JustTrace makes profiling your application easy. Just follow these four steps and you will soon be on your way to identifying and removing memory leaks and performance issues. Keep in mind, profiling is best done regularly so you can detect unusual behavior early and avoid problems before they manifest. Follow these four steps to profile your applications with JustTrace: Assess, Acquire, Analyze, and Act. Step 1: Assess Determine what kind of issue you have. Is your application’s memory continuously growing while running? You have a memory leak. Do some parts of your application take too long to run? You have a performance...
On Tuesday night I visited and delivered a talk to the cohort at Launchub,
Bulgaria’s first software startup accelerator. Launchub is financed by a seed fund
made up of private and EU money. Launchub is hosted at a great co-work space, betahaus,
in downtown Sofia. It was great visiting betahaus and meeting the teams. I quickly
noticed that the Bulgarian accelerator is the exact opposite of AcceleratorHK;
in Bulgaria, the teams are engineering heavy, while in Hong Kong, the teams are business
people/designer heavy. Too bad we are too far away for a merger.
I delivered a talk titled: “Lessons Learned From a Career in Startups.”...
I just wanted to let everyone know that Telerik’s Q3 2012 Webinar Week is almost here. It will take place on Oct 22 – Oct 26 and we will be hosting NINE (9) webinars this time! This is your opportunity to see what is new in all our product lines and ask questions to the presenters live. You will be pleased to learn that our Windows 8 controls have become official in this release as well as full support for Visual Studio 2012 across our entire product line. I will be involved in the three webinars listed below. So what...
Browser developer tools have been around for quite some time now, yet a surprising amount of current, or people looking in to becoming, web developers are unaware of them. This is why I wanted to spend some time on creating a short series looking at, what I think, are the important items to know about these great tools. This is actually the last post out of the series with part one covering the element inspector ant network resources, and part two going over the scripts tab. Today I want to take a look in to the all mighty console which is...
Earlier this year we introduced two schemes showing the support life cycle of RadControls for WPF and RadControls for Silverlight. With this blog post we would like to remind you that with the Q3 2012 official release you will no longer receive future updates, new features and installations for WPF 3.5 and Silverlight 4 controls. Since the WPF 4.0 and Silverlight 5 have been around for quite some time now and the public trends are that they are already widely adopted (what is more .NET 4.5 along with WPF 4.5 are also alive), we truly believe that this step will...
How does mocking benefit me? That’s a question I hear a lot as I travel around the world giving talks. So before we dive into how to use a mocking tool like JustMock, let’s discuss why this is important and the benefit that mocking provides over other techniques like Fakes. In my post on Why SOLID Matters, we refactored a small piece of code to be more SOLID. Granted, it was a simplistic example, but good for illustrating several key points on SOLID. We will continue using the same code to discuss the benefits of Mocking. As a refresher, we ended...
Telerik’s Q3 Webinar Week is coming up next week, and Test Studio will be closing out the week with a webinar on “Taking Your Functional Tests to the Next Level.” The webinar is on Friday, 26 Oct., at 11am US Eastern time. In that webinar I’ll be showing you how to work with more complex locators—and where Xpath makes good sense! I’ll also be showing you some of the tricks I’ve blogged about here for making flexible queries in to tables to get data independent of where that data hits. You’ll find out how to create find logic that works ...
Like much of the writing I do these days, the idea for this blog post was sparked by an innocuous-looking tweet from Justin King: In his tweet, Justin was referring to the Stock History demo we built to showcase Kendo UI DataViz: The Stock History demo charts and displays...
Microsoft has recently released their latest technology helping the N-Tier development – the ASP.NET Web API framework. If you haven’t had the opportunity to experience this new platform built around the HTTP protocol, here we try to address some of the key points about Web API services as answers to the most common questions you might be already asking: What is Web API? ASP.NET Web API is the latest platform provided by Microsoft for creating HTTP-based services. When can I use Web API? The Web API framework is not limited to any kind of architecture. You can build REST services on top of it or...