Brenton Housewhat are you looking at?Frans Bouma article about why a cache in an OR mapper doesn't make it fetch data faster.- August 31, 2006 Why a cache in an OR mapper doesn't make it fetch data faster. Via Frans Bouma's blog - PrefaceOne of the biggest myths in OR mapper land is about 'caching'. It's often believed that using a cache inside an OR mapper makes queries much faster and thus makes the OR mapper more efficient. With that conclusion in hand, every OR mapper which doesn't use a cache is therefore less efficient than the ones who do, rightWell... not exactly. In this article I hope to explain that caching in OR..http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/31/Frans-Bouma-article-about-why-a-cache-in-... How to detect old versions when deploying the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX)- August 31, 2006 How to detect old versions when deploying the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) Via Aaron Stebner's WebLog - I received an interesting question from a customer this weekend. They are working on a setup package that will include the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly the WinFX runtime components) as a prerequisite, and they wanted to automatically run the vs_uninst_winfx.exe cleanup tool to make sure that there were not any previous beta versions on the system that would cause setup..http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/31/How-to-detect-old-versions-when-deploying... DSL Tools V1 to ship with Visual Studio SDK V3 in first part of September- August 31, 2006 DSL Tools V1 release - latest news via stuart kent's blog - Having just returned from vacation, I thought I'd update folks about the V1 release of DSL Tools. This will be shipped as part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 3 in the first part of September. We have signed, sealed and delivered our code to the VS SDK team who are now just wrapping up. There will be a significant new documentation drop at the same time, although we will continue to update the documentation until the...http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/31/DSL-Tools-V1-to-ship-with-Visual-Studio-S... WCF and WCF Security Guidance Packages Released.- August 31, 2006 You can go to the download page here. On the download page you will also find an excel spreadsheet which has features that are planned for the December CTP release of Service Factory. WCF Guidance Packages available for download! Via patterns & practices: Service Factory : News - If you have the July CTP of .NET 3.0 installed and have been wanting to use Service Factory to create WCF services, I am now happy to encourage you to do so :) This release only includes 2.http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/31/WCF-and-WCF-Security-Guidance-Packages-Re... What's the difference between working on an open source project and working on a paid job- August 31, 2006 Steve King (author of TortoiseSVN) has an interesting article on the differences between working on his open source project and his paid job.http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/30/What_2700_s-the-difference-between-workin... Interesting interview question- August 30, 2006 Hamilton Verissimo posts details about an interesting interview questions Interesting snippet Via Zen and the art of Castle maintenance - Ayende has posted an interesting code snippet useful to measure how much a candidate to a job knows about the compiler heshe claims to work on. selected = selected++; I’ve seen this one years ago (2002 I think) in a Java prep exam. My first guess was that ’selected’ variable would hold the result of selected++. Wrong!...http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/30/Interesting-interview-question.aspx Learn more about your site's status in the Google index.- August 30, 2006 http:www.google.comwebmasterssitemapssitestatushttp://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/29/Learn-more-about-your-site_2700_s-status-... Pilot invites go out for Microsofts AdSense competitor- August 30, 2006 Pilot invites go out for Microsoft’s AdSense competitor Via TechCrunch - Microsoft’s long awaited contextual advertising platform, named ContentAds, sent out the first invitations today to prospective participants in its pilot program. Starting on “primarily” (their word) MSN owned sites, Microsoft says that ContentAds will place advertisements using not just keywords but also demographic targeting, geo-targeting and incremental bidding tools. Sounds like...http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/29/Pilot-invites-go-out-for-Microsoft_1920_s... Clearing Enum Flags- August 30, 2006 Clearing Enum Flags Via Krzysztof Cwalina - Somebody just pointed out to me that the enum guidelines don’t provide any information on how to clear a flag in a flags enum variable. This is quite easy to do if the enum has a value (member) that has all the flags set. Such value is usually called All. Flags public enum Foos A = 1, B = 2, C = 4, D = 8, AB = A ...http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/29/Clearing-Enum-Flags.aspx Heralding PLINQ into the LINQ party- August 30, 2006 Sounds interesting. What’s weird is that eWEEK is the one with early coverage on it… Heralding PLINQ into the LINQ party Via Jonathan Bruce's WebLog - eWEEK reports today, the announcement of PLinq. I'll quite directly from the article, as Andreas Hejlsberg captures the concept succinctly: "With PLinq, effectively you write the code the same way, but we arrange for it to run on multiple CPUs," ...and... "So the queries get split up and run on multiple CPUs,.http://weblogs.asp.net/bhouse/archive/2006/08/29/Heralding-PLINQ-into-the-LINQ-party-.aspx |