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Profiling the Memory Usage of a .NET Application

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:45:02 GMT

Automatic memory management in .NET makes development a lot easier; however, it's still easy to introduce memory leaks into your application. For example, in a complex application, it's easy to forget to unregister event handlers, and these are notorious for holding on to objects which you don't need to keep in memory any more. This typically leads to an increase in memory usage which, if it remains unchecked and unresolved, can lead to your application exhibiting poor performance, or even running out of memory and crashing. This is where a memory profiler becomes necessary.

Automagic Time Localization

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

A trick to localize timestamps without requiring users to pick their time zone manually.

Zen and the Art of Project Management

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:15:00 GMT

Nate Kohari, the developer of Ninject, announces Zen, a project management system based around lean/kanban.

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 12:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Kalamazoo X Conference Recap and Slide Deck

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:27:07 GMT

Thanks and congratulations to Mike Eaton and the all the organizers and staff for creating, organizing and hosting this one-of-a-kind event. All the talks were great, but I want to especially single-out two that I thought we absolutely incredible...

Talking with Jeremy Miller about Alt.Net

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:16:17 GMT

As a follow up to the last podcast that featured Mike Moore and Scott Bellware discussing Alt.Net I spoke with Jeremy Miller to put out a vision for what he feels Alt.Net should represent and how it can be a positive thing in the community. This will be the last episode here on this topic, I promise to get back to normal technology discussions (next episode is about BDD and TDD).

A conversation with the CTO of I Can Has Cheezburger

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:16:03 GMT

In this podcast I talk with Scott about the technologies they use to build one of the funniest sites on the web. We talk about ASP.NET, PHP, application architecture, the cost of using Microsoft tools and technologies, hiring at a startup, startup strategy, and much more.

Fluent NHibernate new style mappings - powerful semantics

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:01:06 GMT

So today I updated to the latest build of Fluent NHibernate. As any of you who might have done the same have discovered there are some breaking changes. I wasn't sure I liked the new class based conventions at first, especially since it wasn't clear at first how to tackle altering my mappings. Then it dawned on me how powerful the conventions would end up being while also promoting DRY.

Ninject and the Ms-PL

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:01:10 GMT

Ninject is now dual-licensed under the Apache license and the Microsoft Public License.

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 17: The State of Alt.Net

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:01:04 GMT

Mike Moore talks with Scott Bellware about the state of Alt.Net

Cache-and-Collect Lifecycle Management in Ninject 2.0

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:31:11 GMT

An explanation of a new solution to an old problem with inversion of control.

Alt.Net Podcast: The State of IronRuby 2009

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:31:13 GMT

A quick update on the state of the IronRuby project with John Lam.

Ninject 2 Reaches Beta

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:31:03 GMT

Version 2.0 of the Ninject dependency injection framework has reached beta status.

A Really Bad Example of YAGNI

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:02:10 GMT

In a recent blog post, "A Quick Example of YAGNI", the author presents what is quite possibly the worst example of YAGNI I've ever read.

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Today I've Realized How Far We Have To Go

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

A call to climb on the shoulders of giants within the software develeopment industry.

Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:01:19 GMT

There are a handful of essential add-ins for Expression Blend that you should be using. This article talks about how you get the add-ins working in the first place and then dives into a few of the add-ins that are available.

Playing with JSON

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:46:22 GMT

Josh Holmes digs into JSON with Silverlight and a few JSON frameworks... Check out the article to see Silverlight leveraging JSON with System.Json, LINQ and more. There's even samples in raw JavaScript, MSAjax, Prototype and JQuery. Finally he ended it all up by mixing JQuery and Silverlight. That was fun and remarkably simple.

Nate Hoellein - How I Got Started In Programming

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Nate Hoellein was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Richard Campbell - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:46:02 GMT

Richard Campbell of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Carl Franklin - How I Got Started In Programming

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks was interviewed on how he got started in programming. Great video!

Double-clicking a VS2005 Solution in Vista

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:16:02 GMT

How to make double-clicking a VS2005 .sln launch VS properly in Vista.

How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:31:10 GMT

Do you bad software and unhappy developers? Well, it isn't that hard...

Stealing Someone Else's Work

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:03:31 GMT

"[A blogger] has clearly taken the Microdesk.Utility.UnitTest.dll and torn it open using Reflector or some other similar MSIL decompiler tool and then posted the actual source code on his blog (interestingly, after of course removing the Microdesk from the class namespace designations in the code he's posted so it looks as though its his own effort). " And the Douchebag of the Year award goes to....

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.