Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users
"A simple user interface to automate the batch processing of comparing Sql Server table data using the tablediff.exe utility that comes with Sql Server 2005/2008. "
"There can be a great difference in the performance of a particular routine in a test database, and in a fully loaded production system. When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them? Read on..."
"This topic describes patterns that you can use to load related entities. Entity types can define navigation properties that represent associations in the data model. You can use these properties to load entities that are related to the returned entity by the defined association. When entities are generated based on the data model, navigation properties are generated for entities at both ends of an association. These navigation properties return either a reference on the "one" end of a one-to-one or many-to-one relationship or a collection on the "many" end of a one-to-many or many-to-many relationship. For more information, see Navigation Properties and Defining and Managing Relationships. "
"Many of us have been using a good deal of jQuery plugins lately. Below I have
provided a list of the 50 favorite plugins many developers use. Some of these
you may have already seen, others might be new to you.
This is just the
first series , the second version will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!"
" Robert Myers has more than 25 years of professional experience on software development teams, having consulted for leading companies in aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors. He has trained and coached teams in XP and Scrum since 1999. Rob now continues these activities as Agile Coach at Salesforce.com. He blogs occasionally at PowersOfTwo.agileinstitute.com. "
"Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin."
" WebPutty gives you a syntax-highlighting CSS editor you can use from anywhere, the power of SCSS and Compass, a side-by-side preview pane, and instant publishing with minification, compression, and automatic cache control. "
" The Manual.su's project. All cheat sheets, round-ups, quick reference cards, quick reference guides and quick reference sheets in one page. The only one you need. "
"In case you are not aware, a developer preview version of Visual Studio vNext has been released yesterday. I just played an hour with it and it seems that performances are finally here! The same way I skipped Vista to jump from XP to Wnd7 that I love, I am (as much as I can) skipping VS2010 and I'll jump from VS2008 to VS2012 that I'll hopefully love. A few random notes:"
"The tablediff utility is used to compare the data in two tables for non-convergence, and is particularly useful for troubleshooting non-convergence in a replication topology. This utility can be used from the command prompt or in a batch file to perform the following tasks:"
"Everyone's up in arms to embrace distributed version control as the new must-have tool for the developer in the know. Though many people have not yet migrated from Subversion, those that have almost invariably extoll the virtues of their particular choice. But though all of the major DVCS's have features that set them above the previous generation of centralized systems, none stands head-and-shoulders above the others as Subversion does among the last generation: each of them was designed for a specific purpose, and each of them will serve those with different habits, workflows and development styles differently. Having used both git and Mercurial for the better part of a year, I've had the opportunity to compare the two. It saddened me to see a Twitter-based debate flamewar erupt over which is better, so I thought I'd do my best to try and ease the tension - with analogies!"
