Saturday, November 30, 2013

Funq: a fast DI container you can understand

Used in ServiceStack (.NET)

Funq: a fast DI container you can understand - Home:
"This project provides a high performance DI framework by eliminating all runtime reflection through the use of lambdas and generic functions as factories."

To follow the entire process of creating Funq applying test-driven development, make sure you watch the Funq Screencast Series

Read the Getting Started guide.

TED: ...a great career


Why you will fail to have a great career: Larry Smith at TEDxUW - YouTube:


"There are great jobs and great careers, and then there are the high-workload, high-stress, bloodsucking, soul-destroying kinds of jobs, and practically nothing in between..."

reference to Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)

A professor of economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Larry Smith coaches his students to find the careers that they will truly love.



there is no good, no great, unless there is a passion

Unity .NET IoC Container

Unity Container (v3.0)
"The Unity Container (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container with optional support for instance and type interception."

one of Enterprise Application Blocks by
patterns & practices Developer Center
patterns & practices - Unity @CodePlex

IoC .NET Containers Performance comparison

IoC Container Benchmark - Performance comparison - www.palmmedia.de
IocPerformance - Combined

(less is faster)

Top 20 NuGet packages for IoC - NuGet Must Haves
1. Ninject
2. Unity

USA Public Universities?

The End of the Public University? | LinkedIn:
About 8 out of every 10 college students attends a public college or university, from the local community college down the street to the massive flagship university in the middle of the state usually known for its football team...
only two of the top 25 national universities as ranked by U.S. News & World Report are public institutions, and the first one of those (University of California at Berkeley) doesn’t appear until #20.