Michaela Murray Application Performance: The Best of the Web Wisdom A deep understanding and realization […] resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgements and actions. It is also... 15 November 2012 4 min read
Chris George Antenna Aligner Part 10: Updates and emails… Since my last post back in July, I’ve not done huge amounts of work on my app for two reasons.... 13 November 2012 2 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA: Fitness If you know me, you can probably guess that physical exercise is not really my thing. There was a time... 09 November 2012 5 min read
Chris George “It’s only test code…” “Let me hack this in, it’s only test code”, “Don’t worry about getting it reviewed, it’s only test code”, “It... 09 November 2012 5 min read
Phil Factor When things go awry The moment the Entrepreneur opened his mouth on prime-time national TV, spelled out the URL and waxed big on how... 09 November 2012 3 min read
Michael Williamson Red Gate Coder interviews: Robin Hellen Robin Hellen is a test engineer here at Red Gate, and is also the latest coder I’ve interviewed. We chatted... 08 November 2012 18 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Precon Countdown… See some of you Monday, and others on Tuesday Night As I finish up the plans for Monday’s database design precon, I am getting pretty excited for the day. This... 02 November 2012 3 min read
Tony Davis So it comes to PASS… How does your company gauge the benefit of attending a technical conference? What’s the best change you made as a... 02 November 2012 2 min read
Grant Fritchey Hosted Monitoring The concept of using services to take the place of writing a lot of your own code goes way, way... 25 October 2012 3 min read
Michael Williamson Lightning talk: Michael Williamson – Simple isn’t easy, or how to design the electrical mains in your house If you’ve ever wanted to see me take an excellent article on why electrical plugs should have three prongs and... 24 October 2012 1 min read
Red and the Community That's a wrap! Almost, there's still one last chance to attend a SQL in the City event in 2012 The communities team are back from the SQL in the City multi-city US Tour and we are delighted to have... 23 October 2012 2 min read
Roger Hart Another Marketing Conference, part two – the afternoon In my previous post, I’ve covered the morning sessions at AMC2012. Here’s the rest of the write-up. I’ve skipped Charles... 22 October 2012 7 min read
Damon Armstrong SharePoint, HTTP Modules, and Page Validation Sometimes I really believe that SharePoint actively thwarts my attempts to get it to do what I want. First you... 20 October 2012 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For A DBA – ESP Now I don’t want to get religious here, and I’m not going to, but what I’m going to describe in... 18 October 2012 4 min read
red@work Red Gate does Byte Night 2012 On the 5th of October 2012, a team of nine plucky Red Gaters braved the howling wind and the driving... 18 October 2012 4 min read
Michael Williamson Lightning talk: Tom Lewin – Team Fortress 2 for fun and profit Last week, Tom Lewin taught us all about arbitrage by giving the lightning talk “Team Fortress 2 for fun and... 15 October 2012 1 min read
Tony Davis Data Model Dissonance So often at the start of the development of database applications, there is a premature rush to the keyboard. Unless,... 12 October 2012 3 min read
Louis Davidson What Counts For a DBA: Simplicity Too many computer processes do an apparently simple task in a bizarrely complex way. They remind me of a strip... 01 October 2012 5 min read
Michael Williamson Modularity through HTTP As programmers, we strive for modularity in the code we write. We hope that splitting the problem up makes it... 27 September 2012 4 min read
Alex Davies My book is released – Async in C# 5 I’m pleased to announce that my book “Async in C# 5” has been published by O’Reilly! http://oreil.ly/QQBjO3 If you want... 20 September 2012 1 min read
