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1. Hyperthreading Explained

   Near the end of .NET Rocks show #582 Richard Campbell explains hyperthreading in such a way that I feel like a hardware expert.

   The guest, Scott Hanselman, has a 6 core hyperthreaded processor, which shows up at 12 cores in Windows Task Manager. How many cores does this CPU actually …

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2. Acer Aspire One - fix for running very slow

   After reformatting Allison's Acer Aspire One netbook for the third time, and it suddenly running really slow again shortly after the last reformat,  It seems I found a fix for the problem: http://blog.ryankopf.com/2009/02/acer-aspire-one-running-slow-no-more.html Thank you, Ryan Kopf, whoever you are :)

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3. Thought's on Greg Youngs Command/Query Separation

   I really enjoyed watching this video on domains and command/query separation:

   http://www.infoq.com/presentations/greg-young-unshackle-qcon08

   Here are the short quotes that had the greatest meaning to me:

   • State transitions are an important part of our problem space and should be modeled within our domain.
     • My thoughts: instead …

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4. NHibernate with LINQ: Error with String Comparisons in VB.NET

   If you're in VB.NET using LINQ to NHibernate and you get this error on a simple query:

   System.ArgumentException : Expression of type 'System.Int32' cannot be used for return type 'System.Boolean'

   Then I've got an explanation and a fix for you.

   Here's a query that will produce this …

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5. Domain Driven Design (DDD): An Exercise in Value Objects

   I'm reading the Eric Evans book on DDD and wanted to catalogue some notes as I'm going through it to help me clarify and solidify what I'm picking up from the book.

   DDD, as I understand it, encourages programmers to build a rich domain model of a system that is …

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6. Ignorance Is Bliss...

   ...in the short term. In the long run, usually not so much.

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7. Learn Something New Every Day

   Timmy, my eight year old son, was going to feed the fish and couldn't get the cover off the can. So he turned it sideways to get better leverage, and pulling hard, succeeded in getting the cover off. The can, being sideways, dumped its flakey contents on the counter.

   I …

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8. You've gone too far...

   How do you know how far you can take something until you've taken it too far… at least once?

   This little "proverb" (if I can call it that) has limited applicability, and could be grossly misapplied, but has some relevance to what I'm currently working on. At the moment I'm …

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9. Smarter Computers

   Warning: this post is a rambling whose content to noise ratio may be quite low.

   Follow along with me as I consider a simplistic view of a little piece of software. The point of this story is how many little pieces of information have to be collected, and how quickly …

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10. Great Introduction to SOLID Principles

    A while back I started noticing the word "SOLID" showing up on various good tech blogs. SOLID is an acronym describing five good software development principles.

    When Scott Hanselman interviewed "Uncle Bob" with his latest podcast, I was excited to see it. Listening to it was no disappointment – it's a …

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11. Breaking Facets out of an Entity

    I found this article insightful. Since taking IDesign's Architect's Master Class this past summer I've been putting more thought into what constitutes a "facet" of a system that should be pulled into its own class in the name of the Single Responsibility Principle. The article develops some basic "why's" along …

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