Stephen A. Fuqua (saf)

a Bahá'í, software engineer, and nature lover in Austin, Texas, USA

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10 Aug 2023 Thoughts on Responsible Data Use
21 Jan 2022 Running Python With Graphics Support in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
08 Nov 2021 Preparing for PowerShell Core and .NET Development on Ubuntu on Windows
24 Jun 2021 Primer on Command Line Operations for Software Development
21 May 2021 Infrastructure as Code for Continuous Integration
29 Dec 2020 Constructing Just Algorithms
06 Dec 2020 In Pursuit of Data and Algorithmic Equity
18 Aug 2020 What's in a Name? Attitude.
08 Aug 2020 Template Inheritance with TeamCity Kotlin
24 Jun 2020 Call for Community Expertise and Input – Ed-Fi in Containers!
24 May 2020 Points on Bugs and Spikes
22 Mar 2020 Splitting TeamCity Kotlin Into Multiple Files
21 Mar 2020 Getting Started with Infrastructure as Code in TeamCity
14 Feb 2020 The Analytics Middle Tier Grows Up
30 Nov 2018 Geeks in Vegas – Learning About Amazon Web Services
07 Aug 2018 From Diagrams and Definitions: Solving the Analytics Reporting Gap
10 Mar 2018 Packer Tips and Lessons Learned
10 Dec 2016 API Calls from Postman Work, But Not From the Browsers
21 Feb 2016 FlightNode API Application Architecture
03 Feb 2016 FlightNode Beta 2 User Stories
16 Jan 2016 FlightNode Git Repository Consolidation
12 Jan 2016 FlightNode Beta 1 Uses Cases
06 Jan 2016 FlightNode Logging Mechanism
26 Oct 2015 Running FlightNode Locally
24 Oct 2015 Git Tutorials, Workflow, and GUI
04 Oct 2015 FlightNode Authentication and Authorization
24 Sep 2015 Why Create a Platform for Avian Conservation Monitoring?
20 Sep 2015 FlightNode: A Platform for Avian Conservation Monitoring
18 Feb 2015 Project T: Getting Started With Continuous Delivery, part 1
10 Feb 2015 Performance Test Harness
29 Jan 2015 Studying Source Code
21 Jan 2015 Management 3.0: Knowledge and Diversity
12 Jan 2015 Mini E-mail Campaign With Node.js
13 Oct 2014 Node.js, Web API, and RabbitMQ. Part 4
11 Oct 2014 Node.js, Web API, and RabbitMQ. Part 3
07 Sep 2014 Server Side Push Notifications With SignalR
03 Aug 2014 Node.js, Web API, and RabbitMQ. Part 2
29 Jul 2014 Node.js, Web API, and RabbitMQ. Part 1
31 May 2014 Using QUnit and SinonJS for JavaScript Testing
02 Feb 2014 Notes on WCF in Business Applications, Part 1: Server Side
15 Dec 2013 A Single-Screen Workflow Application in WPF
25 Nov 2013 Be Kind
26 Jul 2013 Be Coherent
13 Jul 2013 Be Agile
09 Jul 2013 Be Test-Driven
07 Jun 2013 Active Directory and WCF Configuration Woes Resolved
29 May 2013 From Ruby to Gherkin: Building Automated System Tests, pt 2
20 May 2013 Agile Introverts
27 Feb 2013 Start Stop Continue Stickies
11 Oct 2012 C# + IronRuby: Building Automated System Tests, pt 1
07 Sep 2012 Using Custom Types in Project Settings
12 Jul 2012 Manipulating Table Rows with jQuery
28 Jun 2012 Some Tips for Use of DataAnnotations in .Net
13 May 2012 Review: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided By Tests
19 Apr 2012 Moles: No Longer Fit for Unit Tests
13 Apr 2012 Unit vs. Integration Tests When Querying Nullable Columns
04 Apr 2012 Using Windows CNAMEs to Reduce Server Confusion
30 Mar 2012 Test Naming Convention
18 Mar 2012 SSIS Deployment Headache
11 Mar 2012 Entity Framework Connection Strings
16 Feb 2012 A Recipe for Setting Up Automated Test Projects
08 Jan 2012 Mythical Man-Month: Code Reuse and Discoverability
18 Dec 2011 Notes on Configuring CruiseControl.Net
15 Dec 2011 Reggie - Regular Expression Generation/Testing Tool
11 Dec 2011 Mythical Man-Month: Planning for Change
26 Nov 2011 The Mythical Man-Month: Wiki and Customer Service
20 Nov 2011 The Mythical Man-Month: Conceptual Integrity
13 Nov 2011 Rediscovering C++ / Performing SQL Bulk Copy Operations
10 Nov 2011 Review and Reflection on "The Mythical Man-Month" by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
13 Oct 2011 Design Updates and Fresh Content
26 Feb 2011 Protecting Against SQL Injection in Dynamic SQL Statements
18 Jan 2011 Explicit Column Mappings for SqlBulkCopy
18 Dec 2010 Review: Fundamental Modeling Concepts: Effective Communication of IT Systems
12 Nov 2010 What about this "agile" thing?
19 Aug 2010 What about uint?
14 Aug 2010 Diagnosing Production Problems: Zeroth Law
08 Aug 2010 DbMail - A use for global temp tables in SQL
11 Jun 2010 Diagnosing Production Problems: First Law
19 May 2010 Moles Free Download Without Pex
19 May 2010 Change HostType["Pex"] to HostType["Moles"]
09 May 2010 Why did they remove Promote Local Variable refactor?
08 May 2010 AccuRev - Review and Practices
02 Apr 2010 How to assign namespace and action to FaultContract in ServiceContract Interface (Web Service Software Factory)?
08 Mar 2010 T-SQL Cursor Performance Optimization
10 Feb 2010 Exploring .Net Code with Pex
18 Jan 2010 C# Extension Methods for IDataReader
16 Oct 2009 Bonjour is Evil
23 Sep 2009 SSIS Crashes When Editing OLE DB Source
23 Sep 2009 Securely Accessing Network Resources in an ASP.Net Web Service
03 Sep 2009 TDD - Scenario for Red, Green, Refactor
26 Aug 2009 Encryption, Views, and Stand-Alone Stored Procedures in the Entity Framework
29 Jun 2009 Closing A Cursor in SQL Catch
20 Jun 2009 Think For One ... Second
28 May 2009 Unit Testing Functions That Call Microsoft Enterprise Logging
19 Apr 2009 Sub classing for automated testing
03 Apr 2009 Automatic Properties in C# 3.0
04 Mar 2009 Nice technique for modifying a subset of a List
16 Feb 2009 Curly's Law and Questions for the Team
05 Feb 2009 Unit Testing - Code Coverage and Separation of Layers
12 Jan 2009 The value of using braces to avoid code defects
25 Dec 2008 Diagnosing an Obnoxious Reporting Timeout Problem
20 Nov 2008 String.IsNullOrEmpty - performance considerations, bugs
17 Nov 2008 Starting Out with Service Broker
06 Oct 2008 (SQL) Blocking Giving You the Blues?
20 Sep 2008 SSIS - 32 Bit ForEach File Enumerator Was Not Registered
11 Sep 2008 Evaluating SOA for Enterprise Architecture
23 Aug 2008 Configuring Apache (Wamp) With Additional Ports
18 Aug 2008 RS and XSLT, pt3.3: Using XSLT for Custom Reporting Services Output
18 Aug 2008 RS and XSLT, pt3.2: Using XSLT for Custom Reporting Services Output
17 Aug 2008 Traceability
08 Jul 2008 C#: The Dangers of Foreach
16 Jun 2008 MSSQL 2005: Indexed Views
24 May 2008 Identifying Highly Fragmented (and important) Indexes
01 May 2008 SSIS: Access Is Denied from SQL Agent
28 Apr 2008 Updating the GUI Before a Method Completes
24 Mar 2008 Sample Code for Using the XML Datatype in SQL Server 2005
04 Mar 2008 Summary of Useful Features in SQL Server 2008
28 Feb 2008 RS and XSLT, pt3.1: Using XSLT for Custom Reporting Services Output
22 Feb 2008 RS and XSLT, pt2: Deploying XSLT File
22 Feb 2008 RS and XSLT, pt1: Applying a Basic Transformation
13 Feb 2008 SSIS: Suddenly Can't Write to Buffer
06 Feb 2008 Warning About User Defined Functions in SQL Queries
29 Jan 2008 SSIS: Updating Variables From Resultset Data
17 Jan 2008 Validating XML Via Embedded XSD Schema
11 Jan 2008 Viewing Embedded Images in HTML E-mail (Base64)
31 Dec 2007 NUnit Ignores App.Config
13 Dec 2007 Reusing Code in SSIS
07 Dec 2007 Threading and Waiting with Delegates
06 Dec 2007 Your Default Database Is Offline - How Do You Login?
23 Oct 2007 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
11 Oct 2007 Sanitize Your Database Inputs!
02 Oct 2007 Passing Objects Does Not Require 'ref'
28 Sep 2007 Do not trust the generic List!
21 Sep 2007 Performance #7: An (unsafe) Dead End
18 Aug 2007 Ignoring SSIS Data Conversion Failures
08 Aug 2007 AJAX RESPONSE Parsing Exception
23 Jul 2007 Performance #6: Reading Directly Into the Parser
19 Jul 2007 Performance #5: File Buffering
18 Jul 2007 Threading Links
18 Jul 2007 Visual Studio Says: "Failed to create component"
14 Jul 2007 Performance #4: Consolidate Object Creation from Database
11 Jul 2007 Microsoft says: use Netscape
09 Jul 2007 Rethrowing Exceptions Is a Dangerous Business
07 Jul 2007 Collection Performance Comparisons
06 Jul 2007 Performance #3: CLR Profiler
30 Jun 2007 Performance #1 and #2: Clean Client / Server Interaction
27 Jun 2007 Replacing Ad Hoc Query Text When Fields Change
26 Jun 2007 An Exercise in Performance Tuning in C#.Net
23 Jun 2007 Granting Execute Permission to All Stored Procedures
22 Jun 2007 Server 'myserver' is not configured for RPC
22 Jun 2007 Running Both .Net 1.1 and 2.0 in Windows 2003 Server 64 Bit Edition
21 Jun 2007 Image Conversion Made Easy in .Net
30 May 2007 Autoscrolling in the DataGridView
10 Jun 2005 Intel + Apple = Microsoft Killer?
26 May 2005 2^14
16 Sep 2004 Cold Fusion and Alternative Energy
28 Aug 2004 The Present Future
05 Aug 2004 WindowsXP Service Pack 2 Warning
18 Dec 2003 Fork Problem with Cygwin
13 Nov 2003 Securing and Optimizing Linux, pt. 1: Services
12 Nov 2003 Grad School and The Linux Guru
10 Nov 2003 Configuring RP-PPPOE in Red Hat Linux 9