My Tool List (Monday, October 26, 2009) - One of the more popular thing's Scott Hanselman has done is maintain a tool List, essentially a list of applications and utilities that he's found useful. There are plenty of absolute gems in his list and rather than present my own I'd be very comfortable just pointing you to his... But what fun would that be? None! I also think there are a few more that I can add
Amazon SimpleDB Batched PUTs Usage and Performance (Friday, July 10, 2009) - One of the most important factors in getting optimal performance out of Amazon's SimpleDB is keeping the total number of requests to a minimum and making the most out of the ones you make. At one time this was tricky from a write perspective because only a single item could be updated in a PUT operation. Last spring Amazon eased the pain a little by allowing
Accessing SimpleDB from SSRS (Wednesday, July 22, 2009) - Largely for my own amusement recently I became interested in the idea of accessing Amazon's SimpleDB from SQL Server Reporting Services. After searching around the web for a while I realized the only solution I'd be happy with was to write my own data processing extension for SSRS that can access SimpleDB. For those of you not familiar with SSRS data processing
Home-Brewing a Full-Text Search in Google's AppEngine (Sunday, November 22, 2009) - I've recently deployed a django application on Google's AppEngine. I'm not sure how I've avoided it thus far but seems to fit my needs relatively well. DataStore (AppEngine's data storage engine) really impressed me. The python API feels so much like django's ORM that there was practically zero learning curve for a chap like me. One thing that disappointed
