Firefox! Please! I love you so much, please relenquish your iron grip on my resources, as you are rendering my computer useless. I like to have just one browser open, and sometimes get up to about 10 tabs open in that browser. Its becoming more common that Firefox (I’m using 1.0.7) locks up and I have...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Stay tuned to this blog for weekly...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Stay tuned to this blog for weekly...

In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, especially with the wonderul new Sql Server Express, I have committed myself to about half a dozen posts or so targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Stay tuned to this blog for weekly...

Yes, it finally made it to 1.0 ! Yay for NHibernate ! NHibernate is one of those object persistence tools I’ve played around with a bit, like Wilson OR Mapper or LLBLGenPro . I’ve used all three here and there on different projects, but haven’t committed to one yet. Not that I was really waiting on NHibernate...

I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy. Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week. So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed them the first time around. Coupling, Abstractness...

This is the first post of many to come that talk about new enhancements in the Sql Server 2005 T-Sql language. INTERSECT Let say you have a products table. I’m going to use the products table from the AdventureWorks database. Now let’s say you imported a list of products into the database into a table...

Value types are created on the stack. Reference types are created on the heap. When something is created on the heap (an object) the variable assigned to that object holds a 4 byte “pointer” to the address space on the heap where the object has been allocated. Every time you pass that variable as a parameter...

In a comment to this post , Darrell suggested I describe where high factors of coupling are appropriate. I’ll take it one step further and show you how to use those factors to determine the stability of an assembly and application, measure abstractness, and how to look at both to determine how useful...

I was asked to put together this high-level and traditional software life cycle information as a favor for a friend of a friend, so I thought I might as well share it with everybody. The General Model Software life cycle models describe phases of the software cycle and the order in which those phases...