Louis Davidson What Counts for a DBA – Patience One day, you are sitting at your desk, minding your own business. Your DBA colleague walks up and exasperatedly tells... 21 August 2013 4 min read
Tony Davis Taming the SQL Beast The recent articles 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers make when Writing SQL and the follow-up, Ten More Mistakes… highlight some... 15 August 2013 3 min read
Ben Emmett ANTS Memory Profiler 8 Beta Available! This will be a short one: I want to let you know that ANTS Memory Profiler 8 is now available... 07 August 2013 1 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #7 – An Interview with Allan Hirt For today’s entry (and after a brief side trip through my own experiences), I move just slightly out of the... 06 August 2013 24 min read
Phil Factor Taming the spirit of the machine Often, a programmer will wrestle with code stubbornly; expending herculean effort to conquer a problem of relatively minor significance. This... 01 August 2013 2 min read
Simon Galbraith Board-Level Agile – Using Agile with my Leadership Team Next week, I’ll be speaking at Agile 2013. As a CEO, I go to plenty of conferences, but most of... 30 July 2013 4 min read
Damon Armstrong SQL Query for Determining SharePoint ACL Sizes When a SharePoint Access Control List (ACL) size exceeds more than 64kb for a particular URL, the contents under that... 23 July 2013 2 min read
Phil Factor Software Tuned to Humanity I learned a great deal from a cynical old programmer who once told me that the ideal length of time... 18 July 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write Supplemental – I find out how long it takes to answer the questions myself My next entry has ran into a number of issues getting finished, and from the start, I have planned on... 17 July 2013 14 min read
Jonathan Allen Keeping an Eye on Your Storage There are plenty of resources that advise you about looking for signs that your storage hardware is having problems. SQL... 15 July 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson Good DBAs Do Baselines One morning, you wake up and feel funny. You can’t quite put your finger on it, but something isn’t quite... 12 July 2013 4 min read
Jonathan Allen News From EAP Testing There is a phrase that goes something like “Watch the pennies and the pounds/dollars will take care of themselves”, meaning... 08 July 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis Comparing Apples and Pairs A recent study, High Costs and Negative Value of Pair Programming, by Capers Jones, pulls no punches in its assessment... 04 July 2013 3 min read
Michaela Murray 25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET: the Eagle has landed! On Friday we launched our new free eBook, 25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET Applications! Heading for 1000 of you have... 02 July 2013 2 min read
Damon Armstrong Setting the Default Wiki Page in a SharePoint Wiki Library I’ve seen a number of blog posts about setting the default homepage in a wiki library, and most of them... 28 June 2013 1 min read
Phil Factor Learn Many Languages Around twenty-five years ago, I was trying to solve the problem of recruiting suitable developers for a large business. I... 20 June 2013 3 min read
Jonathan Allen Working With Extended Events SQL Server 2012 has made working with Extended Events (XE) pretty simple when it comes to what sessions you have... 18 June 2013 7 min read
Louis Davidson Upcoming Database Design Pre-Cons In July and October, I will be doing my "How To Design a Relational Database" full day conference in two... 13 June 2013 3 min read
Tony Davis What’s the use of code reuse? All great developers write reusable code, don’t they? Well, maybe, but as with all statements regarding what “great” developers do... 06 June 2013 3 min read
Louis Davidson Why We Write #6-An Interview with Kevin Kline Wow, so far in this series, I have interviewed some very good friends, and some truly excellent writers (and usually... 05 June 2013 15 min read
