Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: The Basics

Although PowerShell Cmdlets are usually written in PowerShell, there are occasions when the level of integration with existing C# or VB libraries is awkward to...

19 February 2016 18 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 or even iOS and Android...

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 if testers can get involved...

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 to rank your site. Why,...

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 that allows you to develop...

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 monolithic architectures have circumvented? Are...

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 the obvious route to the...

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 with. There are several different...

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 SQL. How does he do...

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 applications? We can no longer...

05 January 2012 9 min read

Michael Sorens

Subversion and TortoiseSVN Cookbook Part 1- The Basics

If you have more than zero developers in your team, then you need Source Control. In this article Michael starts a series that aims to...

03 November 2011 23 min read

Learn SQL Server

Chris Shaw in Learn SQL Server

Building Your DBA Skillset

As a DBA and hiring manager, Chris Shaw has been on those sides of the recruitement process. As an MVP and active member of the...

06 July 2011 23 min read

Troy Hunt

The unnecessary evil of the shared development database

One of the greatest pain-points in developing a database-driven application happens when the application is in source control,but the database isn't. When the development database...

23 March 2011 16 min read

Phil Factor

To Boldly Ask IT for Development Work

Phil has always been mystified by the way that, in Science-Fiction films, the crew of space-ships are able to reprogram their ships' computers in order...

22 June 2009 10 min read