Speed up debugging in Visual Studio

Wow I realized why i was grumpy. Single stepping through my code was taking up to 5 seconds per step. I think I forgot what I was doing after stepping through 10 lines. Obviously not effective so I devoted some time to figure this out. Stripped Visual Studio down to bare bones and then figured out the biggest culprits:

• Unload unnecessary projects.
• Delete .suo and user files to get them recreated.
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• Assigned ctrlshift-q to ReSharper_ToggleSuspended - Temporarily disable resharper - makes debugging much faster

Comet for web

With the move of our application to the web - we have to achieve the same level of interactivity that people expected from a desktop app in the new web app. To achieve this - there are some very clever things you can do in order to do this. We are experimenting with comet technology - a long poll from the browser that is light weight enough and if designed properly in the server doesn't use a lot of server resources. This long poll allows us to push stuff from the server to the client very effectively. Pretty neat and also interesting to see the creativity that people have in making things work the way they were never intended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

The Mystery of Consciousness

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580394,00.html

Stephen Hawking may have a point - i hope not

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=10184

 

Uber

Uber cool.

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/library/AsteriskIAXClientWrapper.asp

 

Asterisk is taking the world by storm.

fun

Wouldn’t take it too seriously though J neat if you have a picture handy.

http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/

 

Firefox and outlook

If you use both together, you will need this:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=821692

 

vmware server released - free!

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

The only way to run your servers and even your own personal Windows.

very good freeware list

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/

Java .net interop

Now this is interesting – very useful if you need to bridge the two environments.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/JavaDOTNETIntegrate.asp