Damon Armstrong SPUtility.SendMail and the 2048 Character Limit We were in the middle of testing a web part responsible for gathering information from visitors to our Client’s website... 14 December 2010 2 min read
Tony Davis Emoti-phrases Surely the next radical step in the development of User-interface design is for applications to react appropriately to the rising... 09 December 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson Design Book– Third Section (Implementing the Database) The third section is the primary section that a person who has some decent knowledge and experience doing design will... 07 December 2010 5 min read
Louis Davidson Design Book–Dimensional or No Dimensional, that is..the question So, it is right there in the title of the book “Relational Database Design” etc (the title is kinda long... 30 November 2010 2 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Pseudo custom attributes Custom attributes were designed to make the .NET framework extensible; if a .NET language needs to store additional metadata on... 30 November 2010 4 min read
Louis Davidson Design Book – Second Section (Logical/Conceptual Modeling/Case Studies) In the first section of the book, we established the skills that are required to do data modeling/design (well, at... 28 November 2010 3 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Custom modifiers In IL, volatile is an instruction prefix used to set a memory barrier at that instruction. However, in C#, volatile... 26 November 2010 3 min read
Brian Donahue Updating the managed debugging API for .NET v4 In any successful investigation, the right tools play a big part in collecting evidence about the state of the “crime scene”... 24 November 2010 5 min read
Louis Davidson Un-SQL–Thanksgiving So here it is the night of Thanksgiving Eve here in the United states, and some time tomorrow I will... 24 November 2010 4 min read
Richard Mitchell SQL Monitor and "The Cloud" So, how can we demo this thing? In the beginning there was a product, and it was a good product... 23 November 2010 3 min read
Louis Davidson Design Book– First Section (Skills) One of the main things that I haven’t always loved about the previous books is that it wasn’t a perfect... 22 November 2010 5 min read
The .NET Team Alan Turing Needs Your Help Well. sort of. Clearly, you are using a computer. If you are on this site, you are probably quite familiar... 22 November 2010 2 min read
Phil Factor Listing common SQL Code Smells. Once you’ve done a number of SQL Code-reviews, you’ll know those signs in the code that all might not be... 22 November 2010 7 min read
Louis Davidson One Domain Table or Many? Early in 2007, I wrote an article for Simple-Talk called Ten Common Database Design Mistakes, and it has been... 20 November 2010 6 min read
The .NET Team A Bit Cloudy “Systems Administrators, I come in peace. You have nothing to fear from me” – Office 365 Microsoft Business Productivity Online... 18 November 2010 3 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Constructor constraints The constructor generic constraint is a slightly wierd one. The ECMA specification simply states that it: constrains [the type] to... 17 November 2010 4 min read
Louis Davidson Design Book–Top level outline The more I teach sessions about database design, the more I realize that two things are true. First, most people... 16 November 2010 2 min read
Richard Mitchell A weekend with the Samsung Galaxy Tab This weekend I took one of the Samsung Galaxy Tabs we have lying around the office here home to see... 15 November 2010 5 min read
Phil Factor Musings on the launch of SQL Monitor For several years, I was responsible for the smooth running of a large number of enterprise database servers. We ran... 15 November 2010 4 min read
Louis Davidson Why I love to (and am starting again) to write about design “It’s book writing time in Tennessee!” Ok, so I am actually in the Seattle airport waiting for my flight in... 13 November 2010 4 min read
