Hello, The slides and recording of my webinar on Tuesday is now live, thanks to the folks at PostSharp for the quick turnaround! Simplify Localization with Design Pattern Automation from Yan Cui
Hello, just a quick note to say that I’m doing a webinar with the PostSharp folks on a technique my team developed whilst working on Here Be Monsters (a MMORPG that had more text than the first 3 Harry Porter books combined) which allowed us to localise the whole game with a handful of lines of code …
Upcoming webinar on Localization and Design Pattern Automation Read More »
The most common issue I have encountered in production are latency/performance related. They can be symptoms of a whole host of underlying causes ranging from AWS network issues (which can also manifest itself in latency/error-rate spikes in any of the AWS services), over-loaded servers to simple GC pauses. Latency issues are inevitable – as much …
Being a responsible speaker, I have started preparing my talk – A tour of the language landscape – for NDC Oslo months ahead of time! When I first came up with the idea for this talk, I asked on Twitter if anyone else thought it was a good idea. Phil made a great point about …
On application monitoring In the Gamesys social team, our view on application monitoring is such that anything that runs in production needs to be monitored extensively all the time – every service entry point, IO operations or CPU intensive tasks. Sure, it comes at the cost of a few CPU cycles which might mean that …
In Here Be Monsters*, we have a story-driven, episodic MMORPG that has over 3500 items and 1500 quests, and with more text than the first three Harry Potter books combined – so it represented a fairly sizable challenge when we made the decision to localize the whole game! The Challenge From a technical point …
AOP – A story of how we localized a MMORPG with minimal effort Read More »
I recently co-authored an article with Gael Fraiteur (creator of PostSharp) on how AOP frameworks such as PostSharp can be used to automate the implementation of common design patterns in .Net. The article is now available to view on the InfoQ website here. A more offline friendly PDF version is also available here and from …
Whilst searching for an elegant solution to apply string interning across a large number of classes (we’re talking about hundreds of classes here..) it dawned on me that I can achieve this with ease using PostSharp’s LocationInterceptionAspect. All I needed was something along the lines of: You can apply this attribute to a class or …
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 »
Hello! Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking about Aspect Oriented Programming at next Saturday’s DDD10 in Reading, some great sessions in the line up this year, hope to see you there
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