Monday, 21 January 2013

The Perils of Interactive Service Account Sessions

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It’s common within the Enterprise to run the services (or daemon processes if you prefer) under a special “service account”. This account is...
Saturday, 19 January 2013

Layered Builds

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The kind of builds we do on our desktop are optimised for speed. We want that cycle of write test, write code, build, run test to be as fast...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Problem Domain Expert or Technical Expert or Even Both?

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The technology side of software development has always fascinated me far more than The Business Problems that we’re actually trying to solve...
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Monday, 7 January 2013

Logging & Redirection With PowerShell

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My relationship with PowerShell got off to a pretty rocky start. After going through all the noddy examples and running a few one-liners tha...
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Friday, 7 December 2012

To Wait Or Not - Turning Deadlock to Livelock

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On the system I’m currently working on we have always seen the occasional failure caused by the database going to sleep for longer than the ...
Thursday, 6 December 2012

Don’t Overload Stored Procedures Using Nullable Parameters

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One common technique for minimising change within the database layer is to “overload” a stored procedure’s functionality by using null-defau...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Interfaces Are Not the Only Abstract Fruit

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A while back I came across some code that I personally thought was over-engineered[1] and subsequently transferred my ire via Twitter. I wa...