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May 2008 - Posts

20 Years Later IRC is Still Useful; Are You Taking Advantage of it?

Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 2:23 PM by RickM
This upcoming August the IRC protocol will officially be 20 years old. I think anyone would agree that it has weathered the years better than any other high level internet protocol. It does not suffer from the spam and abuse that have overtaken other Read More...
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Microsoft Research's DOLOTO Makes AJAX Twice as Fast

Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:29 PM by RickM
Microsoft Research has released some exciting information about a new tool being worked on by Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman . DOLOTO promises to greatly speed the loading of web applications. It does this by automatically making parts of the application Read More...
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Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application (.NET Memory Management: Part 4)

Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:11 PM by RickM
Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications. In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow Read More...
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Custom Serializing Objects for Use in a Debugger Visualizer

Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:02 PM by RickM
I have a new CodeProject article up which details how to make a Debugger Visualizer in the case where you need to custom serialize the object. The actual classes I build in the tutorial are only useful with our DotImage project line. However, the process Read More...
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Using PNG Predictors to Enhance GZIP/PKZIP/FLATE Compression

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 4:25 PM by RickM
I’ve been doing a lot of work in the PDF space lately. While implementing Binary Cross Reference Streams I was surprised to see that they could be encoded with PNG Predictors. This was surprising to me because binary cross reference streams aren’t images, Read More...
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