Thursday, July 04, 2013

Protocol Buffers @ .NET / c#

c# - How fast or lightweight Is Protocol Buffer? - Stack Overflow:

There are multiple .NET tools that implement Google's Protocols Buffers


Jon Skeets:
https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-csharp-port/

"Protocol Buffers" is a binary serialization format and technology, released to the open source community by Google in 2008.

There are various implementations of Protocol Buffers in .NET. This project is a fairly close port of the Google Java implementation.



Marc Gravel's:
https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/

protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications. It is designed to be:
  • small in size - efficient data storage (far smaller than xml) 
  • cheap to process - both at the client and server 
  • platform independent - portable between different programming architectures 
  • extensible - to add new data to old messages 
protobuf-net is a .NET implementation of this, allowing you to serialize your .NET objects efficiently and easily. It is compatible with most of the .NET family, including .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, .NET CF 2.0/3.5, Mono 2.x, Silverlight 2, etc.


https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/wiki/Performance

Protocol Buffers is by far fastest serialization on .NET
Service Stack .NET Benchmarks
(Northwind DB Tables .NET Serialization benchmarks)

using as plugin for ServiceStack


Protocols Buffers Developer Guide
Protocol buffers are now Google's lingua franca for data – at time of writing, there are 48,162 different message types defined in the Google code tree across 12,183 .proto files. They're used both in RPC systems and for persistent storage of data in a variety of storage systems.

Web Essentials, Visual Studio 2013, Browser Link

Web Essentials 2013 Preview now available - A Visual Studio extension

"Web Essentials extends Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 with a lot of new features"

podcast @ hanselminutes
Mads Kristensen

Google Reader Alternatives

Google has discontinues a popular "reader" service...
"Focus?"

Google Reader Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.net



http://theoldreader.com/

This is one alternative site done by 3 people...

Google can't afford to pay 3 people?
How many Google users are unhappy for need to look for alternative?
How about merging reader to Google+?
A some point, scale of business becomes a problem...

One-Man-Band vs Orchestra

Amazing One-Man-Band Street Performer in Croatia (Cigo Man Band) - YouTube: "
4+ million views on YouTube


1 thousand views on YouTube


Observe efficiency difference: one inspired person producing millions of views by happy viewers
vs. hundreds of "professional" people getting a thousand views... (if not counting national television :)

SuperComputer "performance-per-watt" list

Eurora Supercomputer Tops Green500 List - IEEE Spectrum


These days, cars are evaluated by fuel consumed per kilometer, not their maximum speed. Supercomputers are following this trend, too.