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Bill was featured with a bi-weekly editorial in Processor magazine for several years. Here's a partial list...

"Data Developments" - SSPI Security Meets Helen Of Troy, December 10, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 50
  Most of the security problems your company will face are from inside the firewall.
 
"Data Developments" - Curing A Plethora Of Performance Problems, November 26, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 48
  One of the perennial problems perpetrated by pedantic programmers is returning far too many rows from a server, processing them, and sending them back to be stored in the database.
   
 
"Data Developments" - When The Customer Is Not Always Right Is Not Always Right, November 12, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 46
  What is a consultant supposed to do when a customer asks for something that won’t help or might actually cripple their business?
   
 
"Data Developments" - Managing The Connection Pool, August 20, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 34
  1. An Overflowing Pool 2. How To Plug The Holes
   
 
"Data Developments" - Is Your Application Vulnerable To SQL Injection Attacks?, July 23, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 30
  It's not uncommon to have developers post questions that include snippets of their code for everyone to see and critique. Unfortunately, all too many of these code snippets are using concatenated SQL.
   
 
"Data Developments" - SQL Express: The New “Free” SQL Server, July 9, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 28
  MSDE is probably the most misunderstood piece of software that Microsoft sells—or gives away, depending on whom you ask.
   
 
"Data Developments" - Meeting Expectations, June 11, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 24
  The key to success (for both consultant and customer) is knowing when to commit to a project, a timeline, a price, and a specification that lays out the ground rules and when to walk away.
   
 
"Data Developments" - Sinking The Pirates, October 29, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 44
  Virtually everything of value that Americans make, create, or innovate is stolen somewhere around the world, and it's time to step in and stop it.
   
 
"XML & Efficiency: An Oxymoron?" April 30, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 18
  For the past couple of years, the ether has been abuzz about XML. For those of you living in a cave on the Pakistani border, XML is the abbreviation for Extensible Markup Language.
   
 
"Focus On The Bottlenecks" May 14, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 20
  In the early ‘80s, I was the architect and software manager for Challenge Systems where my team sometimes had trouble focusing on the “important” tasks.
   
 
"Data Developments" - What’s Going On At Microsoft For Developers?, April 1, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 13
  Microsoft made it abundantly clear that its new SQL Server Express edition is a key element to its overall SQL Server strategy.
   
 
"Data Developments" - Customer Support: A Success Story, March 4, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 9
  Buffalo Technology goes the extra mile in providing good customer service.
   
 
"Data Developments" - Heat, Hardware & Decapitated Mice, February 4, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 5
  You would think that installing a faster Intel processor on an Intel motherboard would be fairly easy. It wasn’t.
   
 
"Data Developments" - A Few New Year’s Predictions, January 7, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 1
  Predictions for 2005 on technology.
   
 
"Data Developments" - How To Drive Customers Away 101, December 24, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 52
  Too many hours spent on the phone with people at support centers somewhere in the hinterlands of India can discourage customers.
   
 
"Data Developments" - The Demise Of The American Software Developer, October 15, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 42
  When jobs go overseas, the skills, knowledge, experience, and technology they build go there, too. So do the taxes they pay.
   
 
"Data Developments" - Virtualizing Your Development System, October 1, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 40
  1. Setting Up Your First VPC 2. Getting The Most Out Of A VPC
   
 
"Data Developments" - Missed Opportunities, September 17, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 38
  1. ADO.NET vs. ADO "Classic" Concurrency 2. Designing For Concurrency
   
 
"Data Developments" - Toy Voting Machines, September 3, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 36
  1. JET Databases Can’t Be Secured 2. The MSDE/SQL Express Alternative 3. Electronic Voting Machines Can Be Secure
   
 
"Data Developments" - Stored Procedures: Bane Or Bonanza?, August 6, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 32
  Shared code and shared SQL logic is still a best practice.
   
 
"Balancing Developer Productivity & Database Security" April 16, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 16
  One of the issues IT and DBAs (database administrators) face is gating access to corporate data without stifling developer productivity.
   
 
""Choosing The “Right” (Insert Object Here")" May 28, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 22
  IT managers, analysts development managers, some developers and other “decision-makers” often drive developers and their staff over the cliff when they choose one hardware, software, or <insert object here> over another.