by Nate Lowry | Jan 9, 2013 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
When we develop for Windows, we use a debugger. So why does so much of our web development follow the code refresh ”Did it work?” progression? All modern web browsers have some sort of web development tools. These can be used to check your CSS, manually manipulate...
by Branden Barber | Oct 18, 2012 | Software Engineering
The Beehive team recently had the opportunity to improve the quality of its reporting. We came to the conclusion that our current implementation too slow, difficult to keep configured, and too difficult to maintain. Our original implementation used SQL Server...
by Nate Lowry | Jul 31, 2012 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Experience is always a great teacher. And if I can learn something through experience I like to share it, especially if I can save others any amount of hassle. Case in point: our recent experience with upgrading to Microsoft SQL 2012 and how it affected our projects...
by Adam Miller | Sep 29, 2011 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
Have you ever wondered if your custom data access code is any more efficient than simply loading a DataTable? Not that I’d recommend using DataTables except for certain situations, but Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate makes it easy to load test your data access...
by Ben Origas | Sep 22, 2011 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
When manually writing Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) (that is, not using the T4 template mechanism), you’ll be left with not only replicating the structure of the table itself in the object layout, but also any objects associated with said structure (foreign keys). As...
