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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:42 AM

Trivia: How does CLR create an OutOfMemoryException

  When the system goes out of memory a OutOfMemoryException is thrown. Similarly for stack overflow a StackOverFlorException is thrown. Now typically an exception is thrown as follows (or the corresponding native way) throw new System.OutOfMemoryException();
Posted by abhinaba | 4 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:42 PM

When does the .NET Compact Framework Garbage Collector run

Other than the exact when part this post applies equally for the desktop portion. Disclaimer: This post is mainly indicative. When the GC runs is an implementation detail and shouldn't be relied on. This is not part of any contract or specification and
Posted by abhinaba | 5 Comments
Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:42 AM

Which end of the egg do you crack. Putting it differently, what is your Endianess

Few people seem to know that the word Endianess comes from Gullivers travels. In Gulliver's travel where there were two types of people, the Lilliputs who cracked the small side of their soft boiled eggs and the Blefuscu who used the big side (Big-Endian).
Posted by abhinaba | 6 Comments
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Friday, April 11, 2008 2:55 PM

Multi-threaded developer

Once upon a time a kick-ass developer I knew told me that a good developer needs to be multi-threaded and run the following threads The main worker thread : This is the one used to code up 3-tier applications for your employer. This pays for the rent
Posted by abhinaba | 1 Comments
 
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