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I saw this great article over at codeproject: http://www.codeproject.com/gen/design/theWrongObject.asp . Here is one part I found to be particularly on point: " Now, the diagram above is a bit silly, but I think it's also illustrative of the...
I was surfing around today looking for information on .NET vs J2EE performance when I came across this site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx Summary from that site: "This application is an end-to-end sample application...
As many of my colleagues know, I am not a really big fan of XML. I think it's bloated. I think it's not needed. I don't think it accomplishes much if anything that couldn't be done before just by sending text delimited in a different way...
Recently, I was looking for some articles on treatment of nulls in databases. This was a surfing thread that actually originated as my attempt to find some already done benchmarks on coalesce(col,'') != '' vs. col is not null for performance...
I'm a big fan of Fabian Pascal. Here are 10 Articles/Pages/Responses that I like the best. =P You can find tons more from these though. They are almost all pure gold. =) On Grinding Water: Reply to St. Laurent NO THEORY, NO RELATIONAL, NO THINKING...
since i've had it in mind to write this for *so* long, i will at least write something, and maybe someday i'll come back and clean it up. =P i was talking to a friend of mine quite some time back about what i call the 'triangle theory'...
Ah. Garbage Collection... how I love and hate thee. =P I think one sad thing about programming in .net is that it seems many developers don't know or care anything about garbage collection and memory management. You used to *have* to know about it...
ha! i got ya! you thought this was a sql post, but it's not =P jeff atwood of codinghorror.com fame has a great article posted about his favorite top 10 lists. the top 6 ones to be exact. here is the brief version with a link to each of them. Jerry Weinberg...
Dave sent me the following link to examine. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479086.aspx Take a moment to peruse it and see what you think. We currently use this in some apps and I’ve seen this strategy in place in the past as well. In general...
reposted from here for quite a few years now, i've had this idea of a virtual cpu. it all started back in... oh i guess 98 or 99 and my fascination with the beowolf architecture. i convinced a friend of mine to help me persuade the company we worked for...