Month: April 2011

The fastest query is one you never execute. The premise is that one of the slowest parts of starting up an application isn’t starting the application itself, it’s loading the initial application state. This can become a problem when you’re loading many copies of your application on many servers, especially you’re in the cloud and…

At the Connections conference in Orlando, I had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Campbell, host of RunAs Radio, and talk shop.  I love conversations with Richard because he gets to travel and touch all kinds of cool systems, so as a result we end up jumping off-topic all over the place, talking about…

Copy, paste, copy, paste. I just love plagiarizing helping the community. Tom LaRock challenged us to write an eleven word blog post and I couldn’t resist resurrecting an old theme.  John Dunleavy (who plagiarized my posts last year) emailed me a while back to say he’d like to meet me at the DevConnections conference in…