Continued from: BPlusTree 2.0 Changes Part 3 – AddRange and BulkInsert So all the previous updates took place back in April of this year. As I started to prepare to release a new drop of the BPlusTree I started having thoughts about an alternative storage format. So the update got shelved and I started working [...]
May 152012
I ran across another post of someone looking to get rid of WCF on StackOverflow today. The post titled “WCF replacement for cross process/machine communication” goes into the typical complaints about configuration of WCF. I actually think this is the least of the issues I’ve had with WCF. Whatever your reason for looking to abandon [...]
May 022012
Recently I ran across an article on the subject of Content Management Systems and their inability to separate content editing from content publishing. The article titled “EditingPublishingSeparation” by Martin Fowler is worth a read. I completely agree with his assertion that, from an architecture point of view, the editing and publishing of content should be [...]
Continued from: Part 2 – Enumerate Ranges and First/Last This is really the major piece of work in this release. There are a number of factors as to why these methods were added, but the foremost among them is performance when merging two sets of data. Before we go further let’s look at a typical [...]
Continued from: Part 1 – Interface Changes Enumerating Ranges I’ve been contacted several times about adding the ability to enumerate ranges from the b+tree. It’s actually a very trivial thing to implement and I’ve handed out the code several times. With this release the following range enumeration methods will be available: EnumerateFrom(TKey start) – Enumerate [...]
After much deliberation on the subject, I decided to introduce breaking changes interface. I know, I know, I don’t do this lightly, in fact I think it’s the third worse thing I could possible do (sorry it does follow adding bugs and semantic changes). So here are my reasons why I thought this was necessary: [...]
Apr 102012
I’ve recently seen some comments about various aspects of btree/b+tree structures that are troublesome. They are, IMHO, just plain wrong. Let’s look at a few of these and see if we can shed some light on b+trees and their implementations. 1. Items in a tree node must be presorted. FALSE This is simply not true, [...]
Sometimes it is necessary to generate a password. This might be done to create a secure account on a machine, or to reset a user’s password via email (although a one-time use security token is a much better answer). Another possible use is to generate passwords for your own use on a website. There are [...]
Mar 102012
I’m sure you havn’t missed me too much, but I’ve been away on extended vacation in Dragon’s Reach. SkyRim was a blast, and the most fun I’ve had playing a game since the original Portal. Now… back to the real world :(
How to build a multi-protocol REST service with protocol buffers, xml, and json in 10 minutes or less using protobuf-csharp-port
Nov 222011
In this post we are going to explore some great new features introduced in the latest release of the protobuf-csharp-port project. We are going to build both an IIS service to handle requests as well as a sample client. Let’s get started. Prerequisites Let’s start by fetching a copy of the protobuf-csharp-port binaries. We can [...]