Software Best Practices

A month ago or so one of the most exciting new feaures of the upcoming Mono 2.2 was introduced: the C# Evaluator . (Although now, with the new Mono.SIMD, static compilation and so on, I'm not sure which one is the most exciting piece anymore?) Since then I wanted to blog about it to share my thoughts...

I’m going to talk about an issue I had with remoting a few days ago when handling a specific scenario with a server and a client. You know remoting is no longer the newest and cooler technology out there, since WCF is being there for a while, but AFAIK we don’t have WCF yet on Mono, which means it simply...

To blob or not to blob... good question! I guess if you develop data intensive applications dealing with large files at some point, you've thought about it at least once: should I put my data files inside the database or should I write them directly to disk? There are a number of interesting links...

Which is the fastest way to decompress ZIP files (fragments actually) using C#? I tried with SharpZipLib vs zlib.net vs a wrapper on top of zlib 1.2.3. Which one is faster? I tried with the same test file, repeating 1000 times and these are the results: $ time mono unzip.exe file ziplib 1000 real 0m4...