Effective Bench Warming

programming

One of the benefits (or detriments, depending on your perspective) of being a consultant is that there is occasionally some down-time in between projects.  Even though we typically have more work than available consultants, the logistics of coordinating our available resources with client schedules can lead to brief breaks while the next client is preparing…

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VS 2012 Publishing Changes

asp

If your ASP.NET web development team does not have an automated deployment process in-place, the Visual Studio publish feature can be a great way to quickly deploy or update a web project.    In addition, the web.config transform functionality provides a mechanism for automatically replacing web.config settings (such as database connection strings, permissions, etc.) for different…

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