This is going to be the final article in the series of articles on the life of IDE developers for databases. So in this part, I will spread the word about how the introduction of product analytics impacted some aspects of development.
This is the third article in the series of articles on the life of IDE developers for databases.
Its structure will be similar to the first one and the second one, even so, I am not going to tell you about the parsing of text. This article will present information on some tricks working with files and various problems of creating a big desktop application on the .NET platform.
This is the second piece from the series of articles about the life of database IDE developers. Its structure is similar to that of the previous article. Just like in the first one, I’ll talk about the issues we faced and the solutions we arrived at – both effective and not so much. To understand this article, you don’t have to read the first part in its entirety, but the first few paragraphs would be useful to help you grasp the context.
I’ve been working for a company that develops IDEs for database interaction for more than five years. Before starting to write this article, I had no idea how many fancy tales would lie ahead. Thus after making 30 pages of it, I decided to group up the tales thematically and divide the article into several parts.
This article comprises the second part of my speech at the multithreading meetup. You can have a look at the first part here. In the first part, I focused on the basic set of tools used to start a thread or a Task, the ways to track their state, and some additional neat things such as PLinq. In this part, I will fix on the issues you may encounter in a multi-threaded environment and some of the ways to resolve them. Read More
The need to do things in an asynchronous way – that is, dividing big tasks between multiple working units – was present long before the appearance of computers. However, when they did appear, this need became even more obvious. It is now 2019, and I’m writing this article on a laptop powered by an 8-core Intel Core CPU which, in addition to this, is simultaneously working on hundreds of processes, with the number of threads being even larger. Next to me, there lies a slightly outdated smartphone which I bought a couple of years ago – and it also houses an 8-core processor. Specialized web resources contain a wide variety of articles praising this year’s flagship smartphones equipped with 16-core CPUs. For less then $20 per hour, MS Azure can give you access to a 128-core virtual machine with 2 TB RAM. But, unfortunately, you cannot get the most out of this power unless you know how to control interaction between threads. Read More
Recently, I was involved in the development of the functionality that required a fast and frequent transfer of large volumes of data to disc. In addition, this data was supposed to be read from disk from time to time. Therefore, I was destined to find out the place, the way and the means for storing this data. In this article, I will briefly review the task, as well as investigate and compare solutions for completion of this task.
Context of the task: I work in a team that develops tools for relative database development (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle). The tool range includes both, standalone tools, and add-ins for MS SSMS.
Task: Restoring documents that were opened at the moment of IDE closing at the next start of IDE. Read More
GDI leak (or, simply the usage of too many GDI objects) is one of the most common problems. It eventually causes rendering problems, errors, and/or performance problems. The article describes how we debug this problem.
In 2016, when most programs are executed in sandboxes wherefrom even the most incompetent developer cannot harm the system, I am amazed to face the problem I will speak about in this article. Frankly speaking, I hoped that this problem had gone forever together with Win32Api. Nevertheless, I faced it. Before that, I just heard horror stories about it from old more experienced developers. Read More