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October 2008 - Posts

• Speed up PowerShell

  Jeffrey Snover just dropped this little gem into the " PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services " PDC session. Essentially there is an issue with the declarative nature of PowerShell's internals and how .NET Ngen's assemblies - which resulted in the Read More... Posted 30 October 2008 17:06 by howard.vanrooijen | 1 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, Performance

• PDC08 - Pre-Conference Sessions: Performance by Design using the .NET Framework - Part 3

  Memory Optimization in .NET When Memory Affects Time If your computation is not local, memory matters Cold start up: at first all code is from disk Disk can transfer at best 50mb/sec, worst 1meg/sec However OS caches disc (thus only new code is bad) Sluggishness Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 14:50 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC08, Performance

• PDC08 - Pre-Conference Sessions: Performance by Design using the .NET Framework - Part 2

  CPU Optimisation for .NET applications The second part of the pre-conference session was taken by Vance Morrison , a Performance Architect at Microsoft. How to Measure Low Tech: Stopwatch Medium Tech: Measure it Medium Tech: Event Tracing for Windows Read More... Posted 26 October 2008 21:06 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC08, Performance

• PDC08 - Pre-Conference Sessions: Performance by Design using the .NET Framework - Part 1

  The first part of the pre-conference was presented by Rico Mariani , the Chief Architect for Visual Studio. Here are my notes: Part 1 - Teaching Performance Culture Rule #1 - Measure - just thinking about what to measure will help you do a good job Rule Read More... Posted 26 October 2008 19:52 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, PDC08

• Conchango @ PDC 08

  Conchango is out in full force at PDC 2008 - Simon Bennett , Colin Bird , Paul Dawson , Simon Evans , Rob Grigg , Matt Mould and myself are all in attendance. Simon B, Colin and Paul are all presenting, whereas the rest of us will have a slightly less Read More... Posted 24 October 2008 16:08 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Community, PDC08