Today the Design Preview of new versions of ASP.NET happens in London...but I have a prior engagement and can't go...wahhhh!!! If anyone from the ASP.NET design team is reading this - I love travel - and the Residence Inn in Redmond is lovely ;-) Anyway, from…
Further to my earlier bit on Threading, this site has some brilliant (fairly advanced) examples on various things...including a custom Thread Pool
I have recently been having a look at threading in ASP.NET, found this excellent article from June 2003 which is a pretty good introduction to the whole thorny issue. Also found a useful example from the 'always worth a look' C# Corner...here
Found this on the Furrygoat site, this is a truly excellent site on the GoF design patterns (you'll see this alot, it refers to this book - the original book on design patterns). If you're creating applications in any language, I really recommend you get at…
Have a read at this article on implementing the SIngleton pattern in C#. No idea what I'm on about? Well, the Singleton Pattern isn't a knitting method for the lonely, it's one of the most important techniques for ensuring that two people - on the web its'…
Reproduced here for your delictation...from here Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List Roy Osherove suggested that I post a list of the contents of my C:/UTILS folder. Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few…
I love the articles which Joel Spolsky writes, I already linked in an earlier post to an interview he did about social software and forums in particular (I'll dig out the link tomorrow - and the search function is almost ready :-)). Found a link via Scoble and…
I should be asleep...well that was the plan. I have a project to complete tomorrow - well, I'll be doing QA all weekend and bug-hunting etc...but the development will finish tomorrow. We're trying to sort out our development process at the moment at work,…
Just read an entry over on Sara Williams blog regarding CS degrees and developers. I read an essay a few weeks ago by Paul Graham called Hackers & Painters, which basically puts forward the view that developers are not just engineers. I admit that in some…
Feeling a bit unmotivated. I spent the weekend finishing RC2 of this portal application we're working on (stay tuned, I'll be able to tell you more soon...including some code tips!). As a result I'm not really in a coding mood today - I'm very mood driven. So,…