I often see programmers saying that .NET read-only collections violate Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP). Do they? The quick answer is no, they don’t, because IList interface has IsReadOnly flag. The exception is Array class, it does violate LSP since version 2.0 of .NET.
Windows Slowdown, Investigated and IdentifiedI recently noticed that my Windows 7 home laptop was running slower than usual. It seemed to be spending a lot of time waiting on disk I/O. When I looked at Task Manager it showed that my laptop was caching about one fifth as much disk data as normal, but the cause of this was not obvious.
Knowing Where to Type ‘Zero’Some code optimizations requires complex data structures and thousands lines of code. But, in a surprising number of cases, significant improvements can be made by simple changes – sometimes as simple as typing a single zero.
Beware Of Micro-FragmentationWhile watching Neal Ford’s terrific “Agile Engineering Practices” video series, I paid close attention to the segment in which he interactively demonstrated the technique of Test Driven Development (TDD).
Blarghgettimeofday() and time() should only be used to get the current time if the current wall-clock time is actually what you want. They should never be used to measure time or schedule an event X time into the future.
Why We (Still) Believe in Private OfficesThere was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument, the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
The problem with AngularIn the last six months or so I talked to several prospective clients that had a problem finding front-end consultants in order to help their dev teams get a grip on their Angular projects.
The eleventh year: what to do after having taught yourself programming in ten yearsYou have followed the “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years” advice. Now what? Christmas and the new year’s eve have passed. Now you are a few kilograms fatter. You have spent the last few days reading Hacker News and Reddit and playing League of Legends or GTA V for the PS4.
NuGet Package of the Week: Polly wanna fluently express transient exception handling policies in .NET?LOL at my own post title. Pardon me. Michael Wolfenden has a very clever open source library called Polly. Polly is a .NET 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.
The Worst Server Setup Mistake You Can MakeThere’s one server setup mistake you can make that will screw you up for years to come. It’ll haunt your business, your developers and your server admins, and be hugely expensive to fix. It’s surprisingly easy to make. The mistake? Use UTC. Use UTC. Use UTC. Use UTC. Use UTC. Use UTC.
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.