Simon Cooper .NET Security Part 2 So, how do you create partial-trust appdomains? Where do you come across them? There are two main situations in which... 07 May 2013 5 min read
Louis Davidson Speaking about Relational DB Design the next two weeks (Knoxville, then Atlanta) On Friday, May 10 I will be speaking for the Knoxville SQL Server User Group, and on May 18, I... 05 May 2013 2 min read
Nirmal Sharma Active Directory Naming Information Could Not Be Located Because… Sometimes when you open an Active Directory tool, you might get hit with the “Active Directory Naming Information Could Not... 29 April 2013 7 min read
Phil Factor Who’s afraid of the big bad data type Guest Editorial Data types seem so innocuous, but mistakes in their use can creep up on you like a flesh-eating... 26 April 2013 4 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #4 – An Interview With Doug Lane My next guest is Doug Lane, who has been blogging for the past few years on his website: http://www.douglane.net/. Doug... 23 April 2013 11 min read
Melanie Townsend But…I'm between the chair and the keyboard In my more paranoid moments, I think Outlook is waging a sophisticated and subtle campaign to convince me I’m going... 23 April 2013 3 min read
Simon Cooper Inside Portable Class Libraries Portable Class Libraries were introduced with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to aid writing libraries that could be used on many... 19 April 2013 6 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA: Bravery As a DBA, you have the opportunity to act like a firefighter. In fact the term ‘fire-fighting’ is very often... 19 April 2013 4 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: ThreadLocal revisited Last year, I looked at the ThreadLocal type as it exists in .NET 4. In .NET 4.5, this type has... 18 April 2013 5 min read
Michael Williamson Previewing image uploads with FileReader in HTML5 If a user is filling out an HTML form, and that form happens to include an image upload, it would... 18 April 2013 2 min read
Ben Emmett ANTS Performance Profiler 8 released ANTS Performance Profiler 8 has just shipped! We’ve been working on it for eight months, and there’s a huge amount... 17 April 2013 4 min read
Richard Mitchell Want to get your name in a free Azure tips eBook? As I’ve been working with Windows Azure for a few years now there’s a few things I wish I knew... 17 April 2013 2 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #3 – An Interview With Rob Farley In the third entry in this series, we take a turn south, not in quality, but in the geography of... 08 April 2013 11 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #2 – An Interview With Mark Vaillancourt My second guest is Mark Vaillancourt (whose last name makes me very happy for the copy and paste feature), who... 28 March 2013 11 min read
Phil Factor SQL Server JSON to Table and Table to JSON One of the surprises that I got from writing for Simple-Talk was the popularity of my article Consuming JSON Strings... 26 March 2013 7 min read
Andrew Clarke Towards Security as a Service? There’s some fuss around the additional security risks of moving an existing service within a corporate data center, to a... 26 March 2013 2 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA: Laziness On the face of it, laziness is not the first character trait to whip out before an interviewer when asked,... 26 March 2013 4 min read
Jonathan Allen Speaking, Listening and Speaking again It seems a very brief two weeks ago that I was in the middle of the team running SQL Saturday... 25 March 2013 3 min read
Michaela Murray 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues: The Next Generation The super-short version 11,000 of you have already grabbed a copy of the first edition of 50 Ways to Avoid,... 22 March 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #1 – An Interview With Thomas LaRock I ‘ve been a writer of trade level technical materials for over 13 years now, writing books, articles, blogs, and... 21 March 2013 7 min read
