Thushan Fernando

Olla: A Smart Load Balancer for your LLM Infrastructure

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When you start running local LLMs at home or your work, you usually start with one box and one Ollama install. Things are simple, you’re like, this AI thing isn’t half bad and it runs on my own tin. Then you add another box, maybe an old gaming rig with a spare GPU, then a Mac with LM Studio for the MLX-friendly models, then a Linux box running vLLM for serving things at scale. Suddenly you’ve got four URLs, four model lists, four different API quirks and no way to know which one’s hot or cold.

Smash v1.0.0: Fast Duplicate File Finder

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After a lot of testing and tweaks, Smash v1.0.0 is now available. It’s a CLI tool I’ve been working on for detecting duplicate files in large datasets using a file slicing approach rather than full-file hashing.

This all started with ~2 PB of Aero/Astro data to deduplicate - mostly 300–550 MB binary files, some multi-terrabyte - and traditional hashing just wasn’t going to cut it. Years ago, I wrote a tool called SmartHash (in C/ASM - those were simpler times!), but it was built for a different era & no longer working.

Converting Proxmox VMs to Containers Easily!

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:33:56 +1000

If you’ve got a Proxmox Server, you’ll know how awesome it is to run everything as (LXC) Containers, they’re light & resource-efficient, easier to manage and can be templated. But often, you start off with a VM, set it up the way you want and have no way of easily converting. Now you can, quite easily!

Missing /dev/serial/by-id on Debian variants.

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:33:56 +1000

Fix for missing /dev/serial/by-id on recent Debian derivatives due to a break in systemd.

Managing macOS with Brew Bundle Brewfile

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:33:56 +1000

Easily manage your macOS environment with brew Bundles and a Brewfile to create bundles to spin up a consistent environment everytime!

PipeWire Loudness Normalisation

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 11:45:20 +1100

Setting up Loudness Normalisation / Equalisation for PipeWire when you’re watching your favourite Youtube influencer!

Proxmox: Mounting CIFS Shares in Containers

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:45:20 +1100

A quick guide on how to mount CIFS shares on Proxmox Containers for Proxmox 7.x release.

Getting started with TinyGo for IoT Development

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 07:42:40 +0000

Explore using TinyGo for your IoT adventures on Arduino. Setting up - tooling, terminal goodies, VSCode with uploading your first sketch and some interesting bits about TinyGo in the new v0.15.x release.

Windows Terminal Setup

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:33:56 +1000

Simple guide to help you get started with Windows Terminal and work around some common problems, configure it to look schmick and improve your productivity too! Including my Windows Terminal profile with elevated terminal sessions in process!

WordPress to Hugo

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 07:42:40 +0000

Blog moved to hugo from WordPress. Some helpful hints if you intend to do the same too.

Headless With Raspberry Pi

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:35:32 +1000

A guide to setting up a headless installation of Raspbian Lite for the first time - securing your user account, enabling and securing SSH with key-based authentication.

About Thushan Fernando

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Thushan

I’m a Senior Consultant at SixPivot (formerly Readify) and Founder of TensorFoundry based in Australia.

TensorFoundry started in the 2010s as something I’d tinker on after hours and officially became a business on April 1st, 2025. The date is genuine, the timing was not a joke - but also, what kind of fool would start an AI company? TensorFoundry is where I take on NVIDIA consulting and work with customers on edge AI, fine-tuning and inference challenges. It’s also where the tools live (yes, TF fits my initials. That wasn’t on purpose):

Signing Git Commits

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:18:21 +1000

Signing your commits on git with PGP.

Clean install with bootable Windows 10 ISO

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 12:25:32 +1000

A guide on getting a clean install of Windows 10 with a fresh ISO from MSDN on an USB drive with extra meaty background information too.

Choco-tastic package export and restore!

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:25:32 +1000

Manage your list of choco packages before your reinstall with some useful commands.

Quick Tip: Mapping your GAC folder in Windows with Subst

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:19:07 +0000

Here’s a quick tip if you want to browse the files in your GAC easily without messing about with commands all the time. Map the folder containing the assemblies with the Subst command.

To do that, bring up a console window (⊞ Win + R ), then:

subst G: C:\windows\Assembly

This will map the Global Assembly Cache folder to your G drive in Windows Explorer. You can also peek around and see how the GAC works.

Windows Phone 7 Resources

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:33:49 +0000

I’ve been busy hacking away the past month or so with Windows Phone 7 and Android. They’re both very different when it comes to the out of box developer experience – with Microsoft tools being supremo right now. Thought I’d contribute some resources when it comes to (on this post) writing Windows Phone 7 Applications. I’ll try and keep this up to date with new things I find.

ASP.NET Session Cookie Crypto Attack Exploiting

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:12:27 +0000

If the Linux CVE-2010-3081: 64bit Linux Kernel Root Exploit didn’t get you, then this little birdy might. It seems the implementation of the AES encryption algorithm which protects the integrity of the Session Cookies in ASP.NET has a weakness which could enable an attacker to hijack sessions – Which bank? The idea behind the use of AES is to ensure that the crypt’d data hasn’t been tampered with – and hence decryptable, but unfortunately the flawed implementation of the use of AES and how it handles errors gives out some much needed clues for an attacker to pursue.

CVE-2010-3081: 64bit Linux Kernel Root Exploit

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:27:30 +0000

Well its been a heavy week on the security front, first up is a Linux root exploit for 64bit Machines.

A vulnerability in the 32-bit compatibility layer for 64-bit systems was reported. It is caused by insecure allocation of user space memory when translating system call inputs to 64-bit. A stack pointer underflow can occur when using the “compat_alloc_user_space” method with an arbitrary length input.

OpenIndiana Announced, the fork to Oracle’s OpenSolaris!

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:55:57 +0000

Earlier today, we had the announcement for OpenIndiana. Aimed to be the de-facto OpenSolaris Distribution that tries to be binary and package compatible with Solaris 11 & Solaris 11 Express. Its apart Illumos Community with 20 core developers providing (eventually) a stable branch with 100% free & open source distribution.

Not only that, you can also download a ready baked OpenIndiana distribution (based on ou_147) or if you’re like me and still using OpenSolaris DEV snv_134, you can upgrade via the IPS management tools. Having said that though, I’m not going to rush and upgrade my zeus box anytime soon as it will take time to settle in, but you can take the baked ISO’s for a spin in a VM 🙂 I have found a few references to OpenSolaris still there and there is currently no xVM Xen (dom0) support nor lx (Linux) branded zones. Not to worry, keep an eye out on the roadmap and release schedule for what they’re going to deliver.

What the flip are you looking at?

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:50:50 +0000

From The IT Crowd Season 4 Episode 5 – Bad Boys.

Git tips & tricks collection

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:25:32 +1000

Common tricks in git and some helpful commands.

OpenSolaris FIX: Server refused to allocate pty (SSH)

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:53:01 +0000

Just upgraded a friends OpenSolaris box to SNV_134 (latest available from the OpenSolaris dev repository) and after rebooting we realised we couldn’t SSH into it.

Server refused to allocate pty

DOH! This is caused by a known bug that has been around for a few builds now.

You’ll need to modify /etc/minor_perm and add the following to the bottom of the file.

Ubuntu 10.04 and getting Sun JRE instead of OpenJDK

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:26:31 +0000

If you’ve downloaded the latest Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx you’d realise that they ship with the OpenJDK instead of the Sun (Oracle) JRE. The Ubuntu team has decided to move the Sun Java bits to the partner repository which means we need to do a couple of things prior to getting it through apt-get.

The move to Android from WinMo and Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) coming soon!

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:10:43 +0000

I switched from using Windows Mobile Phone devices to the Android platform a couple of months back with the Google Nexus One. With Microsoft following the lead of Apple in closing everything they’ve kept open for so long, there wasn’t much to look forward to with Windows Phone 7 (I was almost going to work on that team had I moved to the US a couple of years ago). Though, I’ve started writing for the new WP7 series via work, I’ve felt it was time to move on. Android is a breath of fresh air, I’ve toyed around with the G1 but the Nexus (whilst still a HTC device) is a joy to use as is the operating system. I actually have two Nexus’s these days, one is kept stock as my primary phone, whilst the other is using the Cyanogen mod.

Google shows the power of HTML 5, ports Quake II to run in browser!

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:25:43 +0000

The title says it all. Using the Jake2 port of Quake II (to Java) the bright sparks at Google have used GWT to bring Quake II to HTML 5.

We started with the existing Jake2 Java port of the Quake II engine, then used the Google Web Toolkit (along with WebGL, WebSockets, and a lot of refactoring) to cross-compile it into Javascript. You can see the results in the video above — we were honestly a bit surprised when we saw it pushing over 30 frames per second on our laptops (your mileage may vary)!

Upgrading non-Global OpenSolaris Zone to latest BE

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:22:52 +0000

I’ve been tracking the latest dev version of OpenSolaris (as of writing I just upgraded to Nevada SNV 130 ) because of some issues surrounding CIFS in the 2009.06 image of OpenSolaris.

To update to the latest BE, simply update your packages and image-update (after configuring the dev repository!).

If you’ve created zones in your OpenSolaris system after upgrading to the latest BE you will need to upgrade your zones as well. Here’s a simple guide on how to update a zone named tomcat to the BE on the global zone.

OpenSolaris cheatsheet

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:20:14 +0000

Most excellent cheatsheet for OpenSolaris.

In the Zone, Creating OpenSolaris Zones.

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:08:34 +0000

I’m really enjoying using OpenSolaris as our server / NAS at home, its a different ball game to Linux but an interesting one never the less. One of the cool features of Solaris are the Solaris Zones (or Solaris Containers). Zones are an implementation of operating system-level virtualisation where the kernel isolates multiple instances of the user-space available. Something like chroot but so much more. Unlike running under a hypervisor (like VMWare or VirtualBox), Zone’s have very little (if any) overhead.

Part III: Zeus rebuilt and configured!

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:13:48 +0000

I’ve spent the last month working with the newly built zeus server which is now powered by OpenSolaris (2009.06).

Here’s my final hardware specifications:

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5050e – 2.6Ghz (45W TDP, AMD-V)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P (AMD 790X Chipset)
RAM: 2x ****Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 (4Gb kit x 2 = 8Gb)
Graphics: ASUS 9400GT PCI-Express
Hard Disks:
- rpool – 2x WD740ADFD – 74Gb 10K RPM, 16Mb Cache (mirror’d)
- tank – 6x WD1002FBYS – 1TB, 7200RPM, 32Mb Cache (raidz)
- base – 2x WD7500AAKS – 750Gb, 7200RPM, 16Mb (mirror’d)
Addon cards:
- SATA – Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller
- NICs – 2x Intel Corporation 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (e1000g)

I’ve finally managed to get the GA-MA790X-UD4P on the OpenSolaris HCL list – woo! Unfortunately the onboard NIC will not work in the 2009.06 release even though it is detected:

Some changes in .NET BCL 4.0

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:24:49 +0000

I’ve been porting a few products to .NET 4.0 and came across some cool new additions in .NET 4.0 which will be quite useful for developers.

Strings

String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace

Like the String.IsNullOrEmpty method, this new helper method will check whether the string is null, empty or contains only whitespace characters (from Char.IsWhiteSpace)
StringBuilder.Clear()

Clear a StringBuilder contents instead of (the currently) setting of length = 0.

ZFS gets deduplication

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:47:18 +0000

ZFS now has deduplication support which is as easy as just setting a property on the file system.

Read Jeff Bonwick’s (the supremo source for ZFS) article as it covers everything you’d ever want to know about what deduplication is and the various strategies behind it. Can’t wait for it to be implemented in OpenSolaris 2010.02 its already been integrated into the ON source base.

Quick Fix: jQuery $.getJSON() fails in IE6 & IE7

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:44:14 +0000

Had a nasty issue with jQuery + Json + IEx just now – still at work because of it!

This bit of code works perfectly fine on Firefox and Chrome:

function onUnitsModified() {
 $.getJSON("<%=Url.Action("GetTotalUnitCount", "ProjectReaper")%>", null, function(result) {
 if(result > 0)
 // Do stuffs here
 }
 });
 return true;
}

But in IE we’ve come to realise that the first hit is successful, future Json requests ones are not hitting the ASP.NET MVC actions (I put a breakpoint). You could append a time stamp to get rid of this annoying caching bug, but alternatively you can use the ajaxSetup options to disable caching.

Part II: Rebuilding ZEUS – The Operating System, FileSystem & Virtualisation

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:42:39 +0000

Now that I’ve decided what I want out of the server (and the hardware I’ve got), its time to workout what operating system to run the system on. Currently, ZEUS is running on Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) which is running LVM with an XFS volume holding approximately 2.5Tb worth of data. There’s a cron job that defrags the XFS volume to keep things in order.

ZFS Reference & Cheat Sheet

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:35:32 +1000

A working ZFS cheat sheet covering pools, datasets, snapshots, send/recv, compression and the bits you forget at 2am. Started on OpenSolaris around 2008, kept current with OpenZFS on FreeBSD and Proxmox.

FIX: OpenSolaris Package Manager fails after adding Extras Repository

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:21:28 +0000

After setting up the extras repository for OpenSolaris I tried to install VirtualBox via the package manager.

thushan@zeusy:~$ pfexec pkg install virtualbox
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 2598, in ?
 __ret = main_func()
 File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 2541, in main_func
 return install(mydir, pargs)
 File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 710, in install
 update_index=update_index)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 203, in plan_install
 self.log_operation_end(error=e)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/api.py", line 1410, in log_operation_end
 self.img.history.log_operation_end(error=error, result=result)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/history.py", line 680, in log_operation_end
 self.operation_result = result
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/history.py", line 279, in __setattr__
 raise AttributeError("'history' object attribute '%s' "
AttributeError: 'history' object attribute 'operation_result' cannot be set before 'operation_name'.

pkg: This is an internal error. Please let the developers know about this
problem by filing a bug at http://defect.opensolaris.org and including the
above traceback and this message. The version of pkg(5) is '87d6ba4c8e1c'.

Uh-oh, what the hell did I break now I thought? After some messing about I realised the time on the machine was a few hours behind – this was just installed on the new hardware I picked up the other day, the certificates were timestamped and I figured this was probably a clash of the space-time continuum. Instead of opting to manually set the time, I let it sync (periodically) with an NTP Server local to us here in Melbourne.

Setting up OpenSolaris Extras Repository for VirtualBox, True-Type Fonts, Flash & JavaFX SDK

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:03:45 +0000

I’ve been messing about with OpenSolaris (you’ll know why soon!) and decided to install the OpenSolaris Extras repository so I can grab the latest VirtualBox install from the repository. This repository has the following packages (as of writing) and is recommended if you plan on using VirtualBox:

NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION STATE UFIX
SUNWadmj (extra) 0.5.11-0.111 known ----
SUNWjsnmp (extra) 0.5.11-0.111 known ----
SUNWwbapi (extra) 0.5.11-0.111 known ----
SUNWwbcou (extra) 0.5.11-0.111 known ----
SUNWwbdev (extra) 0.5.11-0.111 known ----
develop/java/javafx-sdk (extra) 1.2.0.233-0.111 known ----
service/compute/sungridengine (extra) 6.2.2-0.111 known ----
service/compute/sungridengine/arco (extra) 6.2.2-0.111 known ----
service/compute/sungridengine/domainmanager (extra) 6.2.2-0.111 known ----
system/font/truetype/ttf-fonts-core (extra) 1.0-0.111 known ----
system/iiim/ja/atok (extra) 17-0.111 known ----
system/iiim/ja/wnn8 (extra) 8-0.111 known ----
virtualbox (extra) 3.0.8-0.101 known ----
virtualbox/kernel (extra) 3.0.8-0.101 known ----
web/firefox/plugin/flash (extra) 10.0.32.18-0.111 known ----

So what do you need to get these freebies? (source help)

Rebuilding Zeus – Part I.5: Change of heart, change of hardware.

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:06:06 +0000

After a bit of digging around, my original spec’d hardware I’ve decided is too much for a boxen that will be on 24×7, especially with the rates for electricity going up next year – every little Watt counts. The existing 65W CPU isn’t ideal, instead I’m opting for a 45W CPU instead and this means – looking at the lineup, its going to be a walk down AMD way. Less watts, less heat and less noise, noice! See AMD’s product roadmap for 2010-2011.

Part I: Rebuilding ZEUS, the journey of training the next home server

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:30:34 +0000

I’ve been looking at upgrading our existing home server from the archaic (and unsupported!) Ubuntu Gutsy (because I was feeling gutsy at the time) to something newer, fresher and that will last me at least another 2 years. This is purely for my documentation.

Current Setup

Currently running an AMD setup with Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) – I didn’t think it would last this long, honest! Ubuntu 6.06 had too many issues with the hardware/driver incompatibilities.

Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 4 fixes corrupted summary files!

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:32:32 +0000

Since ditching Outlook after Outlook 2003 (Outlook 2007, 2003 was fine in comparison) came around I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird as my ever faithful email client. Its fast, lightweight and not as bloated as Outlook is – couple it with Lightning and you’ll be laughing!

Thunderbird 3 brings some cool features for users with the biggest being tabbed message windows (and calendars etc). If you downloaded the new 3.x betas make sure you get Beta 4, the long standing issue with the Messagebox Summary file being corrupt has been finally addressed. Its been a pet hate for a long time now, sometimes searching a folder can corrupt an MSF (means having to go and remove the MSF so it rebuilds the index!), no more! Thunderbird will now fixup any problematic MSF files in the background, yay!

Keeping track of time with ntp in Linux

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:51:27 +0000

So today we had to move our clocks forward 1 hour (at 2am). Just realised that our Ubuntu box (zeus) was not displaying the right time to begin with (prior to the change). So to keep your computer clock in time with the world, use ntp.

I use the Melbourne AAPT time-server but you can find another here or if your an aussie, use these:

Learning Scala from a Java perspective

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:47:18 +0000

I’ve been reading up and keeping abreast of both the .NET world and Java world this year, both have some mighty exciting advancements coming – teaser: its all about the Pentiums! I’ll try and cover some of my research into parallel work later.

One of the other areas I’ve been keen on (after hearing from the leader of our pack, Mr Wolfe) was Scala and came across a incredibly useful resource by Daniel Spiewak on looking at Scala from a Java developers perspective.

InvokeRequired with anonymous delegates for threading in WinForms!

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:07:00 +0000

Here’s a little cookie from the cookie jar. To quote the legendary Jon Skeet from Threading with Windows Forms:

There are two different ways of invoking a method on the UI thread, one synchronous (Invoke) and one asynchronous (BeginInvoke). They work in much the same way – you specify a delegate and (optionally) some arguments, and a message goes on the queue for the UI thread to process. If you use Invoke, the current thread will block until the delegate has been executed. If you use BeginInvoke, the call will return immediately. If you need to get the return value of a delegate invoked asynchronously, you can use EndInvoke with the IAsyncResult returned by BeginInvoke to wait until the delegate has completed and fetch the return value.

ANTS Memory Profiler 5.1 Review

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:27:25 +0000

I recently took a look at the ANTS Memory Profiler 5.1 from RedGate software and posted my thoughts on it at the DeveloperFusion market place. Having toyed with several profilers in the past – DevPartner from Compuware (who’s now someone else who now owns the product) being my primary love since I first came across their .NET version wayyy back in 2002 when I was writing for Australian Developer – see ‘**ASP .NET and the Web: Optimising Application Performance’ (**which became International Developer which are now no longer around!).

Mounting and activating LVM Volumes from BootCD to recover data in linux

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:44:11 +0000

I’ve been working heavily with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and subsequently CentOS) the past few months (shh! dont tell my MSFT homey!) and one of the great things about CentOS and RHEL is that they both install using LVM - which is a helluvah lot easier when time passes and you realise your running out of space on a drive.

Quick Tip: String to Enum with C# Generics

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:10:19 +0000

Here’s a quick tip for you. Converting a string back to an Enum using Generics in C#.

private static T ToEnum<T>(string value)
{
 return (T) Enum.Parse(typeof(T), value);
}

Nice and easy, here’s an example usage – very lame I know.

// Original enum
UriFormat uriFormat = UriFormat.SafeUnescaped;
// Persisted value
string uriFormatText = uriFormat.ToString();
// Back to the enum from the persisted value
UriFormat uriFormatParsed = ToEnum<UriFormat>(uriFormatText);

Console.WriteLine(uriFormat);
Console.WriteLine(uriFormatText);
Console.WriteLine(uriFormatParsed);

Noice?

Linux Btrfs: A short history of btrfs

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:25:46 +0000

Valerie Aurora (such a cool name!) takes a look into the history of Btrfs, well written and easy to follow.

VirtualBox 3.0 New Features

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:00:43 +0000

Sun is prepping up the release of VirtualBox 3.0 which should be out soonishly (before the end of the month if everything is on track!). Amongst the top new bits of functionality is the guest multi-processing (SMP) support, you can now offer your virtual machines upto 32 virtual CPUs, which at last count was the highest by any hypervisor (VMWare can offer a maximum of 2). Not only that, but Windows guests get Direct3D 9 acceleration, bi-directional OVF support (still need to sysprep drivers) and OpenGL 2.0 support for Linux, Solaris & Windows guests.

.NET Tools: NDepend Static Analysis Review

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:41:51 +0000

The release of Visual Studio 2008 brought along Code Metrics to the IDE‘s ‘out-of-the-box’ functionality (I’ve been overusing that phrase thanks to our resident CRM Consultant at work!). This was a major boon for .NET developers to get a clear idea of health of what they write, Visual Studio 2005 gave FxCop integration that provided much needed static code analysis for .NET assemblies. Together these tools provide a peek into the deep depths of the project your working on, it benchmarks the correctness, performance and security implications, localisation, design issues amongst other metrics. Damn useful if you’ve inherited – as I often do in my consultancy life – someone else’s code base with little or no documentation. They say code is the best documentation right? (oh gosh, not one of those projects!)

Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing: Microsoft launches Bing.

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:41:33 +0000

A few weeks ago saw the launch of Wolfram Research Alpha, a natural search engine which could do some funky things. Now Microsoft have stepped up from their previous attempts – Ms Dewey (Janina Gavankar, who’s quite a hottie! reminds me of Tiffany) and now we have the final release of Bing (aka codenamed Kumo) which is going to be a behemoth search engine.

HOWTO: Importing Thunderbird contacts into GMail

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:22:07 +0000

I’ve moved my entire mailbox over to Gmail now, previously I was a firm believer in IMAP and didnt move to Gmail fully sooner because of the lack of folders – unlike in real life where my life is usually a mess, I keep my mail quite organised. Whats more, the junk mail filters are second to none.

Wolfram Alpha Launches!

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:13:40 +0000

Steven Wolfram of Mathematica fame (and pure genius) has launched Wolfram Alpha, its a ‘computational knowledge engine’ and quite a cool tool too! Taking on the big giants Google and Yahoo, Live etc, this bit of kit allows you to search using natural language processing (NLP).

Let me demonstrate, suppose you want to know who the prime minister of Bulgaria is, it will not only give you the answer but also some background information on the person.

UPDATE: Installing CentOS 5.x on ASUS P5WDH-Deluxe

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:23:52 +0000

Earlier I mentioned that getting CentOS 5.x to install on the ASUS P5WDH-Deluxe motherboard wasn’t as easy as I first thought and suggested you disable a few things (mentioned in the previous post). However today I’ve got another solution thats less headachey.

Forget disabling ACPI and booting with irqpoll, instead you will need to disable the onboard JMicron controller (mine was always disabled!) and make sure if your using a PATA optical drive you use the ICHR7 port – that’s the blue IDE port in the middle of the board at the bottom at the picture.

Booting CentOS 5.3 on ASUS P5WDH Deluxe

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:43:28 +0000

As my journey to find the perfect setup for the new Zeus continues, I thought I’d try out CentOS 5.3. One of the many benefits of running on an open-setup, lots of HDDs, lots of room to move around, not much time though 🙁

If you find you get stuck during the installation for CentOS (and subsequently RHEL & Fedora) here’s how to get things to boot.

COOL TOOL: WinRAR 3.90 Beta released with some ubber goodness!

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:49:04 +0000

Rarlab, the genius’s behind the WinRAR product have released a new beta version (v3.9) which brings some impressive new features:

Changes in Version 3.90 Beta 1:

WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.

RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

“Remove duplicate folders from extraction path” option in “Settings/Compression” dialog is replaced by more universal “Remove redundant folders from extraction path” option. This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction path if you unpack an archive with “Extract to DestName” context menu command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no files.

Changes in “Extraction path and options” dialog:

“New folder” button creates a new subfolder in currently selected folder;

F2 key renames a selected folder in the folders tree;

F5 key updated the tree pane contents;

Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree.

You can enable “Show seconds” option in “Settings/File list” dialog if you wish to see seconds in file dates in file list in WinRAR shell.

“Where to check for SFX archives” options group in “Settings/Integration/Context menus items” dialog lets you to control processing of SFX archives in context menus. For example, if you frequently right click “.exe” files on slow network disks, you can turn off “Network disks” options to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu.

If you sort files by name in the file list in WinRAR shell, WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting, same as in Windows Explorer, considering digits in file names by their numerical value. So files will be sorted as 1.txt, 2.txt, 10.txt instead of previous 1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt. This new sort behavior is available in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and newer.

Ctrl+W key combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window also as WinRAR viewer windows. “View as Windows text” shortcut in WinRAR viewer changed from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+I.

New command line switch -r- disables recursion completely. So ‘rar a -r- arc dirname’ command will add only the empty dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if -r switch is not specified.

If used when extracting, the new command line switch -ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this switch, extracted files will always have attributes assigned by operating system to a newly created file by default.

If output file name is not specified in “cw” command, console RAR will send comment data to stdout.

When compressing stdin data with -si[name] switch, RAR sets modification time of archived entry to current system time. Previous RAR versions did not fill this field, resulting in meaningless modification time for stdin.

Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR tray icon includes the archive name now. Previously only time left and total percent were displayed for archiving operations.

Bugs fixed:

WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive contained a file larger than 8GB;

WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;

previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display such spaces for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual file extension. But this security measure prevented the rename command to work properly.

The primary bits that got my attention was the native x64 release and the improved multi-threaded support for compression (the first two items – bolded). So naturally I downloaded the Windows x64 release and had a stab at doing some benches. This was a very quick test.

Think outside the box: Getting VirtualBox 2.x running in Jaunty

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:55:24 +0000

Here’s a quick guide on getting VirtualBox 2.x running in Ubuntu 9.04.

First make sure you add the VirtualBox repositorys to your sources:

Then add the following to the top of the file:

Quick Tip: P5WDH-Deluxe with E6750 with DDR800

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:58:26 +0000

If you own a ASUS P5WD-H Deluxe mobo and want to get the newer Intel E6750 (2.66Ghz) working with your DDR-800 memory (in my case some TWINX4096-6400C5‘s) you may find that when booting you get random clock speeds when posting, ranging from 2.12Ghz to 1.64Ghz and occasionally, if the Sun is aligning properly report a 2.66Ghz clock (the default).

HEAT OF THE MOMENT: Breaking News, Oracle buys Sun MicroSystems!

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:38:54 +0000

In what may come as a surprise to everyone, Oracle Corporation has bought Sun MicroSystems for a cool $7.4Billion benjamins. IBM was eying a buyout for quite sometime but (I reckons for the better of mankind) has failed to secure the epic deal.

Question is, what will happen to the buyouts such as VirtualBox (Oracle has a hypervisor which launched in 2007 and is based on the Xen Hypervisor), MySQL which was acquired by Sun a while ago (Oracle has this little RDBMS called Oracle btw), OpenOffice which will have another O added to it (oooo its OOo).

Quick Tip: Iterate through an enum in .NET

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:33:08 +0000

Here’s a quicky for you. Iterating through an Enum in .NET, replace ‘IconResource‘ with the Enum you want to iterate.

CSharp

VB.NET

Useful?

Rebuilding Zeus Part 1: Ubuntu 9.04 Setup

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:22:15 +0000

Just spent a fair chunk of today getting a rebuild of Zeus going – our affectionately dubbed Ubuntu server at home. This is the third rebuild (hardware wise) in the past 5 years (sheesh its been that long?), but I’m not complaining. First Ubuntu’fied version (5.10 – Breezy Badger) ran on an Pentium 4 3Ghz (Socket 478), noisey little guy that sucked quite a bit of power which was my old development box that served me well.

Hot Butter: Slipstreaming SQL Server 2008 with SP1 and an easier FIX for Rule “Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? failed.

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:58:08 +0000

We just did a hardware upgrade of one of our SQL Server boxes during the Easter break. With SP1 for SQL Server 2008 available I followed the excellent instructions from Peter Saddow to slipstream SP1 into the SQL 2008 ISO. Highly recommend you follow the guide 🙂

Whilst on the topic of SQL Server 2008, if you were recieving the following – as documented in this earlier post:

Quick Tip: Extracting all files in multiple folders in Linux

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:17:03 +0000

I just got sent a bunch of backup snapshots nicely compressed in RAR format in 20Mb segments in multiple folders. Nice I thought, now you’d have to iterate through 80 folders, and extract each rar file and merge them all into the same folder.

/media/Storage/Shared/Backups/AcronisTrueImage.WEBSOFTWARE-X.20090201/*.rar
/media/Storage/Shared/Backups/AcronisTrueImage.WEBSOFTWARE-X.20090202/*.rar
/media/Storage/Shared/Backups/AcronisTrueImage.WEBSOFTWARE-X.20090203/*.rar

So I threw the files onto our linux box (didnt want to run this through Cygwin) and knocked up a little gem to iterate through all the folders and extract the RAR files and put them into the root folder.

FIX: ‘The Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider is not registered on the local machine.’ Message for .NET Applications

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:06:09 +0000

Came across a post on DeveloperFusion today that resonated the same issue we had at work a few days earlier involving JET (no not the band) accessing an Access database in .NET code on Windows x64.

If you find you get a nasty:

The Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider is not registered on the local machine.

When you run your .NET Application – and I know this – on your x64 box, its because Microsoft does not support JET on 64bit versions of Windows outside of Windows 2003.

Deep Dive: How .NET Regular Expressions really work.

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:28:35 +0000

Have you ever wondered how Regular Expressions really work? Most of us (myself included) just take the implementation for granted, but Jeff Moser of Moserware has posted a most excellent, very in-depth overview how Regular Expressions have been implemented in .NET.

A must read for anyone who would like a deeper knowledge about what really happens under the hood and Jeff has done a brilliant job of pulling it into one consistent article.

Finally joined the 21st century and onto Twitter

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:50:34 +0000

Thats right, I’m now l33t enough to be on twitter. A foundry for all my /dev/random thoughts that just can’t fill up the space on this blog. As you’d expect its raw, unedited and uncut, just the way you like it. Alternatively the gadget on the right of the blog has the latest tweets.

Quick Tip: Extracting files from Windows Installer (MSI) Setup Files

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:33:09 +0000

Had to extract some files from a Windows Installer setup, a mental note of the command line:

Whilst on the topic of MSI’s, I can’t live without msi2xml. Perfect for that quick hack to an MSI that simply wont install because of OS Checks or something else – yes, I mess with things far more than I’d like to admit 😉

The anatomy of the Ext4 File-System

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:21:23 +0000

Tim Jones has posted an article on the IBM DeveloperWorks website about the importance and anatomy of the Ext4 file system for Linux.

The first supported file system for Linux was the Minix file system. This file system had some significant performance issues, so another file system was created specifically for Linux called the extended file system. The first extended file system (ext1) was designed by Remy Card and introduced into Linux in April 1992. The ext1 file system was the first to use the virtual file system (VFS) switch implemented in the 0.96c kernel and supported file systems up to 2 gigabytes (GB) in size.

Maintaining your XFS with XFS Filesystem Reorganiser xfs_fsr to defrag

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:37:05 +0000

File Systems are a hairy topic, on Windows you should be using NTFS (the days of FAT are long gone!) but on Linux, BSD and *Solaris we still have a wide variety to pick and choose depending on our needs. I’ve always been a JFS and XFS fan (previously ReiserFS) until Btrfs goes mainstream (which is one thing to hangout for in Linux Kernel 2.6.29!) and often I’d have a mixture of all three. Our main server at home – affectionately dubbed Zeus, after our lovable Australian Customs puppy Zeus, uses XFS, JFS and Ext3.

Linux 2.6.28 released for all the good l33tle boys and girls!

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:43:40 +0000

Linus Torvalds just released Linux Kernel 2.6.28 today as an Christmas present to all the good (and not evil) l33tle-big boys and gals around the globe. This brings a whole host of new cool bits and bobs thats sure to get people excited (Ext4 being one and the GEM Memory Manager) read all about it in the Linux Kernel Newbies guide.

Sun ushers in VirtualBox 2.1 with cool new features!

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:38:49 +0000

It only feels like last month Sun released VirtualBox 2.0 and they’ve just released 2.1 which brings a plethora of additional goodies… from the changelog:

Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts

Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16)

Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10))

Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66)

Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual, chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70)

Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2, Disk image ?les (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)

New NAT engine with signi?cantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support (bugs #1046{.closed.ticket}, #2438{.closed.ticket}, #2223{.closed.ticket}, #1247{.closed.ticket})

New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)

Some key things to note here, those “cool” people that run OS X can now get hardware virtualisation. Even if you have a 32bit host operating system your able to run 64bit hosts so long as you enable hardware acceleration on the CPU (AMD-V or Intel-VT) as VirtualBox’s Hypervisor requires this to work. A couple of other major additions – tested personally, include the enhanced virtualisation on the new Nahalem processors (Extended Page Table & Virtual Processor Identifier – see below) and the starting block for OpenGL (and later DirectX) Acceleration in XP and Vista. Testing this on OpenGL gave some decent performance though its still got a bit of work to do.

Google releases Chrome 1.0

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:19:49 +0000

Epic news, Google has released a 1.0 release of Chrome.

We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done. We are working to add some common browser features such as form autofill and RSS support in the near future. We are also developing an extensions platform along with support for Mac and Linux. If you are already using Google Chrome, the update system ensures that you get the latest bug fixes and security patches, so you will get the newest version automatically in the next few days.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 out the door!!!

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:03:19 +0000

OpenSolaris 2008.11 has just been released, it encompasses some super cool new features and I’ve been waiting patiently to try this OS – need something new to learn!

The OpenSolaris 2008.11 operating system is a point of integration for the installation, desktop, and package management system projects on OpenSolaris.org. Today, the OpenSolaris 2008.11 live CD is available with the following feature updates:

Microsoft Releases Singularity 2.0 Research Development Kit (RDK)

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:56:49 +0000

Microsoft has just unleased the initial release of the Singularity 2.0 Research Development Kit (RDK). Singularity is a research operating system started around 2003 by Microsoft Research to write an OS in managed code. The inner-workings of Singularity taken from Wikipedia:

The lowest-level x86 interrupt dispatch code is written in assembly language and C. Once this code has done its job, it invokes the kernel, whose runtime and garbage collector are written in Sing# (an extension of C#) and runs in unsafe mode. The hardware abstraction layer is written in C++ and runs in safe mode. There is also some C code to handle debugging. The computer’s BIOS is invoked during the 16-bit real mode bootstrap stage; once in 32-bit mode, Singularity never invokes the BIOS again, but invokes device drivers written in Sing#{.mw-redirect}, an extended version of Spec#, itself an extension of C#. During installation, Common Intermediate Language (CIL) opcodes are compiled into x86 opcodes using the Bartok compiler.

Breaking News: BD+ Broken

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:07:31 +0000

BD+ is the DRM{.mw-redirect} system for Blu-ray discs, as Wikipedia puts it:

BD+ is a component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management{.mw-redirect} system. It was developed by Cryptography Research Inc. and is based on their Self-Protecting Digital Content concept. BD+ played an important role in the past format war of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Several studios have cited Blu-ray Disc’s adoption of the BD+ anti-copying system as the reason they supported Blu-ray Disc over HD DVD.

Ubuntu 8.10: Intrepid Ibex Released!

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:32:55 +0000

With the amount of coverage surely to be taken by Windows 7 we can’t forget the other side of the force, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was released a few hours ago.

Believe it or not I actually stayed up waiting for it to hit the servers, then hopped over to the iinet FTP server (mirror’d by the Internode servers also) as the 3FL Mirror (Westnet) wasn’t up to date (it is now!) and started leeching the sucker.

Going Deep: Inside Windows 7 with Mark Russinovich

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:30:31 +0000

If you like discussions about deep internals you’ll most definately have subscribed to the Going Deep series on Channel 9. Today they just released a fascinating interview with Kernel Guru, Mark Russinovich – of Sysinternals fame, who is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. One of my favourite books would have to be Windows Internals 4th Edition, and reference it quite frequently. Cant wait for the 5th edition!!!

Windows Se7en: So it begins…

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:32:56 +0000

Unless you’ve been living under a rock under the Apple tree you would have heard that a little company in Redmond WA has been working on a new version of Windows dubbed Windows 7 (which is what it will actually be called for once!).

At PDC today, Microsoft finally unveiled the much-anticipated release of Windows 7 and handed out pre-beta bits to atendees (tagged 6801.winmain_win7m3.081020-1655). They demonstrated a newer build which was tagged 6933.winmain.081020-184 during PDC which unfortunately was not given out. Unfortunately I couldn’t go due to work constraints, but in case your in the same boat I’ve collected some of the best sources of info out there for you to browse through.

COOL TOOL: Throwaway the CDs & DVDs, use your Flash Drive + UNetbootin to install Linux!

Thushan Fernando — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:23:45 +0000

I’ll admit it, I still have a floppy-drive attached to my maturing beast, which is primarily used as my day-to-day development box. Floppies come in handy for that odd install of XP or below that require RAID drivers (though you can just use nLite and bundle it by default).

HOWTO: Running ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax Toolkit 1.0.x in .NET 3.5 / SP1 IIS

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:35:25 +0000

We had a bit of a dilemma at work today, we just sent a version of a web application we’ve been working on for the past few months to staging (testing) to our client. Our client mentioned a move to .NET 3.5 is pending on the boxes there and that they need to ensure the products we ship are compatible. Should be right?

HOWTO: Network Monitoring with nTop in Ubuntu

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:14:22 +0000

ntop is a network probe that shows how much the network is being utilised with very little overhead and impressive graphical representation via the web. Its definitely a must-have tool if you run a fileserver.

The version of ntop on the ubuntu mirrors is 3.2.x, so I set out to update to the latest release this weekend (3.3.x released in June last year).

Managed Operating Systems & COSMOS – C# Open Source Managed Operating System

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:33:31 +0000

Writing an operating system in Managed Code is not entirely a new concept but its quite an interesting one. The fact that we have AOT compilers gives us this ability to write such things. This post is a little guided tour or information dump on COSMOS as I worked through the initial bits this weekend.

TIP: Quick tip on how to Debug ASP.NET Web Application Deployed in IIS

Thushan Fernando — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:07:53 +0000

Heres a real quick tip (+ info) on how to debug a ASP.NET Web Application/Site when running inside IIS itself. After the launch of Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) we didn’t really need to have Internet Information Services (IIS) installed thanks partly to the bundled hosting engine (based on Cassini). But sometimes – just sometimes� 🙄 – when you deploy your ASP.NET web apps to IIS you’ll find things break – like we just experienced – unlike running via the internal web-server.

NAnt: Signing Satelite Assemblies Fix

Thushan Fernando — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:36:24 +0000

I’ve been using NAnt to build our source trees at work (via TeamCity ) and came across a somewhat annoying issue when it comes to signing satellite assemblies.

Problem Background

For several of the projects we use the CSLA framework by Rockford Lhotka, the framework doesn’t ship a redistributable binary blob. When it gets built it generates the following:

Google Chrome Released!

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:42:07 +0000

Google has entered the browser wars with their own take on how the web should be with Google Chrome. They just released the first beta for Windows XP / Vista today so go on and download a copy.

First impressions : WOW! Its ridiculously fast – taking Digg and PageFlakes as a benchmark – and the memory footprint is quite a lot better (23Mb) than the Firefox (68Mb – Safemode), Opera (41Mb) and Internet Explorer (52Mb) counterparts. As expected, each tab is a new child process to the main Chrome process, so closing a tab instantly releases the resources held by the child process.

Chrome, an Innovative browser from Google

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:50:08 +0000

I’ve just been reading up on the newly announced Google Chrome browser that will no doubt set a new standard for browsers. Its built on the WebKit engine and includes some really really different train of thoughts on how browsers should act and behave. You can read a very nicely done Comic Strip on the new things we can expect to see, which I think is genius in itself.

Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector to be maintained by Red Gate Software

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:31:19 +0000

Lutz Roeder just sent the word out that he has stopped working on Reflector handing the reigns to Red Gate Software who themselves have some impressive software such as the ANTS Profiler.

Lutz’s note

After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities.

FIX: Rule “Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008” failed.

Thushan Fernando — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:26:46 +0000

18/05/2020 Far easier solution was given by Paul in the comments section of the old blog. As the move to Hugo clobbered the comments, this article brings the workable solution from Paul and updated for 2020.

As you may be aware, Microsoft RTM’d SQL Server 2008 a few days ago, unfortunately if you have the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008 (any edition) installed you’ll find that installing SQL Server 2008 you’ll get a nasty little surprise: asg

Design Patterns in C# & Java : The Singleton.

Thushan Fernando — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:16:38 +0000

So its back to reality of living back home! I’ve been slowly going through my mail and replying to everyones messages, one in particular stood out from someone asking me about how to implement the Singleton pattern properly in C# and Java.

First of all, lets go through what the Singleton Design Pattern is and where its used.

HelloWorld #3!!!

Thushan Fernando — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:07:45 +0000

Well hello there yet again! After much procrastinating I’ve finally made my first initial post on the “official” thushanfernando.com blog! This is technically the third blog and hopefully the one that will stick till I’m old and gray (actually I’m already starting to go gray).

My previous blog is still available at DeveloperFusion’s blog roll, after so long I finally gave up on CommunityServer because of the constant comment spam and the lack of proper updating to address it. Not to mention that the CS blog editor is bj0rked in Firefox and while I do like to code, there are times when having a visual editor helps – especially in blogging!