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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 [...]
Kobe outrage – why?
Over the last couple days, I’ve seen a small firestorm erupt over Microsoft‘s Kobe MVC sample project. First out of the gates was Karl Seguin, with a rant about all sorts of coding ills found in the source. Then, today, I saw another great post that breaks down some specific problems with duplicate lines and [...]
New syncing options for WinMo phones
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft and Google have each announced syncing tools for Windows Mobile phones recently, but based on what I’m seeing, I’m sticking with a service you’ve probably never heard of. Microsoft announced “My Phone” last week, and today announced that it will be available for free. At present, it’s in limited beta, but [...]
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