Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking to The Developers Group on the 14th Mar about NoSQL Databases and how to use them to solve common web use cases. In this session I’ll give an overview of the NoSQL movement and compare the different types of NoSQL databases and their relative [...]

For illustration purposes only, here’s how you can implement the QuickSort algorithm in a few lines of code: Note that I’ve not made the list generic to avoid complications and performance overheads associated with dealing with generics. Even then, my 5-line implementation pales in comparison with the built-in sort function: This just goes to show [...]

Introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming View more presentations from Yan Cui

This is something I’ve mentioned in my recent AOP talks, and I think it’s worthy of a wider audience as it can be very useful to anyone who’s obsessed with performance as I am. At iwi, we take performance very seriously and are always looking to improve the performance of our applications. In order for [...]

C# By default, arithmetic operations and conversions in C# execute in an unchecked context, you can use the checked keyword to switch a block of code to the checked context so that any arithmetic overflow that occurs in that block of code will cause the OverflowException to be thrown: However, the scope of the checked [...]