My first article for Dotnetslackers.com is up. Here's an excerpt: In a typical multi-tier application, one of the biggest performance…
.NET Improve ODP.NET Performance (Mark A Williams, via Oracle Magazine) shows how Connection Pooling, Controlling Fetch Size, and Statement Caching…
In a previous article ("StringBuilder is not always faster), I provided some quick benchmark data and gave "rules of thumb"…
At least when it comes to instantiating objects. Even in today's environment, when the typical amount of RAM on each…
Is Lines of Code a good way to measure programmer output? Background First, some background: several studies (Sackman, Erikson, and…