Introducing Squirrel for Windows – Paul Betts announces the public beta release of Squirrel for Windows, a ‘simplest thing that actually works’ installer for Windows based applications created in any language.
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Confusing errors for a confusing feature, part two – Eric Lippert shares the second part of his latest poser, looking at the solution to a name resolution challenge which is seemingly impossible until you understand one of the less well know rules of name resolution.
Quote of the week – hard things – Bob looks at the origin of one of the most famous quotes in programming, and discusses caching, naming and off by one errors
.NET Just in Time Compilation and Warming up Your System – Abhinaba Basu discusses the process of warming up a system when it is latency sensitive and some of the techniques for performing this before looking in depth at the way in which the CLR JIT actually works.
Inception-Style Nested Data Formats – Scott Hanselman discusses some of the funkier data formats that exist, including a look at IBM’s JSONx format which takes JSON and turns it into XML.
Finally… JavaScript source line info in a dump – Brad L highlights a useful new feature of the Windows 8.1 SDK debugger that allows you to investigate JavaScript code down to the line and column in the debugger making identifying performance problems much easier
One Week in F# – Phil Trellford stands in for Sergey Tihon with a post following the themes of Sergey’s F# Weekly, a great resource for anyone with a keen interest in F#