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About Me
- Name: Mitch Wheat
- Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management. Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Free eBook for SQL Server DBAs
As well as making some great software products, RedGate are a great supporter of the developer community. Lately, they have had one or two free ebooks for download, and the latest one is "How to Become an Exceptional DBA" by Brad McGehee. In fact, the zip file contains 2 ebooks, "DBA Best Practices" and "Exceptional DBA".
The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project
If you have ever had to consult Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables you will know what a useful resource it is. Despite its iconic status, its format and layout looks dated and its searchability could be better.
The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions project is an ongoing effort to perform a complete rewrite of this work, updated for current needs. This resource will be published in book form as the Handbook of Mathematical Functions as well as a free online Digital Library.
The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions project is an ongoing effort to perform a complete rewrite of this work, updated for current needs. This resource will be published in book form as the Handbook of Mathematical Functions as well as a free online Digital Library.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Disable Visual Studio Add-ins from Loading
I expect most people know this already, and I'm sure in the distant past I've been shown it, but...
If you are ever in the situation where you would like to start up Visual Studio with any add-ins temporarily disabled, hold down the left-shift key while Visual Studio starts.
If you are ever in the situation where you would like to start up Visual Studio with any add-ins temporarily disabled, hold down the left-shift key while Visual Studio starts.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Reminder: Perth .NET User Group Meeting: Thurs July 10th
Don't forget, if you're in Perth this Thursday, join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, July 10th to hear Bill Chesnut talk about Hands on WCF: looking at ways to use WCF from .Net, ASP and BizTalk.
TOPIC: Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE: Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.
TOPIC: Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE: Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.
Code Listings for Grant Fritchey's free ebook
If you are looking for the code listings in Grant Fritchey's free ebook on the 'Art of High Performance SQL Code, you can find them here. Thanks to the helpful folks at redgate for the link.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Free ebook: 'Art of High Performance SQL Code'
redgate are offering Grant Fritchey's ebook on the 'Art of High Performance SQL Code' as a free download. "Over 200 pages of SQL code performance magic ". Download here.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Perth .NET User Group Meeting: Thurs July 10th
If you are in Perth this Thursday, join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, July 10th to hear Bill Chesnut talk about Hands on WCF: looking at ways to use WCF from .Net, ASP and BizTalk. These are hot topics and Bill is well placed to demonstrate what can be achieved with these Microsoft technologies.
TOPIC: Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE: Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.
Bill Chesnut is the Principal Consultant at Stargate Global Consulting. He’s a BizTalk Server MVP, been involved with .Net since before the release of V1, and involved in the IT world since 1983. His current focus is primarily on BizTalk, WF & WCF.
TOPIC: Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE: Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.
Bill Chesnut is the Principal Consultant at Stargate Global Consulting. He’s a BizTalk Server MVP, been involved with .Net since before the release of V1, and involved in the IT world since 1983. His current focus is primarily on BizTalk, WF & WCF.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Static Code Analyzer for SQL Injection
Microsoft has released a static code analysis tool called the Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection tool. It will check for SQL injection vulnerabilities in active server pages (ASP) code.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Reminder: Thurs 3rd July, 2008 Community Event
If you are in Perth this Thursday, July 3rd, join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice for a selection of short talks on topics relating to the 2008 launch of Visual Studio and the .NET framework. Each talk will be approximately 10 - 15 minutes long with questions between topics. More details here.
Alistair Waddell: LINQ to SQL
Dave Gardner: New Web development features in Visual Studio 2008
Mike Minutillo: New C# 3.0 language features
Piers Williams: Continuous Integration with Team Build
Mitch Denny: Building a Testable Workflow
Alistair Waddell: LINQ to SQL
Dave Gardner: New Web development features in Visual Studio 2008
Mike Minutillo: New C# 3.0 language features
Piers Williams: Continuous Integration with Team Build
Mitch Denny: Building a Testable Workflow
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MSN, Email: mitch døt wheat at gmail.com
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