Jeff and .NET - All Comments

re: Building a live blog app in Windows Azure

Escalante — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:21:30 GMT

This article provides clear idea for the new users of

blogging, that actually how to do blogging and site-building.

re: Building for Web scale is a different skill

Jeff — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:13:51 GMT

Yes, and shuttling half-gig object graphs (true story) around between the cache and the front-end servers is hardly efficient, or good for bandwidth.

re: Building for Web scale is a different skill

123456 is my password — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:33:20 GMT

There are lots of distributed and redundant cache solutions that allow you to store object graphs. There's really no need to denormalize as a result. Memory is cheap.

re: One interface to rule them all

Jeff — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:23:27 GMT

I tend to disagree in the case of data repos and querying mechanisms. A common interface rarely helps you out here, because a) you're never swapping the concrete implementations for each other, and b) there isn't any real advantage for testing either. What I see is a lot of extraneous methods that never get used.

re: One interface to rule them all

Steven — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:44:38 GMT

The last couple of years I found out that systems benefit greatly from having a few well defined generic interfaces that define a srt of closely related classes in the system. For instance an ICommandHandler<TCommand> for use cases, an IRepository<TEntity> as abstraction over the DAL and an IQueryHandler<TQuery, TResult> abstraction over queries in the system.

re: One interface to rule them all

Mr Programmer — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:17:41 GMT

Totally agreed, I do have a Comp Sci degree and some developers just like to use interfaces and abstractions for the sake of looking like they understand design patterns and OOP.

re: .NET development on a Retina MacBook Pro with Windows 8

Jeff — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:18:05 GMT

Whatever the native resolution is, with Windows using 150% on the font scaling.

re: .NET development on a Retina MacBook Pro with Windows 8

mourhoon — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:26:45 GMT

What kind of "scaling" in Parallels do you use to run Visual Studio? "Scaled" or "Best for retina"?

re: The burden of hiring software developers

Tyler — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:20:47 GMT

Yes. We're on the same page there. I guess I'm just simply trying to figure out how to fix the currently broken and useless IT recruiter model.

re: The burden of hiring software developers

Jeff — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:56:37 GMT

I didn't say anything about outsourcing a final decision. I'm talking about making the screening more efficient.