12 Dec
2008

Batching Remote Operations Is Not Premature Optimization

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I spent a day at Devoxx (formerly known as Javapolis) this week, and one of the presentations i saw was about common performance anti-patterns, given by Alois Reitbauer from DynaTrace. While i didn’t really hear anything new during the presentation, i did kinda like how the speaker stressed that while premature optimization is indeed evil, […]

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12 Dec
2008

SQL Pivot

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This is Jason who is continuing to masquerade as a guest. I’m going to let you into a dirty little secret…I’ve written a lot of SQL during my career. This admission almost sounds like heresay in these days of DDD, BDD etc. but it’s still an incredibly useful skill to have. Anyway a lot of […]

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