Articles by James Horan

Slaying the Documentation Dragon

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Frequently, documentation gets lip service and not much else. Everyone who develops software will tell you how important good code commenting is to the maintainability of applications. But in the same breath they will tell you that they are rarely given the time to properly document their code.

Get the Most Out of .NET

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Here are some tips on how to improve the performance of your .NET applications. In the old Visual Basic 6 world, string manipulation was a performance issue that many developers spent time dealing with.

Automatically Generate SQL Server Triggers with ADO.NET and C#

Wed, 28 May 2003 00:00:00 EDT

In this day and age of cost-cutting layoffs and job insecurity, you've probably found yourself in some challenging situations. Recently, I found myself in the position of being the sole developer of a .NET application using SQL Server 2000. So I did my best to design a solid database using my limited knowledge of database design. It was around that time that I finally started to appreciate a good DBA!