Andrew Hunter Object Overhead: The Hidden .NET Memory Allocation Cost When developing a .NET application, one of the least visible sources of memory consumption is the overhead required by an... 09 September 2009 4 min read
Timothy Wiseman Python for the SQL Server DBA Python is increasingly used by DBAs as a general-purpose scripting language, despite the pressure to adopt Microsoft's PowerShell. They find... 27 August 2009 8 min read
Nick Harrison A Defense of Reflection in .NET The trouble with making general rules about programming practices is that one can miss out on many benefits of of... 13 August 2009 14 min read
Damon Armstrong Beating up my Code with ANTS Performance Profiler Ty Anderson assumed that his cryptographic library was perfect until he tried it out with ANTS Performance Profiler. Within twenty... 17 July 2009 16 min read
Nick Harrison Code Deodorants for Code Smells Code Smells have become an established way of talking about indications that things may be wrong with your code. Nick... 09 July 2009 11 min read
Andrew Hunter Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET Once you understand how .NET's garbage collector works, then the reasons for some of the more mysterious problems that can... 17 June 2009 14 min read
Laila Lotfi Profiling the Memory Usage of a .NET Application with ANTS Memory Profiler 5 We were recently taken to task by a reader who felt that the one place he'd expect to find a... 04 June 2009 8 min read
Nick Harrison A Gentle Introduction to .NET Code Generation Code-generation has been used throughout the age of the digital computer. The use of code to generate code might, at... 28 May 2009 13 min read
Brian Harris What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? Part 2 Developers of software that is used in the office need to be aware of what Games Developers are doing to... 15 May 2009 15 min read
Nick Harrison Exploring Smelly Code Bad Code Smells are similar in concept to Development-level Antipatterns. They don't describe bad programming aesthetics and you can't sniff... 27 April 2009 12 min read
Ben Hall Embedding IronRuby and the DLR into SQL Data Generator You can embed DLR-based languages such as IronPython and IronRuby into applications. This gives you instant scripting, and with it,... 23 April 2009 14 min read
Andrew Hunter When to Run and When to Block When you are developing a multi-threaded application, you will need to understand how the operating system decides which threads are... 21 April 2009 14 min read
Shereen Qumsieh Working With the ANTS Profiler to Optimize SharePoint When a page in SharePoint takes 30 seconds to load, it is time for any developer to be concerned. There... 20 April 2009 9 min read
Geoffrey Braaf Solving Performance Problems in an ASP.NET application with ANTS Profiler You have a Data-Access Layer that is generating dynamic SQL, and you haven't the time to understand the implementation of... 31 March 2009 6 min read
Andrew Hunter The Dangers of the Large Object Heap You'd have thought that memory leaks were a thing of the past now that we use .NET. True, but we... 19 March 2009 13 min read
Brian Harris What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? Application Developers and designers often seem addicted to playing video games. Is this wasted time? Perhaps not, if they are... 05 March 2009 9 min read
.NET Ryan Garaygay in .NET Using a Profiler to Speed Application Performance Use a profiler to measure before you optimise. If ever you doubt this advice, then you should read this fascinating... 27 February 2009 4 min read
Gayani Devapriya Designing A Data Access Layer in LINQ to SQL Gayani provides the complete source code for a sample Data Access Layer for LINQ to SQL, using the Northwind Database,... 21 February 2009 13 min read
Chris Massey Has .NET Reflector Saved Your Bacon? We think Reflector is a fantastic tool, and we know you do too. We'd love to hear about the times... 28 January 2009 1 min read
Ben Hall Annotating Code with .NET Reflector and Review Add-In Ben Hall takes a look at a simple add-in to .NET Reflector that helps team development work in a number... 27 January 2009 6 min read
