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My Code Kata–A Solution Kata
Sunday, November 13, 2011 1:53 PM

There are many developers and coders out there who like to do code Kata’s to keep their coding ability up to scratch and to practice their skills. I think it is a good idea. While I like the concept, I find them dead boring and of minimal purpose. Yes, they serve to hone your skills but that’s about it. They are often quite abstract, in that they usually focus... Read More...

by Glav | 4 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, Community News, General, Personal

Updates to the CacheAdapter Package
Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:12 PM

Note: This post was originally going to detail the changes from 2.0 to 2.1, however in between the time of release and this post, I released 2.2 so this post will detail all the changes up to 2.2. In the last update to my CacheAdapter library (you can view it here ), I mentioned the support for memcached cache engine. That brought the version to 2.0. As previously... Read More...

by Glav | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, CacheAdapter, Component, Performance

Sydney Architecture User Group - It has come to an end
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:57 PM

Unfortunately, the Sydney Architecture User Group that Omar Besiso and myself run in Sydney, is closing its doors. It has been running for around 2 years now and we have had some great sessions, however there are a number of factors that have caused us to make this decision. Primarily, we lost our funding. Datacom (the company I used to work for and where Omar... Read More...

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Sydney Architecture User Group – WPF Architecture
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:22 PM

Bit short notice for a blog post but eminent WPF expert Paul Stovell will be presenting on WPF Architecture at the Sydney Architecture User Group on thursday 25th February. (Full details here ) Here is the abstract: .NET 4.0 will mark the fourth release of Windows Presentation Foundation, and the take up continues to rise as the platform matures. For architects... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Architecture, Windows, WPF

.Net Performance Testing and Optimisation – Free eBook
Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:43 AM

This blog has been super quiet lately. This is mainly because I have been hard at work writing a book around .Net Performance Testing and optimisation. Well, I am happy to say that part 1 of this book is available as a free download from here . The full book will follow shortly and will contain concrete examples of popular performance issues in .Net applications... Read More...

by Glav | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, General, Performance, Visual Studio

Sydney Architecture User Group – Next Meeting: Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:46 PM

The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) ) Here... Read More...

by Glav | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, Community News, Mobile, Silverlight, SQL, Visual Studio, WCF, Web 2.0, Windows, WPF

Sample chapter from upcoming book
Sunday, November 08, 2009 6:59 PM

There is a sample chapter from my upcoming book on all things performance related within the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the book will be about performance testing, profiling and optimisation for web and desktop applications developed using Microsoft.NET. This sample chapter is just a teaser and the book itself goes into great detail about how to setup... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, Community News, General, Performance

SAUG – Sydney Architecture User Group
Thursday, October 15, 2009 9:28 AM

The first meeting of the Sydney Architecture User Group is going to be held on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009, form 6.00pm to 8.00pm, at the Grace Hotel , 77 York st, Sydney. ( Link to map ) It will be housed in one of the very nice function rooms they have. Food and drink will be provided. Omar Besiso and myself will be hosting the event, with all funding and... Read More...

by Glav | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, Community News, General, Web 2.0

2 TechEd Interviews are live
Friday, September 11, 2009 3:45 PM

Its been a long time since I wrote a blog post but I have been a very busy boy. This week I have been at TechEd Australia on the sunny Gold Coast in Queensland. I have been keeping a pretty low profile this year but I did participate in 2 interviews that are now available for viewing or download from the Microsoft online site. The first one is an interview with... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, TechEd, Videocast

Silverlight 3 and WCF Faults
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:57 PM

On  a previous project that utilised WCF and Silverlight 2, I began implementing an error handling strategy that was going to rely on certain FaultExceptions being propagated to the Silverlight client. Well it turned out that Silverlight 2 does not support FaultExceptions so that was not going to fly and a custom solution was built. Well Silverlight 3 does... Read More...

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Filed under: .NET, Architecture, Silverlight, WCF

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