Amazon SimpleWorkflow (abbreviated to SWF from here on) is a workflow service provided by Amazon which allows you to model business processes as workflows using a task based programming model. The service provides reliable task dispatch and state management so that you can focus on developing ‘workers’ to perform the tasks that are required to …
Making Amazon SimpleWorkflow simpler to work with Read More »
.Net 4.5 introduced a handy little new method Comparer<T>.Create to aid the creation of bespoke comparers, which is great because it means that you don’t have to define a new Comparer class when it is going to be needed once. In case you’re wondering, it’s still not possible to define anonymous implementation of interfaces in …
LINQ OrderBy – using Comparer<T>.Create and F#’s Object Expressions Read More »
To celebrate the arrival of a new year, we have launched a number of new years in Here Be Monsters. New Trophy System First off, we have introduced a new Trophy system into the game which gives you milestones to aim for as you’re freely exploring the game, not to mention a tidy bit of …
Here Be Monsters – New Trophy system, automatic Fences and more items! Read More »
It’s that time of the year again and here in the world of Here Be Monsters things are getting interesting too. From 17th December to new years day, as you come into the game every day you’ll get a +15 luck (which significantly boosts your chance of catching tough monsters) as well as limited editions …
Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL and released version 1.0.7 of the library to Nuget, here’s a list of the changes: fixed a bug with LIMIT when there is insufficient number of elements using the DynamoDBContext. added support for counting the number of matching items with …
NOTE: if you’re unfamiliar with how PostSharp works under the hood, I highly recommend that you check out Dustin Davis‘ excellent PostSharp Principles series of blog posts here. The Problem The new async/await keywords in C# are pretty awesome, and makes life an awful lot easier when writing asynchronous and non-blocking IO code. However, for …
AOP – using PostSharp attributes with async Task/Task<T> methods Read More »
Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL to: Add support for specifying the ScanIndexForward option(see DynamoDB API doc here for detail) in a Query operation using an optional “ORDER” clause Fixed a bug where when querying using the extension methods on the DynamoDBContext class, the LIMIT clause …
Just a quick note to say that I have updated the JSON serializers benchmark to use the latest Nuget versions of ServiceStack.Text, Json.Net and JsonFX. I have also included the JSON and BSON serializers from the MongoDB C# Driver in the test, and since BSON is a binary format I have included protobuf-net as a …
JSON serializers benchmark updated – including MongoDB Driver Read More »
Amazon’s DynamoDB is a wonderful product – scalable, durable, fast, with predictable latency numbers unlike SimpleDB. However, the only gripe I have with DynamoDB is that there is no built-in support for a query language, which makes life rather difficult when you want to perform a query or a scan against the data you have …
DynamoDb.SQL – a SQL-like external DSL for Amazon DynamoDB Read More »
In general, when you see async void in your code it’s bad news, because: you can’t wait for its completion (as mentioned in this post already) any unhandled exceptions will terminate your process (ouch!) Suppose you have a timer event that fires every once in a while and you want to do some asynchronous …
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