Nintex Cloud – how to show attachments on Cloud Task Forms When using Nintex Workflow Cloud (NWC) or Nintex Automation Cloud (NAC), a common issue that needs to be overcome is displaying attachments on NWC/NAC task forms. For example,… Continue Reading
Does How You Access Class Properties Make A Difference? One day I found myself writing methods for Forex Trading bots where numerous methods within the bot had to access framework classes with properties that were read only. I started… Continue Reading
Things I do to increase Windows drive performance Everyone knows how much I love to play with and micro-optimize codes when programming. But what little tricks do I do to help with Windows drive performance on my computers/laptops? …
Massive SQL Date Time Cheat Sheet Anyone who has been involved in SQL will undoubtedly tell you wargames they played when they had to manipulate date time data via SQL. Here are code snippets to multiple Date and Time… Continue Reading
Division Vs Multiplication Equivalent It’s a common belief in the world of programming that division is slower than multiplication. Not in order of magnitudes, but relatively. Granted, it depends on the underlying architecture, but generally speaking, a computer will be… Continue Reading
Does caching calculated loop indexes make a difference? Recently I was reviewing code to a real time financial application. Within a major for-loop construct, I came across the following subset of C# code:
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for (int index = 1; index < maxLoops; index++) { //Did some stuff _iSeries1[index] = _coeff1*MarketSeries.Close[index] + _coeff2*_iSeries1[index - 1]; _iSeries2[index] = _coeff1*_iSeries1[index] + _coeff2*_iSeries2[index - 1]; _iSeries3[index] = _coeff1*_iSeries2[index] + _coeff2*_iSeries3[index - 1]; _iSeries4[index] = _coeff1*_iSeries3[index] + _coeff2*_iSeries4[index - 1]; _iSeries5[index] = _coeff1*_iSeries4[index] + _coeff2*_iSeries5[index - 1]; _iSeries6[index] = _coeff1*_iSeries5[index] + _coeff2*_iSeries6[index - 1]; //Did more stuff in which objects and arrays were frequently accessed with [index - 1] } |
Look how many times [index… Continue Reading
Does Parameter Order Make A Difference? I remember reading once that frequently accessed method variables placed first within a method’s signature are accessed faster as they are allocated for available cpu registers. As I was refactoring C# code in… Continue Reading
Greater Than vs Less Than vs Equals in C# As a programmer, have you ever had a situation where there’s a variable that could be 1 of 2 or maybe 3 values? I came across code where there was a… Continue Reading
Length Vs Count Vs Initialized Variable in C# This test originated from having to loop over millions of records in an array in an application that requires everything be as fast as possible. It was stumbled upon by accident when… Continue Reading
IN Vs INNER JOIN Here we will do a quick benchmark on using IN vs INNER JOIN. This came about when a coworker had to run a one-off SQL statement to see if approximately 3,500 codes (from a supplied… Continue Reading