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October 2007 - Posts

• High Concurrency Testing

  Do you know if your application really is threadsafe? "Sure, we have a perfect strategy how we place locks, all regression tests pass continously, we don't share state between threads, there is no reason to believe that it isn't." That's what we thought Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:40 PM by Carl Rosenberger | 0 Comments

• About version numbers, changelogs and stability

  In case you wonder what a fancy build number like 6.4.14.8131 really means, here is the rosetta stone for it: [major].[minor].[iteration].[SVN revision] [major] This number is controlled by marketing. Marketing wants us to do at least "one big major release" Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 11:07 PM by Carl Rosenberger | 5 Comments

• Staying Alive

  Our Client/Server socket connection system has undergone the third major overhaul in it's history. Here is why. Requirements for a socket connection between client and server are straightforward: The connection should not be terminated when both client Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 9:31 PM by Carl Rosenberger | 0 Comments

• Updating db4o library versions

  To make it easier for the team and the community to contribute to how specific types are marshalled to db4o database files internally, we have been working hard on our internal Typehandler architecture: Todays version of our TypeHandler4 interface class Read More... Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:26 PM by Carl Rosenberger | 0 Comments