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Diary of a Death March: Steve's Story

January 23rd Has it been days? Weeks, even? I can't remember the last time I saw anything other than the slate gray cubicle walls surrounding my "office." Is "outside" even a thing anymore? What is "sunlight"? What day is it? Does it even matter what day it is? Course it

You Are Not Your Code

What gives code value? Does your code need to have meaning, a purpose, for you to have the necessary involvement to give your best effort? To what extent should we care about the usage for the code that we write? A lunch conversation with three of my coworkers prompted these

Dapper vs Entity Framework vs ADO.NET Performance Benchmarking

Just how fast is Dapper.NET compared to ADO.NET and Entity Framework? Let's find out! Download the sample project from GitHub to test on your machine.

The Bug Hunt From Hell (Or, Why You Shouldn't Forget About Caching)

We have an in-house media server that stores internal images, videos, etc. This project has many components, but the major ones are: * A database, where information about the media items is stored. * A service layer, which allows multiple apps to use the server and database. * A private site (which talks

The Ultimate Fate of All Software

Some realizations come slowly, but some hit you like a freight train. I had one of those this week while working on the latest change to the PAE system [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/designing-a-workflow-engine-database-part-1-introduction-and-purpose/] we've worked so hard on. It was a good change, one I was happy to implement

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