This is going to sound so simple, so bear with me, but at the moment its becoming my personal mantra. There is a difference between the functionality of a system and the framework it runs in. Lets take a simple example, we have a process at work. Basically it gets a list of files from a databa... [More]

Technorati Tags: Coding, performance, optimisation, optimization I have a piece of code. It works quite hard, as its trying to summarise some data that's collected every second into 5 minute summaries. This involves reading about half a million rows (at the current time), grouping them into multipl... [More]

At some point in every applications lifecycle, you find the need to capture errors. Often you want these errors available in different locations.Corporate clients may want to pull the errors out of event logs. Software pubilshers want the errors back at head office. Users just don't want to kno... [More]

http://www.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pid=share.certification but before thathttp://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/default.asp