We ran into a huge memory leak this week. A bit of memory profiling with JetBrains’ dotTrace quickly showed that the Windsor IoC container was holding on to a lot of references. It turned out that i actually forgot to release the components i was requesting Windsor to construct for me. I use the container […]
Read MoreI’ve been playing around with StructureMap for the last couple of days and I must say that I’m really impressed. I had no troubles in quickly getting up to speed with this amazing IoC container. Jeremy claims that StructureMap is actually one of the first IoC containers in the .NET space. Although it has been […]
Read MoreAutomate, automate, automate. Why are you running manual tests? Automate them. If you are running manual tests, that is the smell of technical debt. Technical debt, I say! Automate them. If you can’t automate your tests, that is the smell of tightly coupled design and a failure to separate concerns in your application. Automate. And […]
Read MoreOne of the games we like here at Chez Star is the Pick A Number game. Pick a number between one and ten, between one and twenty, between one and one hundred. Definitely not rocket science, but we’re interacting and not watching TV, and sometimes it’s the best we can come up with. Last night’s […]
Read MoreI recently received the opportunity to reinstall my operating system on my work laptop. Good times, completely hosed. So I thought I would take a moment to document what went back onto my laptop after the format and reinstall. Essentially, this is my productivity tools list. Operating system Windows Vista. I’ll take some flack for […]
Read MorePatrick Smacchia wrote an excellent post on how you should partition your code in multiple assemblies. Because this is one of those subjects that i’m pretty opinionated about, i figured i’d quickly recap the valid and invalid reasons for creating assemblies that Patrick highlighted. Valid reasons for creating a new assembly: Tier separation: separating the […]
Read MoreIt appears that my geek is raising up a little clone. Ubernerd boy is well on his way to becoming a geek. We now have a deal: when 12 year old Mason can’t keep his mouth shut, and it’s desperately important that he do, I will say a code word. Being the cool and nice […]
Read MoreAnd why the heck does Outlook need to say 2 things to me? Upon further inspection, I must conclude it IS excessive. This is what could potentially show up in my system tray. Seriously, this is ridiculous.
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