Software developers constantly need to learn about new technologies, products and methodologies. Think about what sort of programming you were doing 5 or 10 years ago. If you have been developing software that long, you will, no doubt, be working on very different systems now than you were then.
2006-07-05
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This article adds some handy reporting capabilities to the new load testing tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System.
2006-07-04
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Enter to win a Ms Pacman/Galaga arcade machine when you download and register a free version of Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions (free learning resources included).
2006-07-03
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The benefits and drawbacks of GUIDs as primary keys are generally known. Despite the drawbacks, some people use them to fulfill specific business requirements (the IDs are unique across multiple servers).
2006-06-30
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This article provides a guide for physical storage design and gives recommendations and trade-offs for physical hardware design and file architecture.
2006-06-29
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Use Linked Reports to provide multiple "versions" of a single source report, as a mechanism for restricting consumer groups to their respective data in accordance with a "need to know."
2006-06-28
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If I had a penny for every person who said "usability is just common sense", I'd have a pretty reasonable stack of pennies – maybe 30 or so. Clearly I'm not going to be able to retire on this, but at least it demonstrates that many people have misconceptions about how usable interfaces are designed.
2006-06-27
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This white paper describes how SQL Server 2005 uses tempdb. Many improvements in SQL Server 2005 optimize tempdb usage and make it easier to manage and to troubleshoot. A case study that uses a workload similar to TPC Benchmark H (TPC-H) shows new ways to manage and troubleshoot tempdb resources. This paper also includes items to consider when upgrading to SQL Server 2005 and configuring tempdb
2006-06-26
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The latest GotW award goes to Glenn Johnson, .NET trainer and author of Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications:
2006-06-23
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Although the challenges of designing and developing an embedded software package are obvious, the effort of providing remote support for the deployed application is often underestimated.
2006-06-22
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By HeyMo0sh
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