John Billiris
John's ramblings on anything Architecture,ASP.NET, WCF, C#, SQL Server, Media Center ... and others
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Over to WordPress now
Howdy, It’s been unfortunately a long time since I’ve blogged anything over at http://weblogs.asp.net/johnbilliris/default.aspx I’ve moved more heavily into Solution and Integration Architecture around BizTalk 2010/2013 and Azure, and www.asp.net isn’t the right place for that. So, join me over there :-)
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DIFFERENCE is different
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.
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Network Load Balancing Clusters
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, but still I wan't game.
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Don't forget to tune your application
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.
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What code would you have on your wedding cake?
A collegue of mine is getting married soon, and I thought back of all the preparations for my marriage many moons ago.
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Set up a SSL certificate for your development IIS instance
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?
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How to determine if a SQL stored procedure is running : Part I
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.
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SmtpClient and net_io_connectionclosed
I've been working on a console application that needs to send emails to customers as part of a business process.
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How to determine if a SQL job is running
I received a (initially) strange request to determine whether a SQL job is currently running or not.
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Tabs for Office 2003 and 2007
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.