The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule , the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity ) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. This applies to programming as well: 80% of the...

Scenario: You have to design and implement a distributed application where a lot of clients call different operations in parallel. In certain situations, in order to make the system behave better, you need to delay some operations. Some examples where...

For quite a while I’ve been using Live Writer to edit and publish blogs and I am quite satisfied with it (there are some quirks, no doubt about it, but it mostly works). I recently tried to install Live Writer on my newest Win7 box and I had a most...