Gigs and gigs of happy memory

robrohr — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:23:00 GMT

I just bumped my dev machine's memory (which is also hosting this blog) from 1 Gig of RAM up to 4 Gigs RAM.

For the past few months, I would spend a majority of my time with 1 - 1.5 Gigs memory in use, which meant constant swapping to the page file (slooooooowwww).

Now with RAM quadrupled, I can cruise at 1 Gig memory in use without needing to even make a cursory glance over at the page file for approval.

I think this merits a "Squeeeee!"

Enterprise Library: Patterns and Practices Hands-on Labs

robrohr — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:20:00 GMT

A month or two ago, I attended most of the web-casts for the Enterprise Library 1.0: Application Blocks from MSDN. Very interesting. I have a few projects that could benefit from these items. Although MS has made it excedingly easy for us to download and implement these (free) products, I wasn't able to get over the hump and do anything other than download the code for implementation later.

I found out two weeks ago that you can download the Enterprise Library 1.0 Hands on Labs, which includes 8 labs in C# and VB.Net introducing the various application blocks. (30-60 minutes per lab). Somehow, this still didn't get me off my duff and into the application blocks.

Now, at TechEd, I see that Hands on Lab DEV014 is making it even easier on me.

Discover the seven new application blocks featured in Enterprise Library with this hands-on lab in which you learn how these new application blocks will help you to build enterprise class applications more quickly than ever before. Labs are included for data access, exception handling, configuration management, security, crypto and logging.

If I don't do it now when they are practically injecting the knowledge into my brain like filling into a Twinkie(TM), I am beyond hope.

Ooh, look! A twinkie!

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Gigs and gigs of happy memory

Enterprise Library: Patterns and Practices Hands-on Labs