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Don’t be this guy
I found this sort of amusing, though I’ll be the first to admit that the humor will be lost on some people. This is a clip from a web site that’s promoting an infrastructure component that’s supposed to be enterprise-quality and highly available. While I’m sure this is true, it’s also true that having a [...]
Spec’ing a Computer
I recently helped a friend build a new PC, and I threw a few notes together along the way. If you’ve never built a PC from scratch (or haven’t done so recently), you may find some of these things helpful. Note that the focus here is on building a high-end business machine or a developer [...]
Don’t get hosed by “Someday”
For the last couple days, I’ve been helping another project team track down a memory leak in their app. Memory leaks always seem to show up at the most inopportune moments, of course, and this one was no exception. This memory leak, however, was self-inflicted. The source of the memory leak appears to be rooted [...]
Cloud pricing: is Azure competitive?
Now that Azure’s pricing model is starting to take shape, we’re starting to see what Microsoft meant when they said Azure would be priced “competitively”. This week, Oakleaf Systems compared Azure to Amazon’s cloud offerings, highlighting costs for developers to gets started on these platforms (Amazon Undercuts Windows Azure Table and SQL Azure Costs with [...]
Best. Logger. Ever.
Logging is one of those “system” components that always seems to either be left out or way over-engineered (glares at Microsoft‘s Enterprise Application Blocks). Today, I’d like to introduce you to a logging framework that’s everything it needs to be and nothing it doesn’t. The .Net Logging Framework from The Object Guy is powerful enough [...]
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