Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell: Pruning File Trees and Extending Cmdlets One of the most radical features of PowerShell is amongst the least known. It is possible to extend the buit-in... 23 April 2012 21 min read
Phil Factor The TSQL of CSV: Comma-Delimited of Errors Despite the neglect of the basic ODBC drivers over the years, they still afford a neat way of reading from,... 13 April 2012 20 min read
A Cloudy Place Engine Testing Using EC2 Jeff Foster, a Software Engineer on Red Gate's SQL Source Control product, has recently begun investigating the use of Amazon's... 12 April 2012 6 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 Geek of the Week: Tom Igoe Arduino is cheap and simple way that desktop computers can monitor the physical world, and control devices. It is an... 30 March 2012 15 min read
Robert Sheldon Implementing Foreach Looping Logic in SSIS With SSIS, it is possible to implement looping logic into SSIS's control flow in order to define a repeating workflow... 27 March 2012 13 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 6: Snapshots Moving backwards in time in Subversion is like time travel in science fiction. It's fine to look around, but If... 19 March 2012 14 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 5: Instrumenting Files with Version Information Subversion lets you embed, and automatically update, information within source-controlled files to make it easy to see who did what,... 21 February 2012 19 min read
Dino Esposito A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It... 14 February 2012 9 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
Johan Veldhuis Migrating from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync: Part 4 Having migrated the rest of our users and legacy resources across and started getting ready to decommission OCS 2007 R2,... 06 February 2012 14 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around Subversion doesn't have to be difficult, especially if you have Michael Sorens's guide at hand. After dealing in previous articles... 16 January 2012 15 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
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
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 2: File Operations and Subversion Filtering The second part of Michael's series of articles gives more recipes for Subversion Source Control. This time he explains how... 21 November 2011 21 min read
Richard Morris Michael Pilato: Geek of the Week For a large number of .NET developers, Subversion is Source Control. The book they go to to find out how... 08 November 2011 16 min read
William Brewer Database Source Control – The Cribsheet As part of our long-running Cribsheet series, we asked William to come up with a brief summary of what was... 08 November 2011 25 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... 03 November 2011 23 min read
Learn SQL Server Roy Ernest in Learn SQL Server Resource Governor If you suffer from runaway queries, if you have several database applications with unpredictable fluctuation in workload, or if you... 26 October 2011 23 min read
