March 2005 - Posts

Google ridefinder!

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 21:40 | girishb

If you thought maps.google.com was slick, check out the " ride finder ". It will show you the locations of rides available in a given area. Its still in lab but.. my god. Is there anything these guys will not do? The really neat part is the fact that...

IronPython 0.7

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 23:57 | girishb

Woohoo, I found out from Brad's blog that IronPython 0.7 is out.

When do you tune your apps?

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 23:41 | girishb

I like EricGu's article on when to do performance tuning. I agree with some of the remarks particularly about the "intution based performance tuning". I have bitten once too many times by premature optimization and speculative optimization. I try to get...

Commandline UI while waiting for a thread to finish

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 23:30 | girishb

Here is a simple way to show something is happening on a client end background thread (which I am sure you have seen it in Linux and other command UIs).. //assuming async is IAsyncResult char nextChar = '/'; while (!async.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(100,true...

.NET questions

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 11:22 | girishb

Here is a great list of things Scott thinks any .NET developer should know. Awesome. I think this will be a reference for me for sometime to come. BTW: In case you are wondering, I am catching up on my subscribed blogs. Thats why you see somewhat old...

DevNuggets

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 9:45 | girishb

Thom Robbins has created " DevNuggets ", to provide "manageable" bits of information about events and topics. More information can be found here . I can think of this as being pretty cool if its used for the purpose proposed. I can imagine this to be...

Best and Worst from Scott

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 9:37 | girishb

K.Scott lists best and worst in .NET 1.1. As usual, its very interesting just with the amount of nuggets in there. I particularly like the "Tight coupling" listing. Cool, Thanks, Scott.

Richard grimes about .NET

Published Thu, Mar 3 2005 21:54 | girishb

I am sure everyone who cares about .NET has read this and read this and this as well. What I find amazing is not that Richard complained about large libraries and Avalon and Microsoft intentions. That can be expected from someone who has been working...