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Devops at Adzerk

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:46:32 GMT

From our sister company, Adzerk, James Jeffers speaks about how the company has designed it's software process to get around the dev/production bottleneck inherent in most companies.

Stock Market Technical Analysis

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:07:21 GMT

A terrific example of how to use the .Net framework in an intensive financial application.

The three pillars of unit tests: A helpful guide for beginners

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:03:57 GMT

If you're new to TDD, then this short but sweet article by Pawel Olesiejuk is just what the doctor ordered. It covers the three pillars of test-driven development, which should push anyone just learning TDD in the right direction.

C#/.NET Toolbox: Creating a "Safer" Task Dispose()

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:03:09 GMT

So recently, I've been moving some older utility classes logic over to use the excellent .NET Task Parallel Library (TPL). This library contains, at it's core, a class called Task which allows parallel programming without the need of working directly with threads. During this process, I wrote a few extension methods I found to be useful in dealing with tasks in an easier manner, and thought I'd share them in a few posts. Today's will discuss an extension method to make disposing a task a little bit "safer".

Avoiding Race Conditions with a BackgroundWorker

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:06:10 GMT

What is a race condition you say? Well, simply put, it's when two or more threads race to an event or line of code. Sometimes one thread will win the race, and sometimes the other thread will. What this comes down to is that this inconsistent behavior can cause some strange and unexpected results.

Obfuscating and Protecting an Application

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:43:10 GMT

An introduction to why obfuscating .NET applications is important, and how they can be protected using SmartAssembly.

C# 5 PropertyChanged - No more magic strings!

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:30:01 GMT

Changes in C# 5 mean no more NotifyPropertyChanged("SomeVariable"), which is a common source of bugs. It also means we no longer have to suffer the performance degradation associated with using workarounds such as lambda's just for the sake of compile-time checking. From here on out, the compiler does the work for us.

A Review of Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:01:17 GMT

This article is a reveiew of the book "Beginning C# Object-oriented Programming". What makes a good programming book for beginners? One that teaches them the to copy and paste code or one that makes them think for themselves?

New book: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:01:17 GMT

Now available: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Step by Step. Developers can no longer rely on clock rate advances to improve the speed of software. Instead, developers need to focus on how to identify the independent portions of their code, and program them to run simultaneously, in parallel, so they can take advantage of the new multi-core architecture. Not only does parallel programming require a change in code, it also requires a change in the way developers think about code.

Analyze your Web Server Data with LogParser and Log Parser Lizard GUI

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:03:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman shows us how to get the most out of our log data using LogParser and the Log Parser Lizard GUI project.

The negative view on assembly references in the .Net community

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:03:01 GMT

Dru Sellers starts an interesting discussion into why many people in the .Net community are opposed to having many assembly references in their projects. It seems counter-intuitive that this would be the case with the sky-rocketing popularity of using open source projects in .Net (and the ease of doing so with NuGet). What are your two cents?

The disadvantages of pair programming

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:03:25 GMT

Mark Needham discusses the disadvantages involved with 100% pair programming, showing us the other side of the pair programming coin.

Speech recognition in HTML5

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:03:25 GMT

Robin Rizvi shows us how to enable speech recognition on the web using HTML5 and the Google Speech API.

hOOt - A new full text search engine for .Net

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:03:25 GMT

hOOt is a extremely small size and fast embedded full text search engine for .net built from scratch. It was created in response to concern from the community over the lack of maintenance on the .Net Lucene port. This article will introduce you to using hOOt and explain what's going on under the hood.

Exceptions and Parallel Loops

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:08:17 GMT

The sixth part of the Parallel Programming in .NET tutorial is the last instalment that examines the parallel loops. This article discusses how exceptions are thrown by code within a parallel loop and how they can be handled.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Routing Admin/User Views

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:22:16 GMT

Adding routing to a ASP.NET Dynamic Data site to accommodate User and Admin Views.

Tail recursion in C#

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:40:16 GMT

This article briefly explains what tail recursion is, and explores various ways to implement it in C#.

C# - Exception Performance

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:25:17 GMT

In any language exceptions are great. They make the problem of handling error's a lot easyier since you don't need to check the values that are being returned from functions which saves in writting lots of code. It also make the code structure better as it clumps the error handling code into a single place which can deal with multiple errors when used correctly.

Getting Started with the F# PowerPack - Part 4

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:09:45 GMT

This post briefly talks about the following features provided by the F# PowerPack: Lexing, Parsing, SI (Metric) Units of Measure, Physical Constants, and Native Array.

Two main advantages of using IIS over self-hosting

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:35:17 GMT

Two main advantages of using IIS over self-hosting..

Data Access in Fail Tracker-Row-Level Security with LINQ to NHibernate

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:30:52 GMT

It's quite easy to implement row-level security using LINQ to NHibernate. See how you can do this by combining the Repository and Decorator patterns in this post.

C++ and Beyond 2011

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:23:17 GMT

In this podcast, we meet Sean Gibb, Director of Software at Rad3 Communications. He's an expert C++ developer (and human template debugger, it turns out ).

Creating a quick Todo listing app on Windows using IIS7, Node.js and M

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:33:17 GMT

Node.js is often used for building high performing web applications. This post explains step by step instructions how to setup Node.js and Mongodb to create a simple Todo listing application.

Unit Testing a jQuery Plugin with CoffeeScript and Pavlov

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:33:17 GMT

There seems to be few examples of writing unit tests/specs in CoffeeScript on the web. This post, shows a very simple jQuery plugin with Pavlov specs.

HTML5 Forms with ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:17:43 GMT

This post discusses the specifics around using new input types (email, tel, number, date, etc.), new attributes (autofocus, placeholder, etc.) and new form validation goodies (required, pattern, formnovalidate, etc.) with ASP.NET MVC.