A safe file listener that handles duplicate events.(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 3 years ago

I needed a file listener that would raise an event when a file was added to a folder. I wanted to implement a poor's man notification service and part of that functionality was that if notification message were dropped in the folder while the service was off-line then they would be processed as soon as the service was started. This article describes how I did it and how I had to handle the fact that a FileSystemWatcher would raise events on the same file many times. read more...

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Setting ASP.Net Authentication Cookies so they work in sub-domains(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 3 years, 1 month ago

Setting ASP.Net Authentication Cookies so they work in sub-domains and with IE read more...

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A case for the use of methodologies / guidelines / rules / etc.(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 3 years, 3 months ago

Whether you like it or not, people have to realize that methodologies / guidelines / rules are the only way to scale out. The oral tradition only gets you so far. read more...

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Performance of lock vs ReadWriterLockSlim for lazy loading(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 3 years, 3 months ago

This is an article which checks the performance cost of using locks versus ReadWriterLock when doing lazy loading. read more...

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Guidelines on Code reviews(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 3 years, 10 months ago

Guidelines to conduct a good code review. read more...

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Guidelines for effective TFS comments.(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 3 years, 10 months ago

Guidelines for writing effective TFS comments. read more...

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Unit test guidelines Part 1 to 5(philosophil.spaces.live.com)

submitted by philosophil(70) 4 years ago

A multi-part article on how to properly write unit tests. It discusses when unit tests should be used in the application life cycle, what it looks like, what are the different ways to approach unit testing (black box, white box, behavior drivent testing, interaction based testing, etc.) , how to mock, what not to test and finally a list of guidelines which summarize what to do and what not to do. read more...

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