Οκτώβριος 2009 - Δημοσιεύσεις

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Τετάρτη, 21 Οκτωβρίου 2009 10:19 πμ από Dimitris Papadimitriou :: 0 σχόλια

Finally! Create Project, Add New Item and Add Reference dialogs are fast!

I just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 on my machine. I only had little time to play with it so far but I'm so excited! Finally dialog boxes are fast! I never understood so far why 'Create New Project' and 'Add New Item' were so slow in previous versions! Any why 'Add Reference' was opening .NET Assembly tab by default and not Project tab.
Guess what! Huge improvement in VS 2010! Dialogs open extremely fast and Add Reference shows Project tab by default now. And even if you press COM or .NET tabs they are rendered in a few milliseconds!
Startup time of Visual Studio itself seems also improved!

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Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Παρασκευή, 16 Οκτωβρίου 2009 9:29 πμ από Dimitris Papadimitriou :: 0 σχόλια

CNET TechTracker - Scan your computers for new software versions

CNET TechTracker (www.download.com) can help you get notifications when a new version of software installed on your machine is released! It really works! You can configure to automatically run on windows tray and check for new software daily, weekly, monthly or manually. I suppose that this is possible only for software being distributed over download.com, but this is fairly big software database!
The results are reported to you with a tray notification or on the web. I've seen other applications like this one in the past, but none from such an important vendor like CNET. I suggest you try it out! See part of the results for my PC...

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Τρίτη, 13 Οκτωβρίου 2009 9:25 μμ από Dimitris Papadimitriou :: 0 σχόλια

E-commerce modules for DotNetNuke

Some time ago I was involved in a project of creating an online store for a Greek firm. The store was to be implemented using dotnetnuke. I made a research back then to find what was the most appropriate dotnetnuke module for that particular case. I run into a blog post which was presenting some, but the most interesting part was the comments under it. If you search you will find a couple of mine also there.
Its been several months now that I keep getting notifications about new comments on that post. The discussion goes on and on... Its quite interesting, have a look...

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Δημοσιεύτηκε στις Σάββατο, 10 Οκτωβρίου 2009 10:20 πμ από Dimitris Papadimitriou :: 0 σχόλια

Use REST and let others do the caching for you

I run into an (one year) old article of Udi Dahan today. He explains how REST can be used to scale up an application, of course without the need to add additional hardware. The idea is simple. If you have a SOAP web service that thousants of clients call, then a common practice would be to add caching behind it, in order to avoid hitting your database (or other resources) for each request. Common and cheap practice that works up to some extend. However, If you use REST instead of SOAP for your service, then

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