Back to the ’74 with a 8080 emulator – part 1

Back to the ’74 with a 8080 emulator – part 1

I decided to take a walk down memory lane, precisely back to ’74. I named my horse 8080, like the planet . Well, actually it’s not a horse but an emulator, my first emulator ever 🙂 It all started when I saw this article on Scott Hanselmann’s blog, about this...

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Proviamo un po’ NDepend

Proviamo un po’ NDepend

Oggi é successa una cosa che non mi aspettavo. Mi ha contattato Patrick Smacchia, il creatore di NDepend. Mi ha trovato online non so come e mi ha offerto una licensa pro 😀 Non ho mai usato NDepend prima d’ora quindi ovviamente ero molto curioso. A lavoro qui in Dell...

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Entering the NDepend world

Entering the NDepend world

Today something unexpected happened. I got contacted by Patrick Smacchia, the creator of NDepend. He somehow found me online and offered a pro license 😀 I have never used NDepend so obviously I was very curious. In my daily job at Dell we obviously make an extensive use of static...

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Remember kids: DbContext is not threadsafe

Remember kids: DbContext is not threadsafe

Let me say that again: DbContext is NOT threadsafe. Not clear enough? Well, let’s make an example. Actually, I’ll show something that happened to me at work. Let me give you some context just for the sake of it, even though it’s not extremely relevant to the issue. In this...

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