August 2009 Blog Posts
Richard, one of my colleagues at Readify, wrote an interesting blog post about how he learnt the hard way that if you want to hire a software developer you need to check her/his skills by giving her/him a coding exercise to solve. If you don’t do this you are simply asking for trouble. Have a look at Richard’s blog post for more details. When I was looking for a job in Australia and I got in touch with a few companies and some of them didn’t require me to write any code. Those companies were immediately off my...
I’ve just upgraded my blog from Subtext 1.9.5 to Subtext 2.1.2. The upgrade has been smooth and I haven’t had to make any manual changes. I’m really impressed. Keep up good work guys! I can’t wait for Subtext 3.0 which is meant to based on ASP.NET MVC. Now I need to find a better skin for my blog but taking into account my UI skills that might take some time ;).
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If there are enough people then this actually might happen. If you are interested and I’m telling you, you should :) then express that as soon as possible by contacting Simon. You can find an overview of the training here. Tags: SOA, DDD, Training
STM as an idea looks interesting and definitely has a lot of advantages over regular locking. It helps prevent deadlocks, makes easier to compose components that implement some kind of synchronization, helps eliminate nested locks, supports retries and so on. You can find the full list of goodness here. When I found out that STM.NET(based on .NET 4.0) is out my first question was related to its performance. I put together a simple test and I have to say that in most scenarios STM.NET is an overkill. Sure, it’s a research project and it hasn’t been productized which...