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Day Three Being Prepared.. There are a couple of pictures attached for you to preview. [gallery]

Day Two Being Prepared.. There are a couple of pictures attached for you to preview. [gallery]

Ahh japan. Sugoi! It was the most horrible trip to get here, but once here it is an... experience. The first full day we were here was very nice, but lets cover some ground rules. We dont really run our time here by an itinerary, but thats too be expected, people who know me know that I don't really plan things. This city is about change, and about the ...

One of the many fascinating fields that is growing in popularity is that of parallelism. Googleplex and MapReduce being the show-case of what you can do with parallelism, and what market power you can get when you utilize it efficiently is apparent. We encounter roadblocks and decisions throughout developing software and applications, but more and more we look to parallel processing to take care of it. In C# we ...

I've seen some dramatic failures because people have waited till the end. Only until after they were 'done coding' did they get the shock that it takes 30 seconds for their application to return "Hello World" and that Hello World call took 99% of cpu utilization and 600MB of ram. If there was any tip/trick to writing high performance applications it would be that performance goals should constantly be ...

Consider this, you are a hosting company hosting many different customer websites. Your customers pay anywhere between $50.00 to $100.00 a month to have a shared server host there asp.net applications. You business model depends on easily providing the exact same level of support and features to your clients that they could otherwise get if they did it themselves, you can do so at a reduced rate because ...

I really hate it. No, you have no idea. I really despise it.... It's that crusty, old, smelly, and repugnant idea that everything... and I mean everything.... must be in a database. It's a profuse nauseating waste of effort and time that just wont die. Don't get me wrong, databases were great, they had a purpose, filling a gap between COBOL programs (that makes schema changes as easy as ...

Just a quick little post today regarding how you can do some fairly simple color transformations to produce some visual 'charting' of data using html. This example stems from an experiment to simulate the StatsPress module that can be included in WordPress. The outcome of this is a color transformation class that can be used to perform some nice color ranges in both HEX (HTML) and System.Drawing.Color. Below ...

You've been there, working on a large or small project. Discovering things, learning new things, applying your new knowledge to get further and surpass your previous achievements. And it's that brilliant, thunderous, and blinding bolt of inspiration that gives way to that beautiful and elegant piece of knowledge, simplistic yet profound, that keeps you moving. How does this tie into working on a large 'SOA' based project at a ...