VS2010 Large Solution Bottle Neck
24 May 2012Recently I looked into speeding up Visual Studio builds – I found the results interesting… I decided to do a few POC’s to see where the bottleneck is with large solutions in Visual Studio.
May, 2012
XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D and Ashish Ghoda, O'Reilly Media
20 May 2012Another XAML reference book.
XAML Developer Reference by Mamta D, Ashish Ghoda; O'Reilly Media
20 May 2012This book is exactly what its title says - a reference book for XAML. It covers all major areas of XAML related programming - focussing mostly on WPF and Silverlight.
April, 2012
SQL Source Control – Why buy the DB products and go through their Webinar
26 April 2012Before I go into the contents of this post I would like to give a quick disclaimer – I have been asked to give review of the SQL Source Control webinar, my payment of the review is a free license of SQL Source Control from Red Gate. It’s great to...
More NASM with GVim
09 April 2012Today I spent a good part of my day getting to grips with the stack and nasm. After looking at my notes on nasm I think this is one area for the course I am doing they could focus more on… So here are some snippets I have put together...
Getting to grips with the stack in nasm
09 April 2012Today I spent a good part of my day getting to grips with the stack and nasm. After looking at my notes on nasm I think this is one area for the course I am doing they could focus more on… So here are some snippets I have put together...
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 8 – Wireless Networking
07 April 2012After reading this section you should be able to Explain how nodes exchange wireless signals Identify potential obstacles to successful transmission and their repercussions, such as interference and reflection Understand WLAN architecture Specify the characteristics of popular WLAN transmission methods including 802.11 a/b/g/n Install and configure wireless access points and...
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 12 – Networking Security
07 April 2012After reading this section you should be able to Identify security risks in LANs and WANs and design security policies that minimize risks Explain how physical security contributes to network security Discuss hardware and design based security techniques Understand methods of encryption such as SSL and IPSec, that can secure...
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 10 – In Depth TCP IP Networking
07 April 2012After reading this section you should be able to Explain how nodes exchange wireless signals Identify potential obstacles to successful transmission and their repercussions, such as interference and reflection Understand WLAN architecture Specify the characteristics of popular WLAN transmission methods including 802.11 a/b/g/n Install and configure wireless access points and...
Driven2Distraction – New South African Developer Podcast
06 April 2012For those out there that are interested… I am now one of the hosts of the Driven2Distraction podcast. Being a fan of podcasts like .Net Rocks and Hanselminutes for years now, I have always wanted to be involved in the recording of a podcast and now that time has finally...
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 15 – Network Management
06 April 2012After reading this section you should be able to Understand network management and the importance of documentation, baseline measurements, policies, and regulations to assess and maintain a network’s health. Manage a network’s performance using SNMP-based network management software, system and event logs, and traffic-shaping techniques Identify the reasons for and...
Computer Networks UNISA - Chap 14 – Insuring Integrity and Availability
06 April 2012After reading this section you should be able to Identify the characteristics of a network that keep data safe from loss or damage Protect an enterprise-wide network from viruses Explain network and system level fault tolerance techniques Discuss issues related to network backup and recovery strategies Describe the components of...
Getting App.config to be configuration specific in VS2010
04 April 2012I recently wanted to have a console application that had configuration specific settings. For instance, if I had two configurations “Debug” and “Release”, depending on the currently selected configuration I wanted it to use a specific configuration file (either debug or config).
Agile Retrospectives by Derby, Larsen and Schwaber, Pragmatic Bookshelf
01 April 2012When I originally read this book I did a review saying it was a light weight read and that it was good for an introduction of the purpose of Agile Retrospectives.
March, 2012
Writing multiple lines of text to the console in nasm
31 March 2012In it’s simplest form… the following asm code should work
Computer Arithmetic - Binary for Decimal Numbers
21 March 2012This may be of use to someone else doing this course…
Organizations and Architecture UNISA Studies – Chap 7
17 March 2012Learning Outcomes Name different device categories Discuss the functions and structure of I/.O modules Describe the principles of Programmed I/O Describe the principles of Interrupt-driven I/O Describe the principles of DMA Discuss the evolution characteristic of I/O channels Describe different types of I/O interface Explain the principles of point-to-point and...
Organization and Architecture UNISA Studies – Chap 13
17 March 2012Learning Outcomes Explain the advantages of using a large number of registers Discuss the way in which compilers optimize register usage Discuss the evolution of CISC machines Describe the characteristics of RISC architecture Discuss the RISC vs. CISC controversy Describe the way in which RISC and CISC design principles can...
Organization and Architecture UNISA Studies – Chap 6
15 March 2012Learning Outcomes Discuss the physical characteristics of magnetic disks Describe how data is organized and accessed on a magnetic disk Discuss the parameters that play a role in the performance of magnetic disks Describe different optical memory devices Magnetic Disk The way data is stored on and retried from magnetic...
Organization and Architecture UNISA Studies – Chap 5
15 March 2012Learning Outcomes Describe the operation of a memory cell Explain the difference between DRAM and SRAM Discuss the different types of ROM Explain the concepts of a hard failure and a soft error respectively Describe SDRAM organization Semiconductor Main Memory The two traditional forms of RAM used in computers are...
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