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Performance Advice, Southern Style
28 November 08 01:29 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   

While I was at PDC2008 I was introduced to Keith and Woody -- pretty soon there was a microphone in front of me and we were doing a podcast. Now I already liked these guys but when they used a picture of me from about 1998 I really liked them a lot more. Read More...

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Performance by Design at PDC2008!
12 September 08 12:48 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   

I'm happy to announce that I will be at PDC2008 (and I will work the booths until I can't speak) but in particular I'll be kicking off this precon event with my longtime colleagues Mark, Joe, and Vance. Come on out, I'd love to meet some of my readers! Read More...

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Just another day in the perf lab
18 June 08 02:55 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   

Even though I've been doing general architecture work on Visual Studio for nearly a year now, my friends in DDPERF are still plugging away on performance problems and finding some interesting results. This most recent thread is very interesting because Read More...

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Computer Measurement Group offers past papers to the public!
12 February 08 09:44 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   

As you know I presented my performance signatures paper at the Computer Measurement Group's (CMG) conference a little over a year ago and I am happy to announce that CMG is now offering previous proceedings from 2005 and older to the public .  I Read More...

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Linq to SQL Compiled Queries are thread-safe
29 November 07 05:00 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   

JD Conley wrote an interesting article showing the benefits you can get by using compiled queries on his blog .  He wrote me today saying: "I enjoyed your postings on linq to sql performance and compiled query optimization. I recently published Read More...

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Performance Threat Models
13 November 07 12:37 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   

I've been meaning to post this for ages and somehow I kept forgetting. J.D. and I have long thought that many of the techniques used to do a security threat model are actually directly applicable to doing performance analysis as well. The idea of threats Read More...

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Gamefest 2007: The Costs of Managed Code: The Avoidable and the Unavoidable
07 September 07 11:53 PM | ricom | 3 Comments   

A few weeks ago I spoke at Gamefest 2007 where I delivered this talk: The Costs of Managed Code: The Avoidable and the Unavoidable This talk is for those who want to understand the inescapable performance consequences of the managed programming method: Read More...

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Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008
07 September 07 12:26 PM | ricom | 4 Comments   

It seems I'm doing a lot of referral postings this month and I've got a couple more for you. This is the first one, near and dear to my heart because I worked with Cameron on some of these (and he didn't mention me at all, *sniff*) especially the performance Read More...

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Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
29 August 07 05:12 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   

Well our Patterns and Practices group has done it again with an excellent new guide, JD just announced the final version of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications . As with the last guide I was asked to provide feedback along the way and so Read More...

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Behind The Code
23 February 07 10:00 AM | ricom | 4 Comments   

When you're a person like me, who works on programming tools, I think it's fair to say that there are not too many days when you can come home to your children, tell them about your day, and they say something like "Wow, cool!" However, today is one of Read More...

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