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February 2006 - Posts

• On optimising web content...

  One of the first tasks we’ve undertaken on my new project is a performance review of the legacy web application. Performance improvements are very rarely obtained by changing a single setting on a server (although this has been known) but are more generally Read More... Posted 23 February 2006 20:49 by howard.vanrooijen | 6 Comments Filed under: Tools, ASP.NET 2.0

• MonkeyWrangler - Making Simian more usable in Visual Studio

  In my last post I talked about integrating Simian into Visual Studio - as Mal commented the default output from Simian is not very Visual Studio friendly: Found 6 duplicate lines in the following files: Between lines 163 and 171 in D:\Projects\Conchango\Conchango.Gluon\Conchango.Gluon.Plugins.Interface\ConfigSettings.cs Read More... Posted 18 February 2006 14:11 by howard.vanrooijen | 11 Comments Filed under: .NET, Tools

• Detecting duplicate code with Simian

  [Update = see post " MonkeyWrangler - Making Simian more usable in Visual Studio " for deeper VS integration] One of the easiest “ code smells ” to deodorise is that of "duplicate code" - Simian is a Similarity Analyser that detects duplications in source Read More... Posted 08 February 2006 14:36 by howard.vanrooijen | 21 Comments Filed under: .NET, Tools