Tag Archives: development

A Test Client for Zero Downtime Deployments

I’ll be at VS Live in Las Vegas this March to discuss zero downtime deployments. If you want to come and join me for this session, or any of the other great ones, register today and save $500 with the … Continue reading

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Minimize Typing

It couldn’t have happened to a worse set of people, and I’m glad it did, but I’ll still take a positive lesson out of this. A hacker sent a typo in a command to a botnet and lost control. That’s … Continue reading

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The Programming Languages We Use

Many of you reading this probably work primarily in SQL. Even if you are a developer whose main language is something else, you write a lot of SQL. Even if you have an ORM writing the SQL that goes into … Continue reading

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T-SQL Tuesday #158–Implementing Worst Practices

Not that I’m looking to do this, but that’s the invitation from Raul Gonzalez this month. This is the monthly blog party where we write on a topic chosen by the host. All topics are tracked at T-SQL Tuesday, and … Continue reading

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