This entry won’t be much to anyone used to working with sql or refactoring or the With Clause, but sometimes I like to just walk thru how I started and how I ended when refactoring, and SQL can be refactored just like any other type of code. I ...[Read More]

YES, YES, YES. As Scott put’s it SO WELL: We need a word that says "I know tech" when you're on the phone with tech support, you'd just say "Fizzbin" and they'd know. I hate that 5 minute to 5 hour long "ramp up&q ...[Read More]

They are keeping us hopping, those of us trying to become Live Framework programmers.  With MVC, Live Framework Development, Mesh, and Azure programming, just trying to keep my system set-up and and working with the latest stuff is a chore in of i ...[Read More]

This one is a personal thing for me, as ANYONE who has spent any time programming with me at all knows.  I have almost walked away from a job because i feel so strong about it… so what is this thing that I hate so much: why nothing else but the low ...[Read More]

In order to help my clients and I share files, I’ve been running an FTP site on my servers for the past year and a half, and it has been a good thing, but… It represents one more “face” to my servers that hackers attempt to attack.  My prot ...[Read More]

So today I had a question from one of my compadres who isn’t very strong in T-SQL.  He had originally designed his database using a publically visible property to associate two tables which is a no-no in my book (and that’s a whole other article ...[Read More]

I’m working with a colleague on a new ASP.NET MVC web application, and for various reasons he needed to implement some login security for the public.  So he decided to use the built in security provider that was built on top of the ASP.NET provid ...[Read More]

So I have made a commitment over the next 3 months that as long as I sit down at my computer at least once a day, I will post at least one Blog entry (just to get in the habit).  So after getting my website all up and running I had to start lookin ...[Read More]