Benefits with C++ in modern apps
Why would one want to use C++ when developing modern applications for Windows? A lot of developers see C++ as an old, aging, clumsy giant. Why program using C++ when…
Slow performing Chrome browser on windows 8.1
A little tip if you, like me, are experience the chrome browser as sluggish and close to non working. I first started to notice that when you type in text…
Async Servlets
It is now about four and a half years since the Servlet 3.0 specification was released in December 2009, together with Java EE 6. One feature that came in Servlet…
IntelliJ IDEA performance improvement
Working as a consultant, it is not unusual that I am referred to customer specific software environment with regard to computers, operating systems, networks and other configurations. However, since I…
Dapper-dot-net aka Micro-ORM
a simple object mapper for .NET After listening to Hanselminutes show #262 I became curious and have looked a bit at Dapper to check what it really is. First of…
How to debug a short hang
What can I do? When Bob the tester comes, and tells me that the client application sometimes hangs for about 30 seconds, when Bob is doing nothing. This client, and…
Automated Testing is Like Optimizing
I have my roots in the Atari demo scene, so I know the joys of optimizing the inner-loop of a software texture mapper down to the last assembly instruction. The…
Developing JMeter plugins using Maven
I have been using JMeter for load testing and I needed to create a custom plugin to handle parsing JSON results but I couldn't find a simple guide how to do this. I wanted a simple solution that didn't require manual installation in my repository or a repository manager such as Nexus.
Performance nightmare
22 to 0.3 seconds! I found a simple solution to a very common problem. While profiling I found that remove in this little method took a lot of the time.…
Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Singleton
Enterprise applications and mobile applications have quite different requirements. Starting an enterprise application is just something you do once before it continue running for months or years. On the other…
Queued Background Tasks for Cocoa
The megahertz race is over, and instead we get more execution cores. This means that we as developers must make our applications parallel, in order to take advantage of the…
Regular Expressions and Cocoa
Regular expressions is a powerful tool for solving many problems related to text. It can be misused as any good tool, but there are moments when they are the best…
Adding Sorted Inserts to Cocoa Arrays
NSArray and NSMutableArray have methods for sorting arrays, NSArray returns new sorted arrays and NSMutableArray can be sorted in place. The sort methods comes in three flavours; using a function,…
Squid, the caching proxy
I just checked out the old Squid again, the worlds most famous caching proxy. If you direct all your web access through the Squid proxy server, it will cache stuff…