Last time we looked at using ZeroMQ to use a БЂњDivide And ConquerБЂ« pattern to distribute work to a number of workers and then combine the results again. Since I wrote that last post I have had a bit of think about this series of posts, and realised that nothing I can say here would […]

Hello All, so the past week has been particularly busy, but as I sit here tonight, while working through one of the most chaotic weeks since my daughter was born.  I wanted to take a second and have the followup to a previous post about the MCSD exams.For those of you who know me, you know that I've

The main Jibebuy  web app is a single page web app based on AngularJS.  Inspired by reading The Definitive Guide to Angular on Mobile, I decided to spend 1 day porting Jibebuy to Cordova. After just a few hours, I was able to login to Jibebuy on my Android phone! After a couple of days, I had a...

Learn how to use the debugger to answer implementation questions for yourself.

In Writing High-Performance .NET Code, I mention the WeakReference type briefly in Chapter 2 (Garbage Collection), but I don’t go into it too much. However, for the blog, I want to start a small series of posts going into some more detail about WeakReference, how it works, and when to use it,

Last time, I talked about the basics of using WeakReference, what they meant and how the CLR treats them. Today in part 2, I’ll discuss some important subtleties. Part 3 of this series can be found here. Short vs. Long Weak References First, there are two types of weak references in the CLR: S

In Part 1, I discussed the basics of WeakReference and WeakReference. Part 2 introduced short and long weak references as well as the concept of resurrection. I also covered how to use the debugger to inspect your memory for the presence of weak references. This article will complete this miniseries

In this article I will show how to use SharePoint workflow to render flexible dynamic text templates. To demonstrate this functionality I will describe how to configure workflow to generate and send email messages based on a template stored in SharePoint list, but this approach can be used to render

I was speaking to a colleague recently during one of our fortnightly tech forums and he mentioned a specific class …Continue reading →

While lurking and skulking in the shadows of various technical .Net sites, I've noticed many developers discussing log4net in their blogs and posts; log4net is an extremely popular tool for logging .Net Applications. So, I decided to try it out. After the initial complexities of getting it up and ru