June 2006 - Posts

Yikes, I've been slashdotted!
20 June 06 11:55 AM | ricom | 7 Comments   

While I was at the University of Waterloo (I'm an alumnus) I gave a talk to the Computer Science Club. The video has found it's way to slashdot and it seems not so embarassing that I can refer you to it. Though I have asked about getting it hosted on Read More...

MSDNWiki beta is live!
16 June 06 01:50 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   

http://msdnwiki.microsoft.com/en-us/mtpswiki/default.aspx I'm super excited about this little guy. I did a similar thing internally for just performance comments and it never caught on. Making all the docs there commentable is a stroke of genius. Not Read More...

Performance Quiz #10 -- Thread local storage
16 June 06 12:55 PM | ricom | 8 Comments   

It's time for another quiz! A very short one this time. If I need some thread local storage and I might need several entries should I use: Thread.GetData(slot) and Thread.SetData(slot, object) or should I make my own static member like this [ThreadStatic] Read More...

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