Effective Support
I had an awesome day today. Not because of any new technology, or interesting piece of side work (though those are fun), but because today I was asked to fill in for the daily support tasks at work (our main…
Hobbies
Hobbies are awesome, and in my particular line of work more often than not our hobby is also our career, or if not this, then something computer related (personally, Im an avid gamer). Im still not sure if this is…
Automation Is Your Friend
I thought I would share an experience with you all... Recently I had a deployment go out into production. At the time, the build went very smoothly; no issues with the deployments of the websites themselves, the db schema update…
SQL Filegroups & Blob Data: Part 2
Continuing on from this post, will be the SQL used to move our Blob Data to a different filegroup. The first step in creating a new filegroup for your all of your data is to create the actual filegroup itself.…
Windows 8 & Visual Studio 11
Today I had the pleasure of attending a Readify Dev Day. This is a day exclusively dedicated to technical discussion of upcoming technologies in the Microsoft world and today's topic was on Windows 8, the Metro UI and Visual Studio…
SQL Filegroups and Blob Data
Every now and then I get asked to do something really fun, and out of my normal purview of technology. We had a very large table in our database, filled with blob data from how we store our documents, and…
Learning
A developer should always be learning. I find this statement (one which I thought up only moments ago, staring at a blank screen wondering what to write) quite profound for me, at this particular point in my career. I say…
Dialects
Like most things in life, hardly anything actually ever goes to plan. I did intend on writing a more in-depth entry on the new async features in C# 5 during the weekend, but had an insane weekend filled with relatives…