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Release Database Schemas", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/05/debug-release-database-schemas.html", "published_at": "2010-05-23T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea336f1e3", "title": "The Dying Art of RTFM", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/05/dying-art-of-rtfm.html", "published_at": "2010-05-19T20:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea34385ba", "title": "Refactoring – Do You Tell Your Boss?", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/05/refactoring-do-you-tell-your-boss.html", "published_at": "2010-05-11T20:54:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea3e7819f", "title": "My ACCU Conference 2010 Lightning Talk", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-accu-conference-2010-lightning-talk.html", "published_at": "2010-05-08T19:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea444cace", "title": "Happy Birthday, Blog", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-birthday-blog.html", "published_at": "2010-04-30T22:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea4d231ec", "title": "Object Finalized Whilst Invoking a Method", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/04/object-finalized-whilst-invoking-method.html", "published_at": "2010-04-09T22:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea4ee194b", "title": "Turning Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Incompetence", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/04/turning-unconscious-incompetence-to.html", "published_at": "2010-04-07T21:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea54fbc31", "title": "Lured Into the foreach + lambda Trap", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/04/lured-into-foreach-lambda-trap.html", "published_at": "2010-04-01T19:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea580d1cd", "title": "Integration Testing with NUnit", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/03/integration-testing-with-nunit.html", "published_at": "2010-03-30T21:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea640ef07", "title": "Cleaning up svn:mergeinfo Droppings", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/03/cleaning-up-svnmergeinfo-droppings.html", "published_at": "2010-03-12T22:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea717d35a", "title": "WCF Service Refusing Connections", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/03/wcf-service-refusing-connections.html", "published_at": "2010-03-08T21:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea7fce400", "title": "xUnit Style Database Unit Testing", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/xunit-style-database-unit-testing.html", "published_at": "2010-02-27T23:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea8d918af", "title": "Coders at Work – Jamie Zawinski", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/coders-at-work-jamie-zawinski.html", "published_at": "2010-02-23T22:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea9735ca5", "title": "Process Explorer Failed to Display DLLs or Handles", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/process-explorer-failed-to-display-dlls.html", "published_at": "2010-02-21T20:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ea9d1ff3c", "title": "My [Unit] Testing Epiphany", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-unit-testing-epiphany.html", "published_at": "2010-02-13T10:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eaa7cb03a", "title": "WCF Weirdy – NetTcpBinding, EndpointIdentity and Programmatic Configuration", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/wcf-weirdy-nettcpbinding.html", "published_at": "2010-02-07T20:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eaadf09e6", "title": "TFD vs TLD – What’s The Definition of “Later”?", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/02/tfd-vs-tld-whats-definition-of-later.html", "published_at": "2010-02-02T20:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eab1a882e", "title": "Company-Wide IRC Style Chat & Messaging", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/01/company-wide-irc-style-chat-messaging.html", "published_at": "2010-01-31T22:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eab88aab6", "title": "Why is C++ Getting Left on the Bench?", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/01/why-is-c-getting-left-on-bench.html", "published_at": "2010-01-28T20:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eac608464", "title": "Two Book Reviews Published in This Month’s C Vu Magazine", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-book-reviews-published-in-this.html", "published_at": "2010-01-25T20:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eacc6e29e", "title": "So Long and Thanks For All the Onions", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2010/01/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-onions.html", "published_at": "2010-01-21T19:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505eaccda57f", "title": "From SourceSafe to ClearCase to Subversion", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2009/11/from-sourcesafe-to-clearcase-to.html", "published_at": "2009-11-29T22:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ead3046bc", "title": "C# + C++ + C++/CLI – Context Switch Hell", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2009/11/c-c-ccli-context-switch-hell.html", "published_at": "2009-11-22T10:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c56a-6b6a-7258-bcd3-505ead5bd286", "title": "Adjusting to the C#/.Net Ecosystem", "url": "https://chrisoldwood.blogspot.com/2009/11/adjusting-to-cnet-ecosystem.html", "published_at": "2009-11-12T22:51:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2012

Don’t Overload Stored Procedures Using Nullable Parameters original ↗

6 Dec 2012

Interfaces Are Not the Only Abstract Fruit original ↗

5 Dec 2012

Value Type or Reference Type? An Acid Test original ↗

3 Dec 2012

Whatever Happened to UML?original ↗

30 Nov 2012

Primitive Domain Types - Too Much Like Hard Work?original ↗

29 Nov 2012

Using Nullable Columns to Handle Large Table Schema Changes original ↗

20 Nov 2012

From Test Harness To Support Tool original ↗

20 Nov 2012

The File-System Is An Implementation Detail original ↗

19 Nov 2012

When Does a Transient Failure Stop Being Transient?original ↗

13 Nov 2012

The Cost of Defensive Programming original ↗

12 Nov 2012

Include the Units in Configuration Data original ↗

9 Nov 2012

Sensible Defaults original ↗

7 Nov 2012

Service Providers Are Interested In Your Timeouts Too original ↗

2 Nov 2012

Don’t Rewrite, Refactor original ↗

30 Oct 2012

Constraints Are Logical, Indexes Are Physical original ↗

29 Oct 2012

Instrument Everything You Can Afford To original ↗

16 Oct 2012

Regular Expressions Should Only Be An Implementation Detail original ↗

12 Oct 2012

Putting the Cost of Change Into Perspective original ↗

8 Oct 2012

Black Hole - The Fail Fast Anti-Pattern original ↗

17 Sept 2012

From Visual C++ to GCC - Linker Order Matters original ↗

14 Sept 2012

Can Code Be Too Simple?original ↗

13 Sept 2012

Maintaining VCS History Across Refactorings original ↗

10 Sept 2012

Assume Failure by Default original ↗

7 Sept 2012

Beware the Complacency Unit Testing Brings original ↗

4 May 2012

My “Agile SQL Tweet” Slide original ↗

4 May 2012

My ACCU Conference Session - Database Development Using TDD original ↗

2 May 2012

OK & Apply - A Failed UI Experiment?original ↗

22 Feb 2012

Copy-and-Paste Can Help Avoid Mistakes Too original ↗

22 Feb 2012

Don’t Let Your Tools Pwn You original ↗

21 Feb 2012

2011

Diagnostic & Support User Interfaces original ↗

20 Dec 2011

New SQL Tools - SS-Unit, SS-Cop & sql2doxygen original ↗

11 Dec 2011

Null String Reference vs Empty String Value original ↗

28 Nov 2011

I Know the Cost but Not the Value original ↗

23 Nov 2011

Cookbook Style Programming original ↗

22 Nov 2011

PowerShell & .Net - Building Systems as Toolkits original ↗

19 Nov 2011

Merging Visual Studio Setup Projects - At My Wix End original ↗

15 Nov 2011

C#/SQL Integration Testing With NUnit original ↗

8 Oct 2011

Unit Testing File-System Dependent Code original ↗

5 Oct 2011

Your Task Bar Can Hold More Than 7 Windows Open, but Can Your Brain?original ↗

3 Oct 2011

SQL Server Cursors - Avoiding the Duplicate FETCH NEXT original ↗

30 Sept 2011

What’s the Check-In Frequency, Kenneth?original ↗

29 Sept 2011

From C++ to C# – Two Years On original ↗

26 Sept 2011

TODO or TODO Not - There Is No Later original ↗

21 Sept 2011

Copy & Rename (Like Copy & Swap But For File-Systems)original ↗

20 Sept 2011

NTL/Virgin Emails Going Missing original ↗

19 Sept 2011

Every Solution Starts With “FOR /F”original ↗

21 Jul 2011

Recovering From Unknown Exceptions original ↗

7 Jul 2011

Execute Around Method - The Subsystem Boundary Workhorse original ↗

4 Jul 2011

Unit Tests Obscure Dead Code original ↗

29 Jun 2011

User Defined Types in SQL Server original ↗

28 Jun 2011

Out vs Ref For TryXxx Style Methods original ↗

18 May 2011

Testing Drives the Need for Flexible Configuration original ↗

16 May 2011

The Public Interface of a Database original ↗

10 May 2011

A StyleCop/FxCop For Databases original ↗

4 May 2011

PowerShell, Throwing Exceptions & Exit Codes original ↗

3 May 2011

Mock To Test the Outcome, Not the Implementation original ↗

28 Apr 2011

Using Extension Methods to Extend A C# Interface original ↗

27 Apr 2011

You Write Your SQL Unit Tests in SQL?original ↗

22 Apr 2011

Database Enumerations – A Non-Performant Query original ↗

22 Apr 2011

Describe the Problem, Don’t Prescribe the Solution original ↗

8 Apr 2011

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Varargs original ↗

12 Feb 2011

A Not-So-Clever-Now String Implementation original ↗

9 Feb 2011

My First Presentation original ↗

28 Jan 2011

Intriguing SCHTASKS Bug original ↗

10 Jan 2011

2010

Exception Safe By Design original ↗

27 Nov 2010

Reacquainting Myself With Sed & Awk original ↗

23 Nov 2010

My ACCU 2011 Session Proposal - Using xUnit As a Swiss Army Testing Toolkit original ↗

27 Sept 2010

Implementing Constants & Enumerations in a Database original ↗

10 Sept 2010

What’s Exceptional Depends on Context original ↗

8 Sept 2010

IDisposable’s Should Assert In Their Finalizer original ↗

18 Aug 2010

Stored Procedures Are About More Than Just Performance original ↗

9 Aug 2010

Where’s the PowerShell/Python/IYFSLH*?original ↗

27 Jul 2010

Simple Database Build & Deployment With SQLCMD original ↗

19 Jul 2010

Unit Testing Evolution Part I - Structure original ↗

12 Jul 2010

Windows Batch File Template original ↗

28 Jun 2010

Oldwood v4.0 original ↗

28 May 2010

Debug & Release Database Schemas original ↗

23 May 2010

The Dying Art of RTFM original ↗

19 May 2010

Refactoring – Do You Tell Your Boss?original ↗

11 May 2010

My ACCU Conference 2010 Lightning Talk original ↗

8 May 2010

Happy Birthday, Blog original ↗

30 Apr 2010

Object Finalized Whilst Invoking a Method original ↗

9 Apr 2010

Turning Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Incompetence original ↗

7 Apr 2010

Lured Into the foreach + lambda Trap original ↗

1 Apr 2010

Integration Testing with NUnit original ↗

30 Mar 2010

Cleaning up svn:mergeinfo Droppings original ↗

12 Mar 2010

WCF Service Refusing Connections original ↗

8 Mar 2010

xUnit Style Database Unit Testing original ↗

27 Feb 2010

Coders at Work – Jamie Zawinski original ↗

23 Feb 2010

Process Explorer Failed to Display DLLs or Handles original ↗

21 Feb 2010

My [Unit] Testing Epiphany original ↗

13 Feb 2010

WCF Weirdy – NetTcpBinding, EndpointIdentity and Programmatic Configuration original ↗

7 Feb 2010

TFD vs TLD – What’s The Definition of “Later”?original ↗

2 Feb 2010

Company-Wide IRC Style Chat & Messaging original ↗

31 Jan 2010

Why is C++ Getting Left on the Bench?original ↗

28 Jan 2010

Two Book Reviews Published in This Month’s C Vu Magazine original ↗

25 Jan 2010

So Long and Thanks For All the Onions original ↗

21 Jan 2010

2009

From SourceSafe to ClearCase to Subversion original ↗

29 Nov 2009

C# + C++ + C++/CLI – Context Switch Hell original ↗

22 Nov 2009

Adjusting to the C#/.Net Ecosystem original ↗

12 Nov 2009