Do you know where your data is? If you've been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it's in a database. It would seem silly to put data, especially frequently changing data, into code. How about those business rules? Business rule engines haven't been around as long...

It's old news that the Visual Studio Express Editions are out, and free for a year. You, with your fancy MSDN subscription, probably looked right over this good bit of news. I don't know how many times I've needed VS while away from my computer, but didn't have the time to download the 3+ gig image and...

I've been using SpamArrest for about ten months and I'm still "lovin' it"[1]. I've written about my happiness a couple other times , and it keeps getting better. They've processed 32,080 emails and only three spam (out of 10,934) have made it to my inbox. Not too shabby. Giddiness aside, the latest cause...

Jason Alexander alerts us that Vault 2.0 is out and cheaper. What's really great is that it comes with a free single-user license! The $50 single-user license was great (thanks for that, BTW), but this is even better. Everyone should use source control, even at home. Now you have no reason not to.

The FxCop Team Blog has posted a detailed list of features in the next version of FxCop, which promises to be a significant upgrade. Check out the post for more information. No more locks on assemblies or pdbs Ability to resolve missing dependencies Ability to analyze just about anything running just...

For the first time, Microsoft products made their way onto some of Winter's "All Environments" TopTen lists, which include Unix and mainframe systems. A massive SQL Server 2000 production database run by Verizon Communications placed sixth for overall OLTP database size and third for largest number of...

..goes to Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart , hands down the best overview I've seen. If reading these posts don't make you tingly all over, you're in the wrong business. Excellent job, chaps! News from the PDC: Longhorn Has Put a Hit Out On... (Day 1) Longhorn Whacks Yet Another Technology...

Pros: Looks cool, like the brushed metal OS X theme. Interestingly, web pages in its built-in browser use OSX controls. Search is very quick. Listening to song samples is also very quick; starts almost immediately. Apple's home page says “Hell froze over. Introducing iTunes for Windows. The best...

Do you know where your data is? If you've been involved with software at any point in the past two decades, chances are it's in a database. It would seem silly to put data, especially frequently changing data, into code. How about those business rules? Business rule engines haven't been around as long...

It's old news that the Visual Studio Express Editions are out, and free for a year. You, with your fancy MSDN subscription, probably looked right over this good bit of news. I don't know how many times I've needed VS while away from my computer, but didn't have the time to download the 3+ gig image and...