Earlier this year Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC version 3 (asp.net/mvc), as well as a new product called WebMatrix (asp.net/webmatrix). The WebMatrix release included a number of productivity helpers to simplify tasks such as rendering charts and tabular data.
Performance · SignalR/SignalR Wiki · GitHubASP.NET and IIS scale very well, but you'll need to change a few settings to set up your server for lots of concurrent connections, as opposed to lots of requests per second. By default ASP.NET 4.0 sets the maximum concurrent connections to 5000 per CPU.
An Interactive Guide To The Fourier TransformThe Fourier Transform is one of deepest insights ever made. Unfortunately, the meaning is buried within dense equations: Yikes. Rather than deciphering it symbol-by-symbol, let's experience the idea. Here's a plain-English metaphor:
Debunking DRAM vs. Flash Controversy vis-a-vis In-Memory Processing ‹ GridGainWikibon produced an interesting material (looks like paid by Aerospike, NoSQL database recently emerged by resurrecting failed CitrusLeaf and acquihiring AlchemyDB, which product, of course, was recommended in the end) that compares NoSQL databases based on storing data in flash-based SSD vs.
Garbage collection thoughtsOne of the things that’s annoyed me for a while is that there aren’t any high performance, high level languages, really being seriously developed.
The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods – journal.stuffwithstuff.comOver the weekend, I was reading one of the shagadelic papers on Self, Parents are Shared Parts of Objects: Inheritance and Encapsulation in SELF. What can I say, I have a weird idea of fun.
Finding and Fixing a Five Second StallThe great thing about programming on Windows is that it is the only commercially viable platform where you can ship software to users without getting approval from a giant bureaucracy (well, perhaps I should say it used to be).
Make a simple html5 game with box2d in javascript – tutorialFirst lets play the game that we shall be making in this tutorial. Its called Fruit Hunter. Tested on Chrome and Firefox. Click in the game then start using the arrow keys to control the monkey. Press the left, right and up arrow keys to make the monkey move and jump.
Whose bug is this anyway?!?At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!?
How Do We Read Code?I recently got to participate in a psychological experiment for programmers. A friend of mine, Mike Hansen, is doing research on how people comprehend programs.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.