Warwick Rudd SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn SQL Server AlwaysOn provides a high-availability and Disaster-recovery solution for SQL Server 2012. It makes use of existing SQL Server... 15 May 2012 19 min read
Clive Tong C# Async: What is it, and how does it work? The biggest new feature in C#5 is Async, and its associated Await (contextual) keyword. Anybody who is faced with creating... 15 May 2012 20 min read
Timothy Wiseman SQL Scripts Manager and IronPython As well as running TSQL and PowerShell, the free SQL Scripts Manager tool can also run Python scripts. This allows... 04 May 2012 10 min read
Matt Wrock Towards the Perfect Build An automated build and deployment system is no longer a dream. Now that PowerShell has matured as a product, and... 30 April 2012 28 min read
Buck Woody Big Data is Just a Fad The Term 'Big Data' is nothing more than a fad, and we'll soon be cringing with embarrassment at the thought... 13 April 2012 12 min read
Shameer Introduction to OpenStack OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform based on Linux. It aims to allow organisations to run cloud services on standard... 10 April 2012 6 min read
Richard Morris Josh Klein: Big in the IT Business It is hard to categorize Josh Klein. Author, Technologist, Developer, Entrepreneur, polymath? He has participated in several startups, and is... 03 April 2012 12 min read
Hugh Bin-Haad Introducing IM#1: The Final One? Our resident expert in current advances in Computer Science, Professor Bin-Haad, reviews the first details to emerge about the experimental... 01 April 2012 16 min read
Grant Fritchey How to Get Information About Your Backups When you need to restore but aren't 100% sure about the contents of your backup files, what do you do?... 23 March 2012 18 min read
Joe Celko Bin Packing Problems: The SQL The 'bin packing' problem isn't just a fascination for computer scientists, but comes up in a whole range of real-world... 22 March 2012 10 min read
Sean Duffy Building a Daily Systems Report Email With PowerShell A combination of PowerShell and HTML can provide the basis of an easily-scanned report on the basic state of a... 16 March 2012 20 min read
Patrick Smacchia On Writing Unit Tests for C# Is it realistic to keep to principles of 'Test-First' and 100% coverage for unit tests when in the heat of... 08 March 2012 14 min read
Buck Woody The ASs of Distributed Computing What's The 'Cloud'? nothing more than one or more of three different types of distributed service, conceptually similar to any... 27 February 2012 16 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code Michael Sorens continues his series on source control with Subversion and TortoiseSVN by describing several ways one can use to... 13 February 2012 15 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Ola Bini Ola Bini is one of the core developers for JRuby, and creator of the JvYAML and RbYAML projects. He is... 08 February 2012 11 min read
Richard Morris Seth Godin: Big in the IT Business Seth Godin has transformed our understanding of marketing in IT. He invented the concept of 'permission marketing', sees the end... 02 February 2012 10 min read
Fabiano Amorim Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 3: Questions of Performance A SQL expression may look elegant on the page but it is only valuable if its performance is good. Do... 04 January 2012 12 min read
Jonathan Kehayias Great SQL Server Debates: Lock Pages in Memory There has been much debate over the need for the Lock Pages in Memory privilege, on 64-bit versions of SQL... 12 December 2011 19 min read
Simone Chiaretta ASP.NET MVC Routing Extensibility You develop an ASP.NET MVC application by extending it; customising any default logic that you wish to change with your... 09 December 2011 13 min read
Fabiano Amorim Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 2-The Frame Fabiano continues his introduction to SQL Server's implementation of the window functions by giving a history of what got implemented... 24 November 2011 13 min read
