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]

Okay, so by weekly I mean that I will occasionally write about a developer tool in any given week. :) If you missed previous versions of the Weekly Tool Tip, be sure to check them out. This week I want to bring your attention back to .NET Reflector for a little feature called the Analyzer. It is us... [More]

When working in big projects one of my favorite ways to get around is to right-click on a variable, class name, or method call in code and select Go To Definition from the context menu. This quickly opens the file where the object you clicked on is defined and navigates to its definition. Very ha... [More]

JavaScript is definitely an interesting language. Unlike typical server-side code, we will often sacrifice readability for brevity in order to save a few bytes. Thanks to the many JavaScript compression apps out there, we don’t have to worry about this as much. But there are a few shortcuts I ... [More]