I have been experimenting setting up a PHP development environment. I have been trying on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and Mac OS X.

Goal: Is to temporarily disable all foreign key constraint and later enable the Constraint again?

At http://www.red-gate.com/products/oracle-development/education/entrypage/svn-tortoise-oracle-ebook?utm\source=simpletalk&utm\medium=pubemail&utm\ad\content=SVNOraclecookbook-20130624&utm\campaign…

At http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/typescript, Syncfusion are a free E-book "TypeScript Succinctly" "The extensive adoption of JavaScript for application development, and the …

Was enjoying my Stright Talk service until receiving several MMS messages..

Recently I was speaking with a junior programmer who was worried he would get stuck on the bottom rung and was planning a lot of training to ensure that didn’t happen. I wish I’d said it at the tim…

I wanted to set the default termset node of a taxonomy field in a content type in a list.

As a follow up to the post I made in preparation of the 70-480 exam, I’d like to continue the series now with a look at the 70-486. Just like last time, we’ll look at a list of resources based on t…

In this computer era, security of data is very important. The source that helps in protecting data is the usage of encryption. Like you are using SQL server in your organization and have created la…

I'm glad my work laptop and my other machines are maintained centrally and not going out to get the latest updates on everything. We have one laptop running Home Premium that is setup to automatica…

I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes down to their use (or misuse) of ORM frame…

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Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my pa…

In this blog post, I will compare what it would take to perform the same project on a virtualized environment (on your own hardware) and hosted in a collocation environment (private hosting). As wi…

I’ve been a big Corsair fan for a long time. I’ve always had great luck with their RAM and other products.

I’ve been working on this on and off for over a year now (having essentially restarted entirely in the latter half of 2012). At last it is finished. I give you a Windows Store DirectX C++ Sample Ba…

This article shows that adding a TOP clause to the SQL SELECT query may greatly increase its execution time. It also shows very effective solution to fix this problem.

ASP.NET MVC 4 pluggable application modules

Sometimes you end up reading a great chapter and feel like writing a review about it… well here it is! Smile Chris Shaw (@SQLShaw, http://chrisshaw.wordpress.com ) wrote a chapter in the PRO SQL Se…

One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful.