Testing SSL and HTTP Compression in your ASP.NET web sites with IIS Express

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gduthie/archive/2011/05/10/testing-ssl-and-http-compression-in-your-asp-net-web-sites-with-iis-express.aspx

A nice free addon for SQL management studio, SQL Search 1.0

SQL Server developers and DBAs use SQL Search to:

• Find fragments of SQL text within stored procedures, functions, views and more
• Quickly navigate to objects wherever they happen to be on a server
• Find all references to an object 

http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-search/

How to show time cost for one query in T-SQL?

      DECLARE @starttime DATETIME2 = SYSDATETIME(), @alltime datetime2 = sysdatetime();

      DECLARE @finishtime INT;

/* Your query is in here */

      SELECT @finishtime = DATEDIFF(millisecond, @starttime, SYSDATETIME());

      PRINT '(ms): ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, @finishtime)

What do programmers really do?

What do programmers really do?
Programmers are translators of human ideas into the language of computers.

Securing your ASP.NET MVC 3 Application

You cannot use routing or web.config files to secure your MVC application. The only supported way to secure your MVC application is to apply the [Authorize] attribute to each controller and action method (except for the login/register methods). Making security decisions based on the current area is a Very Bad Thing and will open your application to vulnerabilities

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rickandy/archive/2011/05/02/securing-your-asp-net-mvc-3-application.aspx