Ever run into a situation where you are an administrator on a machine, but your account is not an administrator in SQL server? Read below for my situation and the solution I found to fix it! The project I’m on currently has a shared virtual machine that is given to new developers when they come [...]
First Computer Memories – When I Got Started… Remember when you sat down in front of your first personal computer? I vaguely remember sitting there as a pissed off eight year old in 1991, starring at a DOS prompt. I was trying to play a 16-bit race car game and it kept complaining about HIMEM [...]
One of the first tips in The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is about broken windows. The theory is that if you leave a broken window in a house, you’re less inclined to fix anything else and eventually the house is abandoned or otherwise abused. This of course relates originally to software development – [...]
The other day in Part I of this series I said I was going to write up some more articles about automating code review tools in your build process. Today I spent some time looking over CAT.NET and figuring out how it fits into my build process. CAT.NET is a static code analysis tools that [...]
The Connected Information Security Group blog at Microsoft recently published a couple of articles (part 1, part 2) about a tool recently released called CAT.NET. This is a static code analysis tool which reads a compiled programs code and looks for security problems such as null pointers, null references, and other problems specific to interpreted [...]
