Phil Factor A PowerShell RSS Reader using an OPML file To celebrate the announcement of the planned demise of Google Reader, I’ve done a PowerShell script that gives you the... 18 March 2013 6 min read
James Gilmore Profiling PowerShell cmdlets with ANTS Performance Profiler Following the early lead of Exchange Server 2007, Citrix’s XenDesktop SDK (which I was fortunate enough to work on), and... 13 March 2013 3 min read
Melanie Townsend An eBook by any other name, would be just as useful UPDATED March 26 The Red Gate team is compiling an eBook of SQL performance tips and we want YOUR help.... 13 March 2013 3 min read
Alex Davies Chunks of development work are like database transactions I noticed something recently, that I was using exactly the same logic in two seemingly unrelated aspects of my job.... 07 March 2013 4 min read
Jeremy Jarrell Speeding up your application with the IIS Auto-Start feature Red Gate recently polled the ASP.NET developer community for tips on improving the performance of ASP.NET web applications. The result... 05 March 2013 6 min read
Ben Emmett Join us for a bug hunt – there are prizes! Join us right now on Google Hangouts: https://plus.google.com/events/cq2p82jvkp7i0fsl9v8faq09qig Testers need to have creatively nefarious minds; abusing applications in ways which... 05 March 2013 2 min read
Jonathan Allen SQL Saturday Exeter is next weekend There is still time to register for the Friday and/or Saturday, follow the links below and join us for... 03 March 2013 1 min read
Tony Davis Aversion to Version Control Why shouldn’t we enjoy the benefits of distributed version control systems (DVCS) on Windows? I agree that we’ve made a... 28 February 2013 3 min read
Phil Factor Big Data and the Slough of Despond “This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth... 26 February 2013 3 min read
Chris George To Automate or Not To Automate…Is that the Question? We all know that test automation i.e. the ability to run a bunch of tests automatically, not manually, and then... 22 February 2013 4 min read
Louis Davidson My New Year’s Goals 2013 So, I have completely given up on my new year starting on Jan 1 where blogging/writing/community is concerned. I love... 17 February 2013 7 min read
Michael Williamson Lightning talk: David Simner – Security 101 In one of our recent lightning talk sessions, David Simner explained one of the many reasons why security is hard:... 15 February 2013 1 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA: Realism “I need a database designed, which will not only clear up our current order processing issues, but will make our... 14 February 2013 4 min read
Phil Factor Microsoft Marketing Man wakes up On waking up this morning, I re-imagined the idea of having a bath, which turned out to be a deeply... 12 February 2013 4 min read
Ben Emmett Doh! This is why we run beta programs I’m a big believer in sharing beta software with users as early as possible. For our users it means getting... 06 February 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Making PASS tick… On the final day of a hectic PASS Summit 2012, in Seattle, I caught up with Bill Graziano (@billgraziano), Douglas... 05 February 2013 1 min read
Ben Emmett Web Request Profiling in ANTS Performance Profiler We’ve just shipped another beta build of ANTS Performance Profiler 8, and it’s a big one. It adds new feature... 01 February 2013 2 min read
Andrew Clarke On taking a more nuanced approach to Cloud services. Although it makes a lot of sense for an IT department to use the Cloud where possible instead of using... 28 January 2013 2 min read
Michaela Murray Free eBook: 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues Back in November, I started asking for your top tips on ASP.NET and SQL Server performance. In case you haven’t... 25 January 2013 3 min read
Ben Emmett Announcing the Beta of ANTS Performance Profiler 8 We spend a lot of time talking to .NET developers, and over the last couple of months it’s been really... 24 January 2013 1 min read
