Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Reverse Creating the PBIP file from Source Control On my article about Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, I illustrate how to use the PBIP fileĀ format to include Power BI... 06 March 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Extended Source Control Features The source control features in Microsoft Fabric are evolving every day. The PBIP feature included in Power BI allowed us to include source control on... 29 November 2023 3 min read
Richard Morris Philip Greenspun: Geek of the Week Philip Greenspun is probably best known to other geeks for his Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad... 14 July 2015 19 min read
Robert Sheldon Deleting Files in the Cloud The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. IT in general prefers the fuzzier idea of the trashcan, where the... 23 September 2014 15 min read
Dwain Camps Calculating and Verifying Check Digits in T-SQL A lot of numbers that we use everyday such as Bank Card numbers, Identification numbers, and ISBN codes, have check digits. As part of the... 11 July 2014 24 min read
Edward Charbeneau Exploring HTML Prototypes with Git Git isn't just for source code, but it also helps with the prototyping of the user interface. It allows for faster iteration and a better... 14 December 2012 10 min read
Edward Charbeneau Writing Custom HTML Helpers for ASP.NET MVC Switching from developing ASP.NET WebForms to MVC might seem awkward at first, but Ed demonstrates why the change needn't be painful, and how best to... 24 October 2012 17 min read
Richard Morris Geek of the Week: Linus Torvalds For Windows programmers, Linus Torvalds work has suddenly become relevant. No, we don't mean Linux, but Git. This distributed Source Control system now works sweetly... 17 October 2011 15 min read
Matteo Slaviero TLS/SSL and .NET Framework 4.0 The Secure Socket Layer is now essential for the secure exchange of digital data, and is most generally used within the HTTPS protocol. .NET now... 28 September 2011 26 min read
Joe Celko Check your Digits The most persistent struggle in data processing has been to ensure clean data. There are many ways that data can be incorrect and a database... 07 April 2011 11 min read
Matteo Slaviero Symmetric Encryption Cryptography is an increasing requirement for applications, so it is great that it is part of the .NET framework. Matteo builds on his first article... 04 January 2010 11 min read
Richard Morris Donald Knuth: Geek of the Week Donald Knuth is an extraordinary man. As well as inventing 'Literate Programming' and writing the most important textbook on programming algorithms, he is also famous... 26 November 2009 14 min read
Matteo Slaviero Beginning with Digital Signatures in .NET Framework Digital Signatures aren't the most intuitive software devices to explain, but Matteo boldly gives a quick-start account of Asymmetric Cryptography and Digital Signatures before demonstrating... 07 October 2009 14 min read
Ben Lye Restricting Outlook Client Versions in Exchange 2007 There are good reasons for preventing old versions of Outlook from connecting to Exchange Server. You'll probably, at least, want to do it for security.... 29 July 2009 7 min read
Nick Harrison A Gentle Introduction to .NET Code Generation Code-generation has been used throughout the age of the digital computer. The use of code to generate code might, at first glance, seem an odd... 28 May 2009 13 min read