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Steps To Figuring Out Performance Issues

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:26:19 +0000

Programming performance issues can be a frustrating and time-consuming problem for developers. However, tracking down these issues is a crucial step in creating software. Here are some steps that developers can take to track down programming performance issues:

The first thing to do is ALWAYS hook up a profiler to your code, reproducing your issue, and measuring what is causing it. Performance issues are often not obvious and if you don’t profile you’ll waste a bunch of time speeding up things that don’t matter(or just hide the base issue).

YAGNI – You Ain’t Gonna Need It

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 02:18:53 +0000

YAGNI and Agile

One of the hardest things to do in software development is to respect “you ain’t gonna need it” and “keep it simple stupid”. Every time I go to implement a feature, I can think of 50 extra things I should do to make it ‘complete’ and exactly what I want. It is so helpful to hit things with an Agile and iterative frame of reference. Build an MVP(minimum viable product) and publish! Extra features can come later as they are actually needed.

Hello!

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:49:06 +0000

First post!

public class HelloWorld
{
 public static void Main()
 {
 System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
 }
}