Automatic index rebuild script

To speed up access to the data in SQL Server we use something called indexes, most of you probably know all about it. Indexes are B-tree structures that are extremely efficient for looking up data, consider the fact that looking up row based on a indexed column take the same time when there are 100 rows and when there are 4 millions rows. Because the tree is very compact SQL Server can cache the top levels of the B-tree and sometimes even leaf levels further minimizing disk reads (which really... [ Read full article ]

04 July 2008  0 Comments

Integrated authentication in Firefox

Using Firefox 3 with Scrum Dashboard and Team System Web Access is not a pleasant experience because Integrated Authentication is by default disabled resulting in login dialogs every time you fire up a new browser. You could use the IE Tab plug-in on a Windows box but another alternative is to actually enable Integrated Authentication. How-to: 1. Write about:config in the toolbar in Firefox and hit Enter 2. Write network. negotiate-auth. trusted-uris in the Filter text area 3. Edit this... [ Read full article ]

01 July 2008  0 Comments

Scrum Dashboard v2.2

I uploaded a new release on CodePlex today with some changes implemented the last month, download it here. [ Read full article ]

26 June 2008  0 Comments

Content Generator Preview

Marek Blotny wrote a post some months ago about his Dummy Content Generator which was a great initiative. At the same time I was writing a tool called Content Generator that we are using for our internal testing which did something similar but without the nice XML for configuration. So, with Mareks permission, I incorporated parts of his code into my project and added some extensions and I think it turned out well. I will be publishing the source code as a open source project sometimes after... [ Read full article ]

25 June 2008  0 Comments

Performance testing Windows Server 2008

I have been doing some performance testing on Windows Server 2008, the goal was to see differences in how EPiServer CMS behaves on different operating systems. These tests are performed using EPiServer CMS 5 SP1, the official support for Windows Server 2008 is coming in EPiServer CMS 5 R2 (I'll get back to some performance testing on R2 further on). The tool I used for testing was Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition and the hardware was 2 dual quad-cores with 4GB of RAM, Ghost Solution... [ Read full article ]

11 June 2008  3 Comments