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February 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:24 PM

Agile For Customers

Tom Hollander wrote about why your customers will love agile (even if they think they hate it) last week, and made several interesting observations about how agile methodology has taken hold in many companies and teams, and why customers should really
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:22 AM

Money For Content - Book

I've been reading a ton of books, as usual, lately. The interesting thing, to me at least, is that I'm actually trying to make time to read some books that aren't technical, which is quite refreshing. For a while there, I was in "keep up with everything
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Friday, February 22, 2008 10:30 AM

Use Unit Test Framework to Test Production DB Consistency

For Lake Quincy Media 's AdSignia Ad Server, I wanted to be able to ensure that the database had some internal logic rules checked periodically. What kinds of rules? Well, probably an example would be best. Suffice to say up front, though, that we're
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:22 PM

Scott Guthrie Promoted to Corporate Vice President

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a number of promotions, among them Scott Guthrie , who is now Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division ( executive profile - promotion press release ). Many of you know Scott from his extremely popular blog
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Friday, February 15, 2008 4:36 PM

Stored Procedure Performance Varies Between ADO.NET and Management Studio

I ran into this very annoying issue earlier this week, that my buddy and SQL guru Gregg Stark was able to track down for me. I have a fairly intense XtraReport report that gets its data from a stored procedure. When I run that stored procedure in SQL
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Friday, February 08, 2008 2:07 PM

CIO Magazine on Agile Development

The latest issue of CIO Magazine has a featured article on Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development . It includes quotes from a bunch of developers, including some names you'll surely recognize if you follow Agile discussions
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Monday, February 04, 2008 5:02 PM

Windows Release Schedule 2008

For those of you eagerly awaiting Window Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn), especially you ASP.NET types salivating over IIS7 , the wait is nearly over. Today Microsoft has announced that it as released Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 to manufacturing.
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Monday, February 04, 2008 11:41 AM

Hosting Experience

I've recently completed a fairly major database server move involving about a dozen production databases running on a single server, along with a rather old Lyris installation that handles all of the mailing lists on AspAdvice.com . Both the old and
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:05 AM

Microsoft Proposes Yahoo Acquisition

This just in - Microsoft has proposed to acquire Yahoo for $31 per share in a $44B deal. The full details, including the letter sent from Steve Ballmer to the Yahoo board can be found here . If this deal goes through, it should help Microsoft to compete
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