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Michael Sorens Create PowerShell Cmdlets in C#: Step-by-Step Visual Studio Guide Create PowerShell cmdlets in C# using Visual Studio: 15 steps covering project setup, Cmdlet inheritance, CmdletAttribute, parameter decorators, pipeline input,... 19 February 2016 19 min read
Christos Matskas Using SignalR to Create Mobile Applications SignalR isn't just for web applications. It can also provide the basic real-time communications for a connected Windows Universal Application... 16 November 2015 12 min read
Doris Robinson Testing and the Application Lifecycle In application or database development, testing is too often given secondary importance. There are advantages to the whole delivery process... 07 October 2015 19 min read
David Berry Improving Web Page Performance Visitors to a website are put off by having to wait for pages to load. Additionally, Google uses the metric... 21 August 2015 17 min read
Tom Fischer Safe(r) Custom User-Authentication If you are still storing passwords with MD5 hashing you're doing it wrong. The .NET platform provides a Cryptography library... 12 June 2015 16 min read
Robert Sheldon Microservices in Promise and Practice Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that... 13 April 2015 18 min read
AWS Robert Sheldon in AWS Amazon’s Aurora: A Distributed SQL Database Alternative For MySQL Applications SQL-based distributed Cloud Relational databases aren't new, but Amazon's Aurora offers an alternative to SQL Azure, and, being MySQL-compatible, provides... 15 January 2015 13 min read
Bud Aaron How to set up a database-driven Azure site So how easy is it to set up a database-driven application on Azure, using the tools that one is familar... 26 April 2012 12 min read
Peter Larsson The Road to Professional Database Development: Set-Based Thinking Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from... 21 February 2012 7 min read
Tom Fischer Unit Testing Myths and Practices We all understand the value of Unit Testing, but how come so few organisations maintain unit tests for their in-house... 05 January 2012 9 min read
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