Chris Falter

Recently I was discussing SQL Server encryption with some friends who have been using it to encrypt short strings such as Social Security numbers at their…

When you are coding in a hurry, it is very tempting to write business logic in the first place that comes to mind, such as a button click handler.…

If you're not living DRY, you're not a good programmer. Okay, I'm not talking about alcohol consumption! I'm talking about the Don't Repeat Yourself…

All of us have probably written code like this: Foo f = new Foo(); And what could be simpler? As long as the logic in the constructor is simple (or better…

I spent much of last weekend running tests against a table with 122,000 records. The folks at Citibank and Geico would just yawn at that amount of data,…

In previous versions, ASP.NET considered the web.config file to be untouchable. What you, the developer, wrote into the file may as well have been…