Tuesday, 3rd January 2012
Is there any reason for a new programmer to choose C# over VB.NET (or vice versa)?
My understanding is that VB.NET was mainly created to help make existing Visual Basic programmers more comfortable with the transition to .NET
[... 65 words]Has anyone implemented a message queue with mysql and many workers?
Flickr built their own message queue on top of MySQL: http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008...
[... 29 words]What are the best tech community event sites in San Francisco?
We have a large and growing community-maintained list of mostly-tech events in San Francisco here:
[... 85 words]Are there any performance drawbacks when rendering DOM views at runtime with JavaScript, rather than rendering server-sent HTML?
Yes, there is quite a significant impact on first-load performance. The browser has to pull down all of the linked scripts before it can display any content—if you’re using a library like jquery that’s a sizeable chuck of code that has to be loaded and executed just on its own.
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