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I am asked all of the time about the performance of managed vs. unmanaged code and "how much slower is it?". This is one of the questions I am going to attempt to answer using experimentation. In this post I'll talk about some of the theory...
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Pat is an excellent presenter and a friend. I am also excited about SQL Server and Pizza so this meeting was a winning combination for me! It was also nice to see some familiar faces and had a small but decent turnout. Environment The meeting started...
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Have you ever noticed that with IE7 you can only download 2 files from any given domain at any given time? It's actually slightly worse than that, you may only have 2 connections total, including a connection to request web pages. That means if you...
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Environment I have to admit, I was very excited when I saw this was going to be a topic for the users group meeting. I am very interested in hardware! I remember building my own connector to the computer to communicate with my calculator (TI-86). I always...
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Every company I consult with invariably has their own "security" assembly and they all have a hard-coded encryption key with the IV and the method to decrypt is right next to the method to encrypt. This is what I call marginal protection . Yes...
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I am not a gamer! I would get killed playing anything modern! I was never very good at the games I did play (back in the 90's) like Marathon or StarCraft. I did like games before that but they were mostly DOS based games. I loved Cyberbox, a little...
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Have you ever needed to add a line to a config file like: < type ="Config.RoleService, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> These fully qualified types are not easy to figure out...
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Naming conventions are like arm pits. Everyone has them and they all stink! Well, at least that's the perspective of pretty much every developer an DBA alike. I will present my own personal philosophy for naming conventions on databases and hopefully...
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These past two weeks have been very exciting for me. I have gotten to be involved in some R&D for one of the companies that I consult for. I LOVE R&D! There is always a better way to do things and poking your head out from the sand every once...
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When I seem to have re-occurring themes happen naturally I find that those are good things to blog about. Recently I was speaking with my brother (who has incessant adware problems) about Internet Safety and Cyber Security. A week or two ago I had a stimulating...
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Recently, some Linux developers have condemned the practice of shipping drivers without the source in an open petition . The reasoning for such a petition is that "any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We...
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For now on you may address me as my proper title: I wish the title was a little less blasphemous; therefore you may alternately call me 'King Nerd'. That would also match with my wife who is a "Slightly Dorky Nerd Queen". I also scored...
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Those who know me will tell you that Microsoft might as well just put me on payroll because I talk about their new products all day long. I have even characterized myself as an "Unofficial, Unpaid, Microsoft Solutions Evangelist". Having said...
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The term "circular dependency" may be foreign to some programmers (especially if you do Java as it is a pretty common practice). However, anyone who has done some scripting for a referential database knows that you have to run scripts in a certain...
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