James Moore The Benefits of Regular Deployment When developing software, it makes sense to 'fail early, fail often'; to become aware of mistakes quickly and to learn... 13 December 2012 14 min read
James Moore A trip back to the sharp end On 1st August, James Moore, head of the team at Red Gate who brought to the world the likes of... 04 August 2011 3 min read
James Moore Adopting Scrum We kicked off a new project a few months ago: rewriting ANTS Memory Profiler. As part of the project, we decided... 28 January 2009 2 min read
James Moore Cloud Computing == Bubble 2.0? So Microsoft has jumped on the Cloud bandwagon. I doubt there was a single person in the room who was... 19 November 2008 2 min read
James Moore A little bit of Genius Over the years I have installed Linux distro’s many many times – the first was sometime around Red Hat 4... 09 November 2007 2 min read
James Moore Make sure your .NET applications perform Improving the performance of your application often boils down to rephrasing the problem you are trying to solve. James discusses... 30 October 2007 12 min read
James Moore Integrating with WMI James shows how to add a simple WMI provider to a service so that you can monitor it, and make... 17 October 2007 8 min read
James Moore Welcome to my world…SQL Backup 5 A year and a little bit ago, I sat down with Tom (head of development at Red Gate) to talk... 01 May 2007 4 min read
James Moore Grayscaling transparent gifs and pngs I find that I end up custom painting a lot of the controls in Red Gate products, this is normally... 29 March 2007 2 min read
James Moore The Managed Stack Explorer Its always nice as a developer when you find a new tool to make your life easier – understanding what... 23 November 2006 2 min read
James Moore The four second cutoff There was an article about some research which Akamai has done on user’s experiences of online stores – mainly with... 10 November 2006 1 min read
James Moore Enumerating local 64 bit and 32 bit instances of SQL Server When checking for local instances of SQL Server its normally best enumerate the value of the registry key HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL... 02 November 2006 3 min read
James Moore Microsoft Research I thought the Microsoft Research site deserved a mention as there are some great little projects on there. A pick of... 24 July 2006 2 min read
James Moore Regular Expressions I have just spent the last hour or so trying to get a .NET’s regular expression to do what I want... 18 July 2006 2 min read
James Moore SQL Data Compare: Comparing Views In case you haven’t come across this before you can actually compare two views in SQL Data Compare. The only... 22 November 2005 1 min read
James Moore An interesting article about ASP.NET and SQL Server Performance While reading through the excellent http://blogs.msdn.com/ I noticed this post by Todd Carter talking abount ASP.NET and SQL Server Performance, in it... 15 November 2005 1 min read
James Moore Breaking changes between Beta 2 and the RTM of .NET 2.0 David C sent me an interesting link about the breaking changes between Beta 2 and the RTM, you can find... 09 November 2005 1 min read