Richard Morris Brian Kernighan: Geek of the Week When anyone mentions 'Kernighan and Ritchie', we all know what they are referring to: that brief book that introduced the... 19 May 2010 13 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Esterbrook: Geek of the Week The Cobra Programming Language is an exciting new general-purpose Open-source language for .NET or Mono, which features unit tests, contracts,... 26 April 2010 13 min read
Phil Factor The Cobra Programming Language There are suddenly a number of strong alternatives to C# or VB. F#, IronPython and Iron Ruby are now joined... 26 April 2010 9 min read
Richard Morris Cristina Cifuentes: Geek of the Week Cristina Cifuentes was already well-known for her work on decompilers before she took the development of Sun Microsystems 'Parfait' bug-checking... 30 March 2010 13 min read
Michael Sorens Using LINQ Lambda Expressions to Design Customizable Generic Components LINQ makes code easier to write and maintain by abstracting the data source. It provides a uniform way to handle... 27 January 2010 25 min read
Phil Factor Connection Strings, an Overview We asked Phil to come up with a simple explanation of connection strings. We somehow weren't expecting a 'quote of... 26 November 2009 13 min read
Richard Morris Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages... 02 September 2009 7 min read
Phil Factor CLR Assembly RegEx Functions for SQL Server by Example Phil Factor presents a simple CLR Assembly to allow SQL Server users to access all the powerful RegEx library methods... 15 April 2009 15 min read
Richard Morris Anders Hejlsberg: Geek of the Week Anders Hejlsberg, the creative genius behind C#, and much of the .NET framework, had already been famous for sixteen years... 19 March 2009 10 min read
Amirthalingam Prasanna .NET Collection Management with C# 3.0 Generics in C#, enable you to define classes, interfaces, delegates or methods with placeholders for parameterized types used within. This... 25 February 2008 8 min read
Phil Factor The Simple Talk SQL Prettifier Tired of struggling through dull, monchrome SQL, C# and VB code in website blogs and forums? Then check out the... 22 May 2007 11 min read
Mike Bloise Tracing memory leaks in .NET applications with ANTS Profiler With only 24 hrs to go to the release of his brand new C# 2005 CRM application, Mike Bloise encountered... 29 September 2006 8 min read
Phil Wilson Using BITS to Upload Files with .NET Although FTP is commonly used to transfer files over the Internet, it's somewhat unfriendly to firewalls. Phil Wilson shows you... 04 September 2006 16 min read
Damon Armstrong .NET Application Architecture: the Data Access Layer Find out how to design a robust data access layer for your .NET applications.… 11 July 2006 14 min read
Phil Wilson Build and Deploy a .NET COM Assembly Phil Wilson demonstrates how to build and deploy a .NET COM assembly using best practices, and how to access it... 15 May 2006 28 min read
