Last month Microsoft published a white paper about profiling Windows Store apps. The paper is very detailed and provides rich information how to build CLR profiler for Windows Store apps. I was very curious to read it because at the time when we released JustTrace Q3 2012 there was no documentation. After all, I was …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Profiling Tools and Standardization
Imagine you have the following job. You have to deal with different performance and memory issues in .NET applications. You often get questions from your clients “Why my application is slow and/or consumes so much memory?” along with trace/dump files produced by profiling tools from different software vendors. Yeah, you guess it right – your …
Rants on Education
In this post I am going to share my thoughts about the education and some of the current educational approaches. I was provoked by an article by I. V. Arnold published in the Russian magazine Математическое просвещение year 1936, issue #8. The article was about choosing a winning strategy for the following game (I don’t …
Invention and Innovation
This is an old topic but I would like to write a post on it. One of the common arguments is that an idea that doesn’t change the behavior of the people is only an invention, not an innovation. Here is a quote from Wikipedia: Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the …