Raymond Lewallen

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• FireFox - The Hungry-Hungry Hippo?

  Firefox! Please! I love you so much, please relenquish your iron grip on my resources, as you are rendering my computer useless. I like to have just one browser open, and sometimes get up to about 10 tabs open in that browser. Its becoming more common... Posted Jan 19 2006, 09:25 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 101 comment(s) Filed under: Generalities, Most Popular

• Database Basics Part Three - Isolation

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Jan 10 2006, 09:01 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Most Popular, Sql Development

• Database Basics Part Two - Normalization

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Jan 04 2006, 11:18 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Most Popular, Sql Development

• Database Basics Part One - The ACID Model

  Author Raymond Lewallen In an effort to provide information for those of you who are newcomers to databases, these Database Basics series of posts are targeted directly at you to help you understand and build better databases. Posted Dec 28 2005, 04:46 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Database Basics, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development

• NHibernate 1.0 has been released

  Yes, it finally made it to 1.0 ! Yay for NHibernate ! NHibernate is one of those object persistence tools I’ve played around with a bit, like Wilson OR Mapper or LLBLGenPro . I’ve used all three here and there on different projects, but haven’t committed... Posted Oct 12 2005, 08:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• A recap of popular and helpful posts for developers

  I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy. Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week. So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed... Posted Aug 24 2005, 11:08 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Extreme Programming, Generalities, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development, TDD

• New INTERSECT and EXCEPT operators in Sql Server 2005 T-SQL

  How to use two new operators in Sql Server 2005 T-Sql Posted Aug 01 2005, 01:46 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Most Popular, Sql Development

• Boxing and Unboxing for Beginners

  Converting value types to reference types and then back to value types again. An overview for beginners to .Net Posted Jul 28 2005, 07:48 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular

• Coupling, Abstractness, Stability - Measuring and Applying Code Metrics

  Formulas for analyzing code metrics and how to apply them. Posted Jul 15 2005, 10:36 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• Software Development Life Cycle Models

  A look into the software life cycle models commonly used. Posted Jul 13 2005, 08:13 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 324 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Extreme Programming, Generalities, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development, TDD

• Information on RAID configurations

  Features of the most commmon RAID configurations. Posted Jun 29 2005, 07:29 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: Hardware, Most Popular

• System.NullReferenceException - Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 3 common causes in VB.Net.

  3 common causes of this runtime exception in VB.Net, 2 of which you can't compile in C#. Posted Jun 23 2005, 09:03 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 138 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• Some managed code analysis tools

  In response to a comment on this post , here are couple of source code analysis tools for managed code: NDepend – Free - NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates design quality metrics. Complexity Analyzer – Costs Money - Automatically... Posted Jun 13 2005, 08:24 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• My Short List of Resources for XP (Extreme Programming), TDD (Test Driven Development), Agile and Refactoring

  This is a short list of resources (websites and books mostly) that I have read/do read/participate in on the topic of Extreme Programming. My list is VERY long and I didn't want to put it all up, so I listed the most relavent items. You might not see... Posted Jun 09 2005, 07:14 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Extreme Programming, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, TDD

• Updated random password or string generator in T-Sql for Sql Server

  Here is an updated version of my random string or password generator for T-Sql, made into a stored procedure with some other modifications. The stored procedure /*************************************************************************** * Created By... Posted May 17 2005, 05:21 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Most Popular, Sql Development