January 2008 Blog Posts
A few days ago I found an article about new AccuRev plugin for VS 2005 and by the way I decided to describe the pain I've experienced using AccuRev. In general I love AccuRev or to be more precise I love its back-end. The whole AccuRev architecture is based on streams that are structured as a tree. Every stream except the root has a single parent stream and 0 or many child streams. Click at the image to see more details. A child stream inherits content from its parent which makes branching/merging a non-issue. Let's say you have...
Two guys(Tom and Adam) are building a data centre in Cork. To be honest I was surprised that Cork needs a data centre but apparently there is none outside of Dublin and some companies need to use 2 data centres that are at least 30 miles far from each other. The next thing that was kind of new to me is that you can build such a facility in a completely transparent way that your customers know exactly what they pay for. And the last but the least surprise was that Irish weather plus a bit of innovative thinking can...
Rico Mariani changed his position a few months ago but he still manages to provide his Performance Quizzes from time to time. Today he explains the difference between LINQ queries and compiled LINQ queries. It's obvious that one should cache as much as possible because in most cases is better to pay a high price once then a slightly reduced one many times. But the interesting part of the post is the way how Microsoft came up with their current implementation of compiled LINQ queries. Nearly every good performance solution is a matter of realizing that being very generic doesn't...
It looks like there will not be a launch event of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Dublin. The registration page does not list Ireland and I suppose that this years is someone else turn. Tags: Visual Studio, Windows Server, SQL Server