red@work All Your Kitchen Are Belong To Us Apropos of nothing, we’ve just moved into a new office to house our ever-burgeoning workforce, and naturally there are a... 09 October 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor To the next generation Whenever I try out software, I always, out of habit, send the vendors a report that says exactly what I... 07 October 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor On Being Paid in Trousers It was so long ago that I got fed up with the glacial slowness of commercial software development, and wrote... 02 October 2008 2 min read
Phil Factor Never say ‘never’ to the WHILE loop. /* download the test text file Moby-Dyck.zip here */ /* You might notice that I refer to Moby **** in this blog. This... 02 October 2008 5 min read
red@work Simply different: ingenious! Having seen Chris’ post yesterday, I thought I’d bring another perspective to the table. I joined Red Gate a few... 30 September 2008 5 min read
Brad McGehee Keep Up-to-Date on SQL Server with These RSS Feeds The Internet includes a huge amount of SQL Server content, but much of it is hard to find. One of... 29 September 2008 2 min read
red@work New Kid on the Block I only recently joined Red Gate, and when I found out I was being offered the job I was already... 29 September 2008 4 min read
Brian Donahue ASP .NET: when a crash is not a crash In the mysterious viscera of Microsoft Internet Information Server, nothing is as it seems. When applications are designed to work... 24 September 2008 4 min read
Phil Factor The DOS Batch File from Hell: a confession. A while back, I was chatting to an IT Support person we’d recently taken on. I discovered that he’d come... 22 September 2008 5 min read
Tony Davis Application Usability and Standards Office 2007’s ‘ribbon UI’, now optimistically renamed ‘Office Fluent User Interface’, was an act of strange corporate madness by Microsoft.... 16 September 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor A decent chair for the IT worker. The computer chair is one of the abominations of the age. It is a design that embodies the savage dehumanising... 12 September 2008 4 min read
Tony Davis Application Usability and the JFDI Button It is strange how we, as software developers, get caught up in using conventions in applications that seem to be... 02 September 2008 4 min read
Brad McGehee Get a Free Copy of My New E-Book: Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008: The Top Ten New Features for DBAs I have just finished writing a new E-Book, and it is available free from Red Gate Software at the following... 31 August 2008 4 min read
Bart Read 9 Top tips for ISVs to get me to (maybe) buy your software I’ve been looking around, off and on, for a decent piece of test management software to replace the current piece... 27 August 2008 7 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server 2008: Refinement but no Fireworks The SQL Server platform expanded substantially with the arrival of SQL Server 2005, introducing many features that people now rely... 18 August 2008 3 min read
Brian Donahue Man eats crow, film at eleven Last week I’d had a bit of a rant here about not using software for anything other than what it is... 12 August 2008 3 min read
Tony Davis Anxiety, Dissent and the Entity Framework There is trouble afoot amongst the MVPs who are specialising in Object-Relational mapping (ORM). When the NHibernate mafia, a.k.a. ALT.NET,... 06 August 2008 3 min read
Brian Donahue DOH! It’s the DaftOperationHandler Probably my least favourite question in the world, professionally anyway, is “Does your software support <choose a technology>”. Well,... 05 August 2008 3 min read
András Belokosztolszki The unexpected behaviour of DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() with three letter extensions There is a documented, but certainly counterintuitive issue with the DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() method in .Net. This method returns a list of... 01 August 2008 3 min read
Louis Davidson Apologies for comments going unpublished I had quite a few comments out there that were unpublished. One person was particularly slighted and I am sending... 30 July 2008 1 min read
