A technical critique of SQL Server 2019's Master Data Services (MDS) database, highlighting poor default configurations like outdated compatibility levels and page verification settings.
Explains how to register a service both as an interface and as its concrete type in ASP.NET Core's built-in dependency injection container.
A guide to using Azure Functions with Java, covering the v2 runtime, local development, and the Java worker for serverless applications.
An update on the svy2lme R package for fitting linear mixed models with complex survey data, including a comparison with Stata.
SQL Server 2019's Master Data Services (MDS) finally replaces the Silverlight-based web interface with a modern, browser-agnostic HTML front-end.
A wish list for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3, requesting features like console integration and more granular OneDrive backup controls.
A tutorial on creating an animated world population cartogram from 1800 to 2100 using R, open data, and open-source geospatial libraries.
Explores using attribution text in PowerShell's BurntToast module for Windows toast notifications, detailing current limitations and workarounds.
Explores SQL Server 2019's improved DBCC CLONEDATABASE command for automatically extracting Columnstore Index statistics into a cloned database.
A developer's post-mortem analysis of their unfinished pet project, EmpGrid, a web app for tracking employee online presences, built with .NET Core.
A developer recounts attending XDC 2018 with the wlroots team, sharing insights on graphics drivers, testing, and community interactions.
A developer compares using RecUp for voice memos with iOS 12's new Siri shortcut for the native Voice Memos app, focusing on workflow efficiency.
Explores typographic tempo experiments with Adobe, adjusting whitespace dynamically and discussing smart defaults for typesetting.
A tutorial replicating a Python experiment on creating a biased AI sentiment classifier, but using R, GloVe embeddings, and glmnet for logistic regression.
Explores Microsoft's new Columnstore compression estimation in SQL Server 2019, comparing it to a custom system stored procedure.
A talk exploring strategies for implementing rate limiting and request throttling in web applications to handle user traffic and prevent abuse.
A technical guide on optimizing Docker multi-stage builds for ASP.NET Core to reduce build times by caching dependency restoration.
Explains a better approach for asynchronous initialization in ASP.NET Core apps, moving it from middleware to the Program.Main method.
A developer's summary of recent and upcoming technical projects, including blog series on Dapper.NET, Clojure, .NET Core, and Angular with Auth0.
A technical guide on deploying Red Hat OpenShift, an enterprise Kubernetes platform, on Microsoft Azure using ARM templates and Ansible.
