Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
I’m m taking another busman’s holiday and attending Going Native 2012. Like my GPU Technology Conference trip a few years ago this is a geek vacation rather than work for Microsoft. Although bizaarly it’s taking place at the Microsoft Conference Center on campus, it feels a little weird ...
Tags: agile, C#, Events
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Someone asked me how to get intellisense working with CUDA files. So here’s a quick post on the couple of simple steps it takes to get it working…
The following assumes you’ve setup a CUDA project with the correct include paths and it builds correctly.
Tags: C#, GPGPU, Visual Studio
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
So after the dust has settled and I’m back in not quite so sunny Seattle what were the highlights from GTC? Keynotes: 3D and the Cure for Cancer I was really impressed by the keynotes and wish I could have stayed for the final one on Thursday evening ...
Tags: C#, GPGPU, San Jose
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
I ran into a couple of issues when writing an F# class to be consumed by C#. Specifically when it came to adding attributes to a property declared on an interface. You would expect the following code to decorate the SofteningLength property with the Dependency and DefaultValue attributes: ...
Tags: C#, F#, Gotchas, Mixed languages, Unity
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
I’ve been using xUnit.net to run some basic acceptance tests. Obviously xUnit is a unit test framework first and foremost but I don’t have a problem with reusing the framework provided you’re really clear about which tests are unit tests and which tests are not. I created an AcceptanceTest ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Continuous integration, TDD, xUnit
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
In part 1 and part 2 of my thread on C# optimization there was a lot of talk about algorithms and the like. The next two posts take a different tack… first re-implementing the same algorithm using different languages and then in a different language and hardware. It turns out ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Concurrency, NBody.net, Parallel Computing, Performance
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
A long while back I wrote about An alternative to the C# generic new() constraint using anonymous delegates to provide a mechanism for constructing an object which did not support a parameterless constructor. I’ve updated the same post to show an improved syntax using lambda expressions.
Tags: C#, Coding
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I happened to come across the following code the other day. string cost = "FR" + "E" + "E"; // bad perf = true J
Which, after my performance investigation the other day, got me wondering again. Is there performance really going to be ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Performance
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Last night I was playing around with a vector class that's part of a scientific computation code I've been working on. It's a long story more on that later but it means I've found some of my own time to write code in. Anyway... The Vector class uses the automatically ...
Tags: C#, Coding, Performance
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I was mucking around with code snippets over the weekend - it killed the time in between feeling sick. As my unit testing framework of choice is XUnit I thought I've have a go at adding a snippet or two around that.
xUnit already comes with a nice code snippet for ...
Tags: C#, Code snippets, TDD, Visual Studio, xUnit
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