April 2008 - Posts

posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:48 PM by martin :: 1 Comments

The Big O

No, this isn't a post about Roy Orbison :-) I consider myself lucky to have had what you might call a classical education in software.  I mean, I was taught about principles rather than specific technologies.  That means I was exposed to lambda-calculus, Read More
posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:12 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Accommodating your Platform - OO Theorist vs. Windows Pragmatist

In my years at Microsoft, I spent a lot of time in the performance and scalability lab, helping developers to achieve the maximum amounts of performance and concurrency in their applications.  Because of all that experience, for me, it's a no-brainer Read More
posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:36 AM by martin :: (Comments Off)

Looking Forward

I was looking at the stats for my website in March.  The first month for ages where I didn't post anything to my blog, and the stats were higher than at any time I can remember.  Perhaps the way to drive my stats even higher is never to blog Read More