"This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of clarity. If you are interested in the minutia of the subject, please explore the References and Further Information at the end."

" This is a blog post I've been meaning to do for a while, and I've recently noticed some info on the web about checkpoints which is a little misleading, so I want to do a quick post to explain how checkpoints work as far as log records are concerned. "

"If a directory within an ASP.net website is deleted while the site is running, this causes the whole site to reboot, loosing any session data and logging out users."

"Here is a sample code that returns the current trust level, assuming this code (or the calling code up the stack), is not loaded from GAC:"

Very handy quick references!

"When ASP.NET receives a request for a page, it grabs a thread from a thread pool and assigns that request to the thread. A normal, or synchronous, page holds onto the thread for the duration of the request, preventing the thread from being used to process other requests. If a synchronous request becomes I/O bound-for example, if it calls out to a remote Web service or queries a remote database and waits for the call to come back-then the thread assigned to the request is stuck doing nothing until the call returns. That impedes scalability because the thread pool has a finite number of threads available. If all request-processing threads are blocked waiting for I/O operations to complete, additional requests get queued up waiting for threads to be free. At best, throughput decreases because requests wait longer to be processed. At worst, the queue fills up and ASP.NET fails subsequent requests with 503 "Server Unavailable" errors."

"No matter what kind of software you write, no matter what size company you work for, you probably have to provide estimates to someone. They may want to know how long the effort will take or how much it will cost. But no matter how you slice it, estimation is critical skill and essential to the success of any software development effort of any size or consequence."

"Kanban is becoming very popular for a lot of great reasons. However, the more people who try it means the more people who will do it completely wrong then blame Kanban for their mistakes and project failures. Like countless tools before it Kanban will suffer the blame of many for their own mistakes. Here are a few ways my teams and I have attempted to give Kanban a bad name, hopefully these examples will keep you from falling into similar traps."

"The Firebug command line provides these special functions for your convenience:"

"This is a question that I get very frequently, and I always tried to dodged the bullet, but I get it so much that I feel that I have to provide an answer. Obviously, I am (not so) slightly biased toward NHibernate, so while you read it, please keep it in mind. EF 4.0 has done a lot to handle the issues that were raised with the previous version of EF. Thinks like transparent lazy loading, POCO classes, code only, etc. EF 4.0 is a much nicer than EF 1.0. The problem is that it is still a very young product, and the changes that were added only touched the surface. I already talked about some of my problems with the POCO model in EF, so I won't repeat that, or my reservations with the Code Only model. But basically, the major problem that I have with those two is that there seems to be a wall between what experience of the community and what Microsoft is doing. Both of those features shows much of the same issues that we have run into with NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate. Issues that were addressed and resolved, but show up in the EF implementations."

"When I finished reading this post I let out a heavy sigh. It is not going to work. Basically, the EF is going the same way that NHibernate was in NHibernate 1.0 (circa 2005!)."

"Class-Level Model Validation with EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC 3 10 December 2010 11:05 AM"

"Resource Governor is a new feature and one of the most anticipated management features in SQL Server 2008. It bolsters SQL Server performance by allowing DBAs to establish resource limits and priorities on processor and memory-related workloads and resource pools. By defining resource limits on resource consumption, it is possible to prioritize multiple workloads in order to ensure consistent performance and maximize the experience of the end users and the efficiency of the applications without degradation."

"If a SQL query has parameters, SQL Server creates an execution plan tailored to them to improve performance, via a process called 'parameter sniffing'. This plan is stored and reused since it is usually the best execution plan. Just occasionally, it isn't, and you can then hit performance problems, as Greg Larsen explains."

" This post is a summary of and collection of links to information about the quality of workspace provided to software developers. Perhaps it can be useful to other software developers in a position to influence managers or may someday be in a position to make decisions about workspace design themselves."

" We have got new chrome experiments to showcase again! Always look forward for this post to show you what have been happening in HTML 5 and javascript development. Make sure you check out each of the experiment here, pretty sure they will blow you away! "

"NuGet (recently renamed from NuPack) is a free open source developer focused package manager intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. "

"Welcome to the Apache NMS project, the .NET Messaging API. This allows you to build .NET applications in C#, VB, or any other .NET language, using a single API to connect to multiple different providers."

"Quartz.NET is a port of very propular open source Java job scheduling framework, Quartz . This project owes very much to original Java project, it's father James House and the project contributors. Quartz.NET is a pure .NET library written in C# which currently targets Framework version 1.1 and above. Quartz.NET is feature-wise equal to Quartz Java 1.6 excluding Java specifics. Quartz.NET is already running in production systems and has received good feedback. "

"NHibernate's listeners architecture bring with it a lot of power to the game, but understanding how to use it some of the listeners properly may require some additional knowledge. In this post, I want to talk specifically about the pre update hooks that NHibernate provides."