March 2008 - Posts

• Po man's patchworkin'

  Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:03 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  If you had come of age before Component Object Model as I have, the concept of COM registration seemed rather odd at first glance. Why is your system limited to exactly one application extension which is forced to be backwards-compatible, when, for years, Read More by Brian Donahue | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Optimize Prime

  Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:09 PM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Ever since the dark ages of programming, certain tricks have been implemented in code compilers to eke out the maximum performance from the compiled code, the most important of which is inlining. Put simply, inlining is the process by which a child method Read More by Brian Donahue | 0 Comments | Comment on this post

• Exceptionally expensive

  Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:09 PM | 1 Comments
  
  

  Many years ago, when switching from programming in plain old C to the managed environment of .NET Framework, I had discovered exceptions.  The idea was not completely new to me because I'd already seen try/catch blocks in JavaScript and I liked that Read More by Brian Donahue | 1 Comments | Comment on this post Attachment(s): ExceptionTest.Png