December 2004 Entries
Rico Mariani (Performance Architect for MS) has done it again. He has a great new post on tracking down managed memory leaks. His blog is a wealth of information on performance tuning in .NET
Before you get nervous, you probably already know this. When passing a reference type ByVal, it's really the reference that is passed by value. Somehow, I keep running into developers that are surprised to find this out. This post is a short article that explains the gory details. Just for fun, the example uses a beer bottle as the object being passed. Please no comments on my choice of brand! ...
Apparently, I did not get on the right line when they handed out the “Need2Blog” gene. Seems like every place I go, people are busy blogging.. “blogging from devdays”, “blogging from work”, “blogging from the bathroom” I just have not been able to catch the “MustBlogEveryDay” bug, much to the chagrin of others (sorry Miguel!). So if anyone knows where I can pick up a good Need2Blog gene (new or used), please let me know! ...