To simplify the management of user access to SQL Server my company recently implemented a policy limiting the number of local login accounts. Software developers are now required to use their domain accounts to access and work within SQL Server. This new policy works great, except for those of us wh... [More]

I'm excited to be taking part in my first Give Camp this weekend. Over 80 developers are getting together to donate a weekend of coding to 19 charities and non-profits who need our help. But we could still use a few more folks to help out, so if you're free this weekend please consider joining... [More]

Many thanks again to Telerik for inviting me to take part in the kick-off webinar for their Q1 2010 release. I had a lot of fun and was pleased to get to show off some of my favorite features in the new release. If you missed the webinar, it’s already up on Telerik TV so be sure to check it out. For... [More]

That’s right, Telerik was kind enough to extend an invite to me (and other fellow Telerik MVPs) to help co-host a webinar this week. I have the good fortune of sharing the virtual stage with Todd Anglin, Telerik’s Chief Evangelist (and my old boss!), to kick off another exciting release week with... [More]

I do a lot of database development, so I have several SQL Server and Oracle instances running on my system at any given time. Tonight I wanted to remove an instance of SQL Server that I installed a few weeks ago, but didn’t want to remove SQL Server in its entirety because I have other instances run... [More]

I’m often confronted with the need to take a collection of values and transform them into a different set of values. For example, I want to use Twitter’s search API to get a list of tweets on a certain topic. However, I am only interested in retrieving the URLs to the home pages of each ... [More]

Recently I had the need to add some custom processing to the contents of a RadGrid. I decided that the most desirable solution would be to add a menu of options in the footer of the grid, but unfortunately the RadGrid does not support footer templates. I don’t know if this is because there are other... [More]

Most web developers are keenly aware of the browser’s same-origin policy which prevents document elements (including scripts) from accessing elements of a document from a different origin. A document is considered to be of the same origin if it shares the same protocol, port, and host. For exa... [More]

A few weeks ago a StackOverflow user asked whether or not a RadGrid row could be selectable based upon some condition. I've run into scenarios in the past where this feature would have come in handy, but unfortunately the functionality is not provided in the RadGrid out of the box. However, as is co... [More]

I've been pretty quiet for the last few months...life just seems to get in the way of my blogging time I guess. But with a new year (and decade!) started, it's time to pay this blog a bit more attention. However, before I dust the cobwebs off I need to migrate this blog to my new Windows Server 2008... [More]