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DIFFERENCE is different by johnbilliris

My latest gig involves some quite heavy text-searching in SQL Server 2008 R2, and I was investigating into various approaches for phonetic searching in the case of misspellings of search phrases. An approach that came to mind was the good olde SOUNDEX...
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Network Load Balancing Clusters by johnbilliris

The Windows family of operating systems (not so recently) introduced Network Load Balancing (NLB), but I wasn't game enough to try them in a production environment. Even seven years ago, Rick Strahl of west-wind wrote a top article on the very same topic...
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Don't forget to tune your application by johnbilliris

Having recently completed a large website implementation for a well respected not-for-profit organisation, I learnt several lessons and want share some of my experiences. While it seems obvious that we should be ensuring our code is optimised (right?...
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What code would you have on your wedding cake? by johnbilliris

A collegue of mine is getting married soon, and I thought back of all the preparations for my marriage many moons ago. My collegue was a coder in his earlier days, so it lead me to think about a silly idea - what code would he have on his wedding cake...
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Set up a SSL certificate for your development IIS instance by johnbilliris

Ever needed to capture sensitive information in your web app? If so, then you'd be planning your production environment for a SSL certificate. But what about your dev or test environments? There's a very easy way of achieving this; the IIS6 resource kit...
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How to determine if a SQL stored procedure is running : Part I by johnbilliris

Continuing from my previous post on How to determine if a SQL job is running , I was asked to determine if a certain stored procedure was currently running. Well, here it gets quite tricky as this has to be solved based on the answer to the following...
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SmtpClient and net_io_connectionclosed by johnbilliris

I've been working on a console application that needs to send emails to customers as part of a business process. After only 5 emails being sent, the sixth email caused the following exception .... "Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed...
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How to determine if a SQL job is running by johnbilliris

I received a (initially) strange request to determine whether a SQL job is currently running or not. And researching it was useful, but it didn't quite tie all together for me. So, I'm posting this T-SQL snippet (which can be wrapped up into a stored...
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Tabs for Office 2003 and 2007 by johnbilliris

If you write any documents (yes, they are important!) in Microsoft Office, then you'd know that the Office apps are SDI (single document interface) applications. Simply put, it means that an instance of Word will appear for each Word document you've got...
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Telerik and Medium Trust by johnbilliris

Continuing on with my medium trust adventure, the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX UI web controls have their own little quirk to look for. Your code-behind pages should inherit from Telerik.Web.UI.RadAjaxPage instead of the standard System.Web.UI.Page. It is documented...
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