Achievement Unlocked: Be a Great Developer!
About a year ago, I was sitting in a pub with Steve and Rob. We were talking about this and that, when we came up with an idea. Now, I say “we”…but I...
Read More.NET Demon from RedGate: continuous compilation
The guys at RedGate have just released a Beta of a new tool, an extension for Visual Studio called .NET Demon. Firstly, for everyone: it continuously compiles your code,...
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Welcome to the Future: Code Reviews, Questions on Code etc
9am. Mary is writing code. So…uhhh, yep, that goes there, and then that value gets passed to here…and, oh? What’s that doing there? That doesn’t...
Read MoreTop Tools for 2012
Everyone else does a ‘top tools’ list, so I thought I’d join in. Before I do though, I must defer to the most excellent Scott Hanselman’s 2011...
Read MoreMonitor Performance of your Apps at run-time…with PerfMon!
Ben Day has a blog post on a really interesting idea: using Performance Monitor (perfmon) to monitor the performance of your applications at run-time. You can create...
Read MoreGetting Last Known Reboot Time
This is more of an aide-memoir for me than anything else. To find out when a server was last rebooted: System Event Log, filter for EventID 6009 on Windows 2008 you can...
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