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I will be doing a webinar with the good folks of PostSharp on the 22nd March to talk about the use of AOP and AWS CloudWatch as a pseudo real-time performance monitoring tool (see high-level overview here). It’s a free webinar, it runs from 22nd March 3PM – 4PM GMT, the registration link is here. [...]

Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.   Since my last round of benchmarks on binary serializers, there’s a new player in town – MessageShark, which at the time of this writing does not support serialization of fields, but offers comparable speed [...]

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 [...]