Darrell Russell. A Software Contractor with over 10 years development experience. He is an experienced Microsoft .NET software developer specialising in C#, VB.NET, SQL Server Databases, ASP/ASP.NET web sites, XML, Web Services, WinForms, WCF and WFF development and consultancy work on a freelance basis. Based in the South West of the UK (Tetbury, Gloucestershire) and available to do work within South Wales, the M4 corridor, Gloucestershire, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Somerset including Bath, Bristol, Swindon, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Salisbury. At the moment he is particulary interested in Agile Software development methodologies including Test Driven Development (TDD).
I’d known that structs can be used to group some related items together (to aid understanding, reduce bugs etc) and I knew that they can be an aid for performance (less of an overhead compared to objects). But I didn’t really know why .. this article is a pretty clear introduction to the advantages of structs.
If you ever have to sniff packets on your network (and as a softie there will always be times when you’ll have to get your hands dirty and check out what’s really happening on the net) then your best place to start is http://www.ethereal.com/ .. it’s a free network protocol analyzer and bloody powerfull with it
Once you have that then how do you use the bloody thing?
If your clued up about the basics of networking then it’s pretty obvious but I’ve just seen a series of blogs that help you get started, which look good. I haven’t read them all the way through yet but I’m sure I will sometime .. have to admit I’m not looking forward to that time cos it’ll mean I’ve got networking issues
I’m getting so much spam on this blog (and no it’s not just me) I’ve had to re-introduce user accounts - this will filter out the spam but will make it more difficult for people to comment. This shouldn’t be an issue as Ben is the only person that actually comments on ‘em
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