August 2008 - Posts

Is Performance a "functional" requirement?
27 August 08 09:57 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   

We had an internal thread on this yesterday, maybe I was a little too glib but here is what I had to say about the topic [edited so it can be read standalone] The original question, “Is performance a functional requirement” is highly unexciting for me. Read More...

Filed under: performance, ramblings

Linq Compiled Queries Q & A
25 August 08 12:21 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   

I did a series of postings on Linq Compiled Queries last year, I recently got some questions on those postings that I thought would be of general interest. Q1: Why use the 'new' keyword in this snippet? var q = from o in nw.Orders select new {o.everything Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice, databases

Hard and Soft Mode Debugging or The Woes of Soft Mode
22 August 08 09:43 AM | ricom | 5 Comments   

I had to explain this a little while ago and I wrote up something that I thought was generally interesting. This is only approximately correct (even the examples are flawed) but I think you can get the idea. I had first hand experience trying to get a Read More...

Filed under: debuggers

Celebrating Twenty with a Pint
15 August 08 11:42 AM | ricom | 4 Comments   

No it isn't what you think. :) Today is my 20th anniversary at Microsoft. Wow. 20 years of doing anything is pretty amazing and 20 of this definitely counts as amazing, to me anyway. It's been a lot of fun. I got to celebrate in a very special way. You Read More...

Filed under: ramblings

Rebecca Norlander on Behind the Code
14 August 08 10:39 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   

Rebecca is a lovely person and she interviews very well here on the latest Behind the Code episode.  And I don't just like her because she can do good performance work, she's actually makes a great friend and even says yes when I ask her to dance Read More...

Filed under: recommendations

Visual Studio Extenders Conference
09 August 08 07:35 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   

If you ever wanted to see Redmond and meet some of the folks on the Visual Studio team this might be just the ticket for you. I'll be speaking about the future of Visual Studio there, especially from the perspective of those that make extensions for it Read More...

Filed under: recommendations