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Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:31:02 GMT

How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005

An interview with Roy Osherove author of "The Art of Unit Testing"

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:46:02 GMT

A short interview with Roy Osherove, author of a new book "The Art of Unit Testing" and known blogger, who works on Typemock Isolator.

ASP.NET Hacks

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:46:08 GMT

At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first instalment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories: 1 Applications 2 Caching 3 Controls 4 Database 5 Dates 6 Debugging 7 Email 8 Encryption 9 Files 10 Images 11 Javascript 12 Objects and Classes 13 Pages 14 Sessions 15 Strings 16 Validation 17 Visual Studio 18 Web We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.

Danger in Design: Why bother with Architecture?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:01:12 GMT

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It's also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

Puzzle - Ascii Art in Shortest Code

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:47:28 GMT

This week's puzzle is to draw a couple shapes using characters, in as little code as possible.

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

C# Sorting winforms controls using linq

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:16:09 GMT

C# Sorting winforms controls using LINQ

lessthandot - Regular Pentagon Puzzle

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:00:48 GMT

We've decided to do a recurring feature at LessThanDot and have a "Programmer Puzzles" section with interesting puzzles published. This week the challenge is to identify the outer points in a regular pentagon (or n-sided polygon for extra credit), given the center point and the radius. You can use any programming language you like, just please let people know which one you have decided to use!

.NET Database Migration Tool Roundup

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:46:17 GMT

A overview of all the available DB Migration tools available on the .NET platform

The Evolution of Systems Integration

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:15:41 GMT

From Fax to SOA, a journey to success ? We've come a long way since the days of fax machines and typewriters - the objectives have remained pretty similar, and with each iteration of the solution we've found resolution to issues in the former, yet we continue to unveil new aspects of the objective that need addressing. Will we ever get to a perfect solution ?

SQL Server Programming Hacks

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:16:02 GMT

This is a collection of SQL hacks, right now there are 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks.

LessThanDot goes live!

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:46:06 GMT

The IT Community LessThanDot has been launched as of this morning, Sunday 1st June 2008.

Awesome web development and web design articles and sites in May 2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:31:12 GMT

This article shows a reviews of 16 great articles and sites I found in May 2008. There are articles about web development with ASP.NET, Ajax and jQuery. There are also a great web design resources, tools, plugins, BlogEngine.NET extensions and one great usability article.

The beauty of fluent interfaces

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:46:02 GMT

I notice that more and more frameworks, toolkits and libraries use fluent interfaces. This article gives examples on how FIs can improve usability of an API and show possible pitfalls.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #4

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:46:02 GMT

This is the fourth post in the series of programming job interview challenge. Today, I will provide the answer to job interview challenge #3, talk about readers answers (all of the comments are now approved) and give you a new challenge. So, lets get into business:

11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Over five years ago I posted Tips for a Successful MSFT Presentation. Yesterday I watched the video of my Mix Presentation all the way through. It's always very painful to hear one's own voice but it's even worse to watch yourself. I never listen to my podcast and I avoid watching myself. It's like watching a person in parallel universe and it inspires self-loathing. However, if you are someone who values continuous improvement - and I am - you need to do the uncomfortable.

Do you depend on sp_depends (no pun intended)

Sat, 17 May 2008 01:46:04 GMT

Why you cannot depend on the sp_depends proc when checking for dependent objects in SQL Server

Fast ASP.NET web page loading by batching javascripts downloads

Sat, 17 May 2008 01:01:12 GMT

Hack for the .Net script manager to pull all needed javascript files at once and push them to the bottom of the html to speed up rendering.