Over the past few months Hotmail users have been made aware of hijacking of user accounts on the free Microsoft email service. Once access is obtained, still by unknown means, the hijackers send spam to the whole address book of the victim. There have also been reports of emails or contacts being deleted, and emails [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Tip: Choose which browser to debug with in Visual Studio
11 Mar , 2010
By default, Visual Studio uses Internet Explorer for debugging. If you’re looking for a way to change that, perhaps to harness the power of developer tools in Firefox or other browsers (or perhaps just because you don’t like IE), it’s pretty easy to do. Right-click your start-up project in Studio and click Browse With… Click [...]
Database Performance Tuning, Part 1 – Keys and Data Types
2 Mar , 2010
Database performance tuning is a pretty strong interest of mine, and I’ve been lucky enough to get to work on some really cool database-intensive projects in my time at Atlantic BT. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m still not an expert on the topic and probably won’t be for some time. But having [...]