Alex Davies Remote Debugging with Reflector Pro – It could have been so easy! .. but it isn’t 🙁 Visual Studio’s remote debugger is a really neat bit of kit that lets people with... 05 January 2010 2 min read
Roger Hart On the etiquette of flashing: support sites and Flash interfaces don’t mix The discipline of theodicy is a branch of theology and philosophy. It attempts to reconcile various belief systems with the... 04 January 2010 6 min read
Laila Lotfi The Browser That Ate My Memory Have you noticed occasions when your browser suddenly starts eating memory? Even the latest versions of Firefox, Opera or Internet... 04 January 2010 3 min read
Clive Tong Real-World Functional Programming (book review) I had been reading Tomas Petricek’s blog for some time when he announced that he was going to be writing... 03 January 2010 4 min read
Louis Davidson Seasons Greetings.SQL My family used to send out Christmas cards with a yearly report of "where we are from whenst we came... 23 December 2009 4 min read
Charles Lee Deploying InfoPath templates within MOSS 2007 I am going to start with a quote that I want everyone to remember. It should be in the mind... 14 December 2009 3 min read
Tony Davis Paradoxical T-SQL I’ve always taken comfort in the fact that T-SQL belongs to an enlightened age of computer languages in which the... 11 December 2009 2 min read
Laila Lotfi What should you use to build a large scalable website? If you were required to build a high-performance website with a great deal of traffic, what technology would you use?... 03 December 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson My new (fairly) tiny PC Ever since the early days of laptops, I have looked for the “perfect” device. Something with excellent battery life, very... 25 November 2009 7 min read
Roger Hart What if bad documentation gets there first? I read an interesting blog snippet a while ago about information visualizations and their capacity to set change our view... 23 November 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson PASS Wrapup Yeah, yeah, I know. PASS ended two weeks ago. Well, not for me. The effects of 5 days of standing... 21 November 2009 8 min read
Michael Francis We’re not Reflex-Upgraders. The reality of life in the server room isn’t always as it is imagined at Microsoft. We’re not reflex-upgraders. Many... 19 November 2009 3 min read
Andrew Hunter ANTS Performance Profiler 6 Early Access The Early Access Program for ANTS Performance Profiler 6 has begun. You can get the new version from the EAP... 13 November 2009 2 min read
Roger Hart Throwing a Windows 7 launch party – stealth user assistance? Ironic or unironic, the Windows 7 launch party video has been roundly mocked, for smugness, sentimentality, pageant diversity, and the... 12 November 2009 4 min read
Louis Davidson Quest DMV Breakfast Code – Disk IO For any of you who attended the Quest breakfast at PASS (and anyone else really) I wanted to go ahead... 04 November 2009 6 min read
red@work Something Spooky at Red Gate It’s not unusual to be sitting at your desk at Red Gate and hear a cheer erupt from a post-lunch... 30 October 2009 2 min read
Louis Davidson Prepping for PASS (apparently it is next week) Mercy, PASS is going to be a busy week for me. My basic schedule is: Sunday: Arrive just after 4... 29 October 2009 3 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Sheep Ticks The doggedness with which certain SQL Server “myths” cling to the coat of the SQL Server community is really quite... 28 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Seventh pillar – Encapsulated The final numbered post in this version of my “pillar” series of posts ends in the most contestable part of... 23 October 2009 6 min read
Michael Francis Virtual disks for the flop-buster Vista Service Pack 3, as we like to call Windows 7, is worth getting if you are stuck with Vista. ... 22 October 2009 3 min read