As some of you have noticed (and let me know), my old blog hosting provider recently moved off Community Server to WordPress. I figured that as all the links we being broken anyway, now would be a good time to move off msmvps.com anyway. The old posts are still there, but my blog’s new home […]

Introduction Recently I've been optimizing the heck out of Noda Time. Most of the time this has been a case of the normal measurement, find bottlenecks, carefully analyse them, lather, rinse, repeat. Yesterday I had a hunch about a particular cost, and decided to experiment... leading to a surprising optimization. Noda Time's core types are mostly value types - date/time values are naturally value types, just as DateTime and DateTimeOffset are in the BCL. Noda Time's types are a bit bigger than most valu[...]

Introduction Recently I’ve been optimizing the heck out of Noda Time. Most of the time this has been a case of the normal measurement, find bottlenecks, carefully analyse them, lather, rinse, repeat. Yesterday I had a hunch about a particular cost, and decided to experiment… leading to a surprising optimization. Noda Time’s core types are […]

(Note that I'm not talking about "processing collections in parallel, which is definitely not an anti-pattern...) I figured it was worth starting to blog about anti-patterns I see frequently on Stack Overflow. I realize that some or all of these patterns may be collected elsewhere, but it never hurts to express such things yourself... it's a good way of internalizing information, aside from anything else. I don't guarantee that my style of presenting these will stay consistent, but I'll do what I can... [...]

(Note that I’m not talking about "processing collections in parallel, which is definitely not an anti-pattern…) I figured it was worth starting to blog about anti-patterns I see frequently on Stack Overflow. I realize that some or all of these patterns may be collected elsewhere, but it never hurts to express such things yourself… it’s […]