When Random Isn't the Right Random
Nearly any engineer worth his or her salt will likely agree that consistency is important. If they don’t, they probably haven’t ever worked on »
Why is My SQL Server Query Slow?
As applications and their associated databases grow, things change. Rows get modified, schema get updated, and often, things can slow down. These performance hits may come »
Happy New ... C# 9 Features!
As one of my languages du jour, I've always had a fondness for C#. It was one of the first high-level languages that I learned in »
Just Jump into the Stream
I've spent the better part of my ten-year career as a developer in a relatively safe bubble, technology-wise. Falling in love with a programming language or »
The Bug That Got Away
One thing that I've always loved hearing about from fellow engineers or reading about on technical blogs are bugs. Nasty ones. Ones that keep you up »
Slightly Rough Exchanges: Troubleshooting Transactional Issues with TransactionScope
In my previous post, I discussed the use of TransactionScope within C# and how it might simplify how transactions are managed within your applications. It covered »
Smooth Transactions with TransactionScope
In the real world, we deal with transactions all the time, even though we rarely think of them as such. Things like driving to work or »
Visual Studio, Why Can't You Just Let Me Have This One (Solution Folder)?
If you've ever worked in a large code-base of around a hundred or so projects, then you know that organizing your code can almost be as »
Making Your .NET Application Less Quirky
I'd like to believe that as developers, we are always looking for those silver-bullet type solutions. The ones where we just add a single line of »
I Don't Know Crap About Security (Or At Least I Didn't)
Recently, I was involved in a project that required doing some serious locking down of an application prior to an extensive audit (with potentially millions of »