Testing asynchonous methods (James World)

Here is the link to Jon Skeet's time machine:

TimeMachine for unit testing

I mentioned using Rx to test async methods. This blog post talks about how async testing is done in Rx:

Testing Rx Queries using Virtual Time testing

This SO answer I wrote talks about the challenges of unifying Rx and TPL async testing, and provides some useful code for combining the two:

TPL + Rx Testing

SQL Maintenance Jobs

sp_Blitz® – Free SQL Server Health Check Script DaveM - this apparently is very good, but needs high privilege, adding objects to the db in order to work. Be careful.

Maintenance links I was talking about are: (flip me an email if you want to chat to the guys that wrote these pages) http://www.qnrl.com/sql_links

http://www.brentozar.com/training-videos-online/make-sql-server-apps-go-faster/

http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2013/04/why-most-people-dont-follow-best-practices/

Conferences

http://www.dddsouthwest.com/ - 25th April 2015

Recruitment

TUI Travel are looking for a .NET MVC developer to work a new reservation system for our education businesses, please contact ian.thomas@tuidev.com for more info (no agencies).