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How to Build Your First .NET Graph Database

There has been a lot of talking about NoSQL lately, and how this "new" databases can solve problems of Big Data. NoSQL is a movement that promotes alternatives...

0 replies - 2153 views - 03/13/13 by Damaris Coll in Articles

7 Programmer Recruiting Mistakes

We’ve all met them. The programmers that can’t program. They can hardly write anything that compiles on their own. Producing quality quality code is...

4 replies - 24492 views - 06/25/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

When Should I Use An ORM?

I think like everyone, I go through the same journey whenever I find out about a new technology.. Huh? –> This is really cool –> I use it everywhere...

4 replies - 13523 views - 06/25/12 by Mike Hadlow in Articles

Blind Sharding with RavenDB

From the get go, RavenDB was designed with sharding in mind. We had a sharding client inside RavenDB when we shipped, and it made for some really cool...

0 replies - 2431 views - 03/19/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Cross-platform .NET - try it!

I was using the .NET platform since its early release. Since then, I worked primarily on a Windows machine and never had much interest in switching platforms -...

0 replies - 5430 views - 02/12/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

How to Set Up a Local NuGet Gallery

First of all you may be wondering, why do I want my own local Nuget Gallery? Well, here are two reasons: Having your own NuGet server is perfect for when...

0 replies - 4121 views - 02/06/12 by Michael Ceranski in News

Embracing RavenDB

In fact, for over 30 years or so, the Database Wars have been settled, the relational databases have won the fight, and the decision left was which...

0 replies - 2657 views - 02/02/12 by Ayende Rahien in News

Bug Hunt: What made this blog slow?

A while ago the blog start taking 100% CPU on the client machines. Obviously we were doing something very wrong there, but what exactly was it? We tracked...

0 replies - 1865 views - 01/30/12 by Ayende Rahien in News

Working with Inline Web Workers

In the past I wrote a post about what are Web Workers. In short, Web Workers enable web developers to run JavaScript code in the background which might...

0 replies - 1866 views - 01/29/12 by Gil Fink in News

Changing Team Foundation Server 2010 Workspace Mappings

When you place a Visual Studio solution into TFS or pull it down for the first time a default working path is set in the workspace mappings.  There are...

0 replies - 2702 views - 01/26/12 by Tim Murphy in News

Convention based IoC configuration

What's your favorite IoC container framework? For quite long time I stick to Ninject. First time I read about it in Steve Sanders ASP.NET MVC2 book and it's...

0 replies - 2037 views - 01/24/12 by Alexander Beletsky in News

Introducing Visual Studio Achievements - Bringing Some Game To The Code

Another awesome stuff for developers from Microsoft! This past Wednesday Microsoftie Karsten Januszewski announced the Visual Studio Achievement Beta at...

1 replies - 1960 views - 01/22/12 by Prashant Khandelwal in News

A meta post about negative code reviews

A lot of people seems to have problems whenever I post a code review. The general theme of the comments is mostly along the lines of: You are an evil person...

0 replies - 1689 views - 01/15/12 by Ayende Rahien in News

Garbage Collection in The Age of Smart Pointers

A few days ago I was asked on Twitter whether research into garbage collection is paying off, considering the super-smart-pointers introduced into C++ and...

1 replies - 1655 views - 01/13/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in News

On Infinite Scalability

Udi Dahan posted about the myth of infinite scalability. It is a good post, and I recommend reading it. I have my own 2 cents to add, though. YAGNI! When ...

0 replies - 1868 views - 01/05/12 by Ayende Rahien in News