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Silverlight Performance Tip: WindowLess is an Anomaly by zeddy

Once again, ol’ Masykur reminded me of something in this comment : that I could boost the performance by setting “windowless” to false. I did try this option before deploying, but it caused the right-click menu not to appear. And that is something that...

Silverlight Performance Tip: Set NULL and Clear your Children when Hiding by zeddy

In the old version, we kept all pages in memory. Then we decided to “hide” unseen pages by offloading them from memory to Isolated Storage. So we thought, yaayyy, lesser memory… NOT. This boggles our mind, and after extensive testing, the following code...

Silverlight Performance Tip: Prevent WebClient Memory Leak by zeddy

We used a lot of WebClient to download resources (images .jpg + vector .zin). When I flipped to the Next Page and destroyed all WebClient objects, the memory is not going down. Hmm, what happens? Actually this is a common bug in .NET, not specific to...

Silverlight Performance Tip: 15 is better than the default 60 by zeddy

Thanks to Masykur (MVP ASP.NET – Indonesia) for pointing this out: Silverlight ePaper causes high CPU usage when hovering mouse over the text. I have the solution to that (and a video to prove it), but first let me blame Microsoft for this point: Silverlight...

How NHProf & LINQ Saved My Day by zeddy

Recently Armanovers were asked to migrate a module from Oracle Forms Builder to an ASP.NET + AJAX web app for PoC (Proof-of-Concepts) purposes. Because of the short timeframe (5 days), we decided to use Castle ActiveRecord for the Data Access Layer. Turns...
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Silverlight Developers: You need to Learn WinDbg and SOS! by zeddy

There is no Yellow Icon (Exception) in my Internet Explorer when running Kompas ePaper , but my Visual Studio Output Window throws out these exceptions: I tried hunting down the FileNotFoundException for 2 weeks without success. I thought I can get the...

Nice Free Tool to Monitor SQL Server by zeddy

This is really a nice free tool to know if your hardware is up-to-task for your SQL Server… These graphs are awesome: 1. The bottleneck is always in hard disk. Is it fast enough to find the index? 2. You know you have problems if your SQL keeps reading...
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Refactoring: C# String Literal dan Regex by zeddy

Andra menulis kode ini untuk mencari “Clickable URL” di Kompas ePaper: Saya sangat tidak suka dengan penggunaan ‘+’ untuk string concatenation karena: style coding-nya jadi mirip VB (sengaja, biar programmer VB panas :P) keasikan pake ‘+’, orang jadi...

Depok tidak lagi ketinggalan, 3Mbps dgn 500rb/bln, goodbye Speedy :) by zeddy

***UPDATE Sabtu 20 Juni: Lumayan sore-sore dapet 5Mbps chu: ***End Update   Ini adalah hasil SpeedTest untuk koneksi saya yg menggunakan Telkom Speedy, paket LOAD dgn membayar 300rb/bulan : “ Paket LOAD (Unlimited 512 kbps) Dengan kecepatan 512 kbps...

Using Fiddler with localhost, and force any localhost traffic to a proxy… by zeddy

Network debugging tool seperti Fiddler selalu tidak bisa melihat traffic untuk address localhost atau 127.0.0.1 karena di IE dan .NET local address selalu ignore proxy setting.   Solusi-nya biasanya adalah dengan menggunakan machine name… ah, tapi...
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On Staying Competitive – Protecting your Silverlight outputs (and other .NET Assemblies) from Copy-Pasters by zeddy

Ini baru kepikiran kemarin… sebenarnya selama ini saya tidak begitu care tentang .NET Obfuscation dan teknik anti-reverse-engineer lainnya… well, karena sebelum ini mindset-nya begini: Area project masih Windows Forms, jadi DLL akan selalu terjaga di...

Google Latitude menghemat waktu Pulang… Bye-bye NusaMap by zeddy

Kemarin waktu ke Bandung, istri saya membeli peta yang ditawarkan ibu-ibu di pinggir jalan (entah kasihan atau memang butuh)… peta itu kami gunakan untuk mengunjungi saudara istri saya yang berada di sekitar Cicaheum. Lumayan berguna. Sepulangnya dari...

1 Terabytes Database, Aplikasi Lambat, Salah Siapa dan Gimana Solusinya? by zeddy

*Disclaimer: ini semua dilihat dari kacamata Aplikasi (Developer/Architect), dan bukan dari kacamata Data (Database Administrator). Di tempat saya consulting, lagi ada perdebatan seru nih: database di customer sudah mencapai lebih dari 1 Terabytes , dan...

On Reflection defeating encapsulation & how to prevent Reflection from accessing private fields by zeddy

Ini sebenarnya isu lama, bahkan om A.K. sudah mem-posting di tahun 2005, Reflection Sebagai Penjahat Perang Pelanggar OO. Saya sempat menaruh comment disana tapi mungkin tidak meng-elaborasinya… jadi saya mau bikin ini permanen di blog biar next time...
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Snots: There is No Shortcut to be a Better (and Great) Developer by zeddy

Terinspirasi oleh “ThinkWeek Paper” yg ditulis oleh developer-developer Microsoft dan dibaca oleh Bill Gates selama 1 minggu Nyepi di cottage -nya, saya tertarik mengumpulkan beberapa thoughts saya ke dalam suatu tulisan yg level-nya lebih formal di atas...
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