On Building a Data-Driven E-Commerce Site
The following is a preprint of an article for the NDC Magazine to be published in Apri. It had been a long, hard week at work. I had my feet up...
The incomplete list of impolite WP7 dev requests
In my previous list of WP7 user requests, I piled all of my user hopes and dreams for my new WP7 phone (delivery date: who the hell knows) onto the...
Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C#
My dear friend Craig Andera posted an implementation of a function that descends into a directory in a “lazy” manner, i.e. you get the first...
The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests
When I first moved from the combination of a dumb phone and a separate music player, I had modest requirements: phone calls, MP3 playback, calendar...
“Deep Fried Bytes Podcast”: Lars on SQL Server Modeling
Here’s how the Deep Fried guys describe episode 45: “At PDC 2009, ‘Oslo’ was renamed to SQL Modeling and it left a lot of developers scratching...
SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 2)
update of the SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009)RCCTPNETRCRC...
Please don’t run apps in the background on my WP7 phone!
When I was but a wee lad, I learned that when it came to my computer, I was often going to be waiting on something, whether it was the CPU, the IO...
Update for SQL Server Modeling CTP and Dev10 RC
We are currently preparing a release of the SQL Server Modeling November 2009 CTP that will install and operate with Visual Studio Release...