red@work Marketing Day Out Imagine waking up with the knowledge that the day ahead will be one to remember, but not being entirely sure... 22 October 2009 6 min read
Phil Factor Moving Down in the World of Work You know how it is, you’re racing to finish a nice software product that you feel sure is going to... 19 October 2009 6 min read
Tony Davis The SSRS 2008 Minefield One of the big advances in Microsoft’s “2008 platform”, with regard to Reporting Services, was that there would be a... 16 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Sixth pillar – Well Performing I guess eventually I had to admit that performance matters. Whenever I speak, and in all of my books, I... 13 October 2009 7 min read
Laila Lotfi Speeding up AJAX Applications Microsoft’s recent release of Doloto reminded me of the pain of the AJAX Programmer. Doloto is a tool for optimizing... 08 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Fifth pillar – Secure As I have mentioned in all of the previous posts, basic functionality is the foundation of any system. So it... 06 October 2009 5 min read
Louis Davidson MVP Award Renewal On October 1, I received my email stating that I was again renewed as an MVP. One of the greatest... 04 October 2009 3 min read
Bart Read .NET Reflector Support: Can I edit assemblies I’ve opened in .NET Reflector? Yes, you can. There are two possible approaches, both of which utilise add-ins to .NET Reflector. The first, assuming that... 02 October 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis Index Fragmentation Anxiety: a Doctor Speaks Do you suffer from Index Anxiety? Do you lie awake, worrying about whether you are neglecting to defrag your indexes?... 01 October 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson SQL Server Deep Dives A project that I worked on a while back is finally coming to fruition, and it is one of the... 29 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong TechFest Houston Slides and Source Code TechFest Houston was a blast, and if you came out to my presentation on Simpliyfing Web Part Development or dropped... 28 September 2009 1 min read
Robert Chipperfield Cloning objects the quick and dirty way Working in .NET, a lot of the objects I use implement ISerializable – very handy when it comes to throwing... 25 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Access Denied for "User Profile and My Sites" Links in an SSP SharePoint is great about hiding permissions. I was working on a Shared Service Provider (SSP) and was greeted with an... 17 September 2009 1 min read
Tony Davis SQL Server Rootkits: Security Scare or Nightmare? How many DBAs, I wonder, really know how to go about detecting potential rootkits in their SQL Servers? To install... 17 September 2009 3 min read
Damon Armstrong VSeWSS 1.3 – Getting around the "Unable to load one or more of the requested types" Error I hate packaging SharePoint solutions by hand. Once you’ve got it working, it’s not a big deal, but it takes... 14 September 2009 3 min read
Laila Lotfi Losing Your Memory Most so-called memory leaks in .NET applications aren’t really leaks. After all, if an object has a valid reference to... 11 September 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson “(24 – 23 Hours) of PASS” or “Paul and Louis Try Again” If you were at our 24 Hours of PASS session which we called the 10 Big Ideas in Database Design... 10 September 2009 2 min read
Ben Adderson [BrowserTheory] – Adding a [URL] attribute to the [Browser] attribute for xUnit.net EDIT: After a request in the comments, the full solution can be obtained from here. After my last post it... 10 September 2009 7 min read
Damon Armstrong Disable XML Comment Warnings for a File I’m a big fan of enabling XML comments when you’re working on a project (either alone or as a team)... 04 September 2009 2 min read
The Future of Monitoring We’d like to talk to you about SQL Response version 2 Actually, we’d rather listen. We’re keen to hear your views (and see your ideas!) about what you’d like from SQL... 04 September 2009 3 min read
