Massive memory leak in ASP.NET? Turn stuff off you don't need!(explodingcoder.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 9 months, 19 days ago

Are you the kind that leaves lights on in your house when nobody's in the room? Yes, I know it's your energy bill. But, what if the bill were cutting into the ever increasing cost of your Internet bill? Wouldn't you turn the light off? ASP.NET gives you lots of layers of functionality, but not every site is going to need each. read more...

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Painless Caching, Memoization for .NET(explodingcoder.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 2 years, 3 months ago

When searching for .NET discussions of I-don't-even-remember, I somehow came across Dustin Campbell's blog post about automatic memoization with C#. I instantly remembered first reading about this topic in Higher Order Perl, which at the time introduced me to this handy technique using the delegate pattern. After looking over Dustin's code, I liked the simplicity of wrapping any delegate with a single method call. This makes for an academic discussion, but I thought this could be much more practical if we abstracted the concept a bit more. read more...

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Async without the pain(marcgravell.blogspot.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 3 months ago

Simple solution for generic asynchronous operations. "Why can't we wrap this using functional programming?" read more...

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You're Doing It Wrong(codinghorror.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 3 months ago

Templating tends to break down because it forces you to treat code and markup as two different and fundamentally incompatible things. We spend all our time awkwardly switching between markup-land and code-land using escape sequences. They're always fighting each other -- and us. read more...

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ToolMan DHTML Library: Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS(tool-man.org)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 5 months ago

A collection of Direct Manipulation examples that work in modern browsers. Each example is a proof of concept. I'm answering the technical question "Can I do this?" as opposed to the interaction design question "Should I do this?". Most of the JavaScript has been bundled into a reusable package called the ToolMan DHTML Library read more...

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Visual Studio Fail -- How not to debug .NET exception handling(explodingcoder.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 6 months ago

...no matter what try/catch I put in my user code, I couldn't catch this exception with the debugger. Visual Studio would halt execution every time with "Exception unhandled by user code"... read more...

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Stackoverflow Beta: A Review(blog.mdemare.info)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 9 months ago

I’ve been playing with the stackoverflow beta since Saturday. Stackoverflow is a project by Jeff Atwood (of CodingHorror fame), with moral support by Joel Spolsky (JoelOnSoftware). Together they’ve been doing a podcast for almost four months. Stackoverflow launched a private beta last Friday. read more...

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Quantity Always Trumps Quality(codinghorror.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 9 months ago

When it comes to software, the same rule applies. If you aren't building, you aren't learning. Rather than agonizing over whether you're building the right thing, just build it. And if that one doesn't work, keep building until you get one that does. read more...

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Community Coding Contest Website Launched!(communitycodingcontest.org)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 10 months ago

This is the Community Coding Contest, that I originally announced on my blog, as a method to give away 3 MSDN Premium subscriptions that I recieved from Microsoft (because I'm an MVP) to give away as I see fit. This coding contest is the best way I could think of to give them away. I'm hoping to see many people enter, and no project is to big or small. Let the fun begin! read more...

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What is Old is New Again: Functional Programming(explodingcoder.com)

submitted by spoulson(327) 3 years, 11 months ago

One of the greatest ideals of high level programming is the idea of code reuse. In the old days, this was only ever done using functions or subroutines, depending on the language. In later days, this was performed as object oriented design. Every language seems to accomplish these ideals in various ways to accomplish a similar goal. read more...

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