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July 2009 - Posts

• Back off posse, we’re ninja’s!

  There is a classic American Western movie cliché where the sheriff, in an attempt to catch an outlaw, calls for the organization of a ‘ posse ’.  By western movie definition, a posse seems to be a band of people that have just stumbled out of the Read More... Posted 29 July 2009 14:24 by simon.munro | 1 Comments Filed under: Delivery, Project Management, Agile, People, TDD

• ‘Pedal a bicycle for five hours’ and other training tips

  A few years ago, after needing seasonal antibiotics for the second season in a row, my family doctor prescribed that I get into better shape.  Not satisfied in partial measures, having enough brains not to run and having a gym phobia, it decided Read More... Posted 22 July 2009 08:53 by simon.munro | 2 Comments Filed under: Hope and Play, London to Paris

• Azure Announces Unimaginative Pricing Model

  We waited a long time for Microsoft to finally announce their Azure pricing as they have on their blog and an unveiling with much fanfare at their partner conference keynote as a type this.  Frankly, after waiting for so long, I expected Microsoft Read More... Posted 14 July 2009 16:25 by simon.munro | 6 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, cloud computing

• Catfax – SQL CLR, WCF and Windows Azure

  In future, more and more solutions will have data that is not stored directly in a SQL database but rather in cloud EAV (Entity Attribute Value) data stores, caches, client storage, document databases and so on.  Usually it is the existing DBA’s Read More... Posted 08 July 2009 20:50 by simon.munro | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Data Access, SQL Server 2008, SQL CLR, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, Database