Louis Davidson Checkpoint – Four pillars down, Three to Go With the previous post on the fourth pillar, I have reached the “end” of the design posts. To review, these... 14 May 2009 5 min read
Tony Davis One Shell to Rule Them All (and in the darkness bind them) It has been obvious for a while that PowerShell 2 was going to be strongly supported as the natural scripting... 14 May 2009 3 min read
Alex Davies Why I don’t care where my objects are created Back when we were designing the new memory profiler last year, Andrew had realised that there was one thing that... 07 May 2009 3 min read
Phil Factor Never Alienate your DBAs A tip for managers: never alienate your DBAs. If you do, it is liable to lead to painful consequences. I... 01 May 2009 9 min read
Louis Davidson Do you care where an idea comes from? Ok, so you are the lead ______________ for your company. The big cheese, the super duper guy who knows everything…right? ... 29 April 2009 3 min read
Tony Davis Why Most Developers are Rubbish at Estimating Recently, a local builder handed me an estimate for some construction work on my home. Once my eyes had stopped... 28 April 2009 3 min read
Doctor Dionysus The Defaced Masterpiece ‘I asked for a ****ing big button! Where the **** is my big button?!?’ thundered my CEO, his face shifting... 27 April 2009 5 min read
Bart Read Last orders at the bar… well, until the next time anyway Earlier on today Steve uploaded our last early access build for ANTS Memory Profiler 5: http://www.red-gate.com/messageboard/viewforum.php?f=92 We won’t be making... 24 April 2009 1 min read
Laila Lotfi DLR Delight Just occasionally, Microsoft produces something so radical and neat that you can’t help but gasp in amazement at the implications.... 24 April 2009 3 min read
red@work Splash Screen Psychology We don’t generally design splash screens for Early Access Builds. But, with our Memory Profiler coming out as an Early... 24 April 2009 2 min read
Louis Davidson Headed..South..To Atlanta for SQL Saturday Heading down to SQL Saturday (www.sqlsaturday.com) in Atlanta to give a 9:15 AM session on Database Design, with a greater... 23 April 2009 1 min read
Louis Davidson Book Reviews – Again I have gotten a few more reviews in, and interestingly I appreciate the negative ones almost as much as the... 20 April 2009 3 min read
Louis Davidson Allen White to speak at our Nashville SQL Server User’s group April 24 I am scheduled to be the opening act, with a short 5-10 minute tip/trick session entitled “Tips – Taking Care... 17 April 2009 2 min read
Louis Davidson The fourth pillar – Documented This blog probably won’t stir up a hornet’s nest or anything, but I would also expect that it would be... 15 April 2009 5 min read
Alex Davies The "Singleton" Design Flaw In my earlier post I mentioned that there are a couple of design patterns that I think are wholly wrong.... 15 April 2009 4 min read
Doctor Dionysus False Economies A couple of years ago, the small dot com company I work for embarked on a cost-cutting drive. In light... 15 April 2009 5 min read
Tony Davis What is "maintainable code"? “Maintainable code” does not mean the same thing to a DBA as it does to a developer. Production Support staff... 14 April 2009 3 min read
Rachel Potts Designing help from the inside out Red Gate is all about ingeniously simple tools. What does all this mean to those of us involved in making... 14 April 2009 6 min read
Louis Davidson Requirements vs Architecture Okay, so on the first look this sounds like the most boring Japanese action movie ever. Requirements is tearing through... 12 April 2009 6 min read
Roger Hart Words like things <p>Did anybody go to the Information Design Conference last week? If not, you missed a fascinating presentation by <a href=”http://www.infodesign.org.uk/2009-conference/speakers/wong.php”>Michèle... 09 April 2009 5 min read
