users to access all the powerful RegEx library methods...

15 April 2009 15 min read

Jaap Wesselius

Exchange Server 2010 – The First Public Beta Version

Jaap takes a first look at the new Beta 1 of Exchange Server 2010, which is now available for download,...

15 April 2009 10 min read

Tony Davis

What is "maintainable code"?

“Maintainable code” does not mean the same thing to a DBA as it does to a developer. Production Support staff...

14 April 2009 3 min read

Rachel Potts

Designing help from the inside out

Red Gate is all about ingeniously simple tools. What does all this mean to those of us involved in making...

14 April 2009 6 min read

Richard Morris

Sarah Lacey on The Rise of Web 2.0

Sarah Lacy's commentary on the IT Industry for BusinessWeek is widely read and causes polarised opinions. She is a skilled...

14 April 2009 14 min read

Louis Davidson

Requirements vs Architecture

Okay, so on the first look this sounds like the most boring Japanese action movie ever. Requirements is tearing through...

12 April 2009 6 min read

Roger Hart

Words like things

<p>Did anybody go to the Information Design Conference last week? If not, you missed a fascinating presentation by <a href=”http://www.infodesign.org.uk/2009-conference/speakers/wong.php”>Michèle...

09 April 2009 5 min read

Louis Davidson

The third pillar – Fundamentally sound

This one should be simple to anyone who sees it (once I decode what I mean by fundamentally… and sound…by...

07 April 2009 5 min read

Michael Francis

@Kilroy_was_here

Right, own up! Who’s been writing graffiti on the bathroom wall? Was it you Fry? Peter Gabriel wrote a song...

07 April 2009 3 min read

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Splash Screen Psychology

Free eBook: SQL Server Crib-Sheet Compendium

Headed..South..To Atlanta for SQL Saturday

Embedding IronRuby and the DLR into SQL Data Generator

When to Run and When to Block

Book Reviews – Again

Working With the ANTS Profiler to Optimize SharePoint

Allen White to speak at our Nashville SQL Server User’s group April 24

The fourth pillar – Documented

The "Singleton" Design Flaw

False Economies

CLR Assembly RegEx Functions for SQL Server by Example

Exchange Server 2010 – The First Public Beta Version

What is "maintainable code"?

Designing help from the inside out

Sarah Lacey on The Rise of Web 2.0

Requirements vs Architecture

Words like things

The third pillar – Fundamentally sound

@Kilroy_was_here