Hi, well as per my annual ritual I’ve purchased Madden 2010. I’ve been buying Madden on PC, PS2 and 360 since 1995 and recently I started to question whether I should continue to do so in the face of lagging game quality, copious amounts of plainly obvious bugs and a […]
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If you’ve been following the blog for a while now, you’ll know there are two main database schemas I tend to work with for Proof of Concept (PoC) applications, movies and records (vinyl LPs). Last year I was building an Entity Framework based PoC using a schema made up of […]
Hi There! With some excitement brewing, I just got invitation codes to the first public CTP of SQL Azure – the successor to SQL Data Services (SDS) previously documented on this blog. Below is a screenshot of my first SQL Azure Server. As I start to develop with the new […]
There is a very good blog entry located here which lists questions every development team and team leads should ask themselves during development cycles. From the article: Whole team What can we automate? where are we "Reinventing the wheel"? what are the tools that slow us down? what tools can […]
That’s right, stay tuned for my review of Microsoft’s next release of the Windows platform, Windows version 7. The Release Candidate has been made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers already, and the public release is scheduled for around May 5th. The Beta release which has been out for a […]
I’ve heard a lot of confusion about Gmail and the routing of email to the wrong user account. I thought I’d repost this from the Gmail help section, to clear up confusions. It seems once you’ve managed to register an email address, no one else can register a variation containing […]
It’s always interesting to observe a couple of strong ideologues debate philosophic tenets in the public limelight. Especially when it relates to development process methodology. Whether this particular series of incidents merits much attention is anyone’s guess. However, if you hold (1) The Joel Test in any regard (and you […]
Well, I’ve lamented for about ten years about the lack of a clear development OS platform for software developers, testers and related folk. It seems Microsoft don’t plan on any changes in that regard with the next OS – Windows 7. This (1) little press release – a Q&A with […]
Recently I went digging for a solution to a problem which has been bugging me on Windows Server 2008. It seems once connected to a virtual private network (via PPTP, peer to peer tunnelling) when you try to authenticate to non-VPN network resources, Windows passes your VPN credentials instead – […]
So this may not come as a surprise to many, but Microsoft have taken the Windows 7 into a public beta. As I understand it, MSDN and TechNet subscribers already have access, and the general public will too, tomorrow (AEST). Windows version 7 is the next major version of the […]
Over at MSDN there has been published a (1) fairly comprehensive paper on development under Windows 7. Some particular points of interest/new features include: "Windows 7 is designed to run on the same hardware as Windows Vista, and to be compatible with applications and device drivers that work with Windows […]
Hi Everyone, Over the past week I’ve been putting together a new site to practice honing those ASP/.Net 3.5 Skills. It’s a revamp of the Aussie Wine Guy web site, and I’ve chosen Viux [http://www.viux.com/] as the host provider for the new site. The pricing is pretty good, and I’ve […]
In the last entry, we looked at basic querying with a web browser and viewing service metrics. This entry will examine administrative commands and bulk uploading options using the SDS administration utility (st.exe) which is part of the SDS SDK. Migrating Data To SQL Data Services There’s really no fun […]
In the previous entry we reviewed how to create entities, but what do we do now? Before I go into detail on how to interact with SDS directly, let’s take some time to go over the fundamentals of querying with SDS. This entry will focus on some of the techniques […]
In the last entry, we established a way of programmatically creating an SDS Authority and Containers. In this entry we will focus on creating data Entities using the SOAP interface. Review In Part 1, we saw how the relationship is defined between objects in the SQL Data Services world. An […]