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Glass Houses
19 July 06 03:46 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

In his article Glass houses are great places to throw stones Raymond writes in part: Whenever I write an article explaining that programs should avoid doing X, I can confidently rely on a comment saying, " Well, Microsoft Product Q does this !" as if Read More...

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I guess he's worth reading now :)
02 March 06 12:34 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   

My long time friend and colleague Jack Gudenkauf has joined the CLR as an architect http://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/archive/2006/02/06/526217.aspx I know Jack is expecting me to tell you all what a big loser I think he is but I'll surprise him by not doing Read More...

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Buckle up: it’s going to be a bumpy ride
11 January 06 01:28 PM | ricom | 7 Comments   

It’s not easy to get good performance culture. Perhaps at first blush you might think that it would be easy. After all performance planning, like many other quality aspects, is about creating a better product for your customers in a better way. It’s about Read More...

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Exciting changes for me
09 December 05 11:00 AM | ricom | 16 Comments   

I've changed jobs. Well, sort of :) For the Whidbey product release I was the performance architect on the CLR, and I can't even start to tell you how much fun that was. And how educational it was. So the bad news is I'm not doing that anymore. But the Read More...

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What I'll be doing at the PDC : Video
26 August 05 11:39 AM | ricom | 0 Comments   

Several people on the CLR team were visited a couple of weeks ago and we got a chance to talk about our PDC plans. This video has mine :) Read More...

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Mission (almost) accomplished
09 August 05 11:57 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   

I was talking to a friend earlier today about how much fun I've had blogging these many months now (soon two years) and I was reminded of one of my favorite examples of unexpectedly influencing someone. Sriram Krishnan wrote an article called " How to Read More...

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A Few Good (Performance) Men
09 June 05 02:57 PM | ricom | 13 Comments   

Sometimes people ask me why my talks tend to teach the basics about performance and not Really Scary Performance Stuff (TM). My answer is actually pretty simple, I teach what I think most people need to hear and really most people need to be reminded Read More...

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Personal emails
14 January 05 12:43 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

I just thought I'd post a reminder of my policy on these. http://weblogs.asp.net/ricom/archive/2004/07/13/182016.aspx Thank you for your readership, for your correspondence, and your understanding. Read More...

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Top Ten reasons you should subscribe to my blog
13 December 04 11:58 AM | ricom | 6 Comments   

10. Plenty of fresh disclaimers in each post, all cut/paste friendly 9. No danger of a clear position on any issue , can use blog to justify any action you need to take. 8. Quiz results great way to impress unsuspecting managers. 7. Performance Tidbits Read More...

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Performance planning for Risk Management
14 September 04 09:37 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   

Eric Gunnerson has an interesting position regarding my latest performance advice and I thought I'd respond to what he's written. Eric counsels in part: "...I'm not sure that you should spend too much time thinking about the issues that he's talking about..." Read More...

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Personal emails
13 July 04 12:43 PM | ricom | 3 Comments   

I got some more personal email via my blog here today and I think it's sort of reaching the point where I should write a little something about my policy on one to one communication. I do apologize but there's just no way that I could possibly hope to Read More...

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csc default options change (use /o+ now)
12 July 04 02:43 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

Eric writes about this in his blog It's important that you get in the habit of throwing /o+ for your retail builds as you would for C++ compilation systems. If it had been me I'd have made /o+ the default but then I'm the perf guy so I have a jaded opinion Read More...

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It's a feedback time of year
01 July 04 09:41 AM | ricom | 5 Comments   

Performance review time at Microsoft is a good time for self-reflection and to make a point of getting feedback on how things have gone for the past year. I find the feedback can be both surprising and educational so from time to time I try to coax comments Read More...

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Wow, someone was listening :)
23 June 04 09:59 AM | ricom | 0 Comments   

I got quoted in Marco Dorantes' WebLog -- he has some interesting thoughts, might want to give him a read. Read More...

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Two quick hrefs
03 June 04 03:55 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

My colleague Maoni has a blog , you might want to give it a visit. Also there was a great deal of feedback on my last posting that I think is valuable. If you don't routinely read the feedback you might want to give that posting a second look. Read More...

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