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Scalability versus Efficiency
The tendency of a good developer is to make an application as efficient as possible. Minimise communications, use memory rather than disk for storage and generally make things as tight and...
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Indexing Nulls
Most database indexes types do not index NULL values. What this means is that anywhere a query’s WHERE clause contains “IS NULL” a full table scan will ensue (or at best an index range scan). This...
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Documenting Code
The most important thing I can stress here is that I truly believe in the value of good documentation and that this article only addresses what I believe is a flaw in some documentation strategies....
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Predictive Reasoning
Devastatingly smart Rafal Lukawiecki, that virtuoso of technical presentation, gave yet another brilliant presentation on how the seemingly “ivory tower” techniques of Artificial Intelligence can be...
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What’s Happened to Dynamic Data?
I came to TechEd 2009 with the intention of identifying what happened with Dynamic Data since last year. For those of you who don’t know; Dynamic Data is Microsoft’s answer to Ruby on Rails. It’s a...
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QCon London 2012 – High Expectations
I am in London this week for QCon London 2012. Expectations are high and I hope it lives up to it. So far so good, I have to say. I have been on two tutorials so far and if quality is kept at this...
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QCon London 2012 – Day 1 of the Conference
Today was the first day of the conference, and it was a very good day. I must say it largely met my expectations. I was part of the day on Architecture track and part of the day on High Availability....
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QCon London 2012 – Day 2
Just got back from another day at QCon London 2012. Previous day was very good, but this morning I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the sessions, and surely it was a mixed bag. Originally, I’ve...
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Alternatives for Limiting Message Size within an Event Driven Architecture
I’ve discussed using event messages to carry payload data, to help with resynchronizing a failed independent component with its loosely coupled neighbours. However, this could very easily lead to...
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gitignore Files… Are You Still Creating Them Manually?
Do you use Git? Do you create your .gitignore files manually? If yes, here is an on-line tool that can make your life easier. gitignore.io I’m talking about gitignore.io. It is based on a very simple...
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