Francisco Figueiredo Jr Activities

After seeing Miguel's post about the Navigation features of Monodevelop , I updated my Monodevelop version to 2.4 and I couldn't agree more with Miguel's opinion: Navigate To is the best feature of Monodevelop. It is awesome!! You remember the type you want to work with, press Command-. (I'm using OS X), type part of its name (Monodvelop guys did an wonderful job about how little you have to type to find it) and voilà, your type is open and ready to edit! See more features of Monodevelop here .

Hi, all! Some days ago, I fixed a slow performance problem with Npgsql when calling functions . The problem was that Npgsql was doing a lot of expensive checks (in fact, 3) to verify parameter information and return type. The solution was to cache those checks so that new calls to the same function don't need to pass through the same checks again. In order to not have problems with outdated caches and etc and after talking to Josh on gmail, I decided to make the cache local and it would be invalidated as soon as the command text is changed. This semantics lead me to write this blog to share the idea that you can get a big performance improvement if you "cache" your NpgsqlCommands which will be used with function calls. This way, instead of creating and releasing the command object after its usage, you can create all your NpgsqlCommand objects associated to function calls and reuse them as needed. This way you pay for the costly checks only once. I hope this tip can help ...

Hi all! I'm right now looking for accommodations in Ottawa, Canada. I'm going to do a presentation about Npgsql at PGCon2008 and as I never went to Ottawa I don't know of any good place to stay. If you have any tips about cheap hotels, hostels or anything , please, let me know. Thanks in advance. Update : I'd really really thank you all of those who gave me tips about places in Ottawa. I already did my reservation and hope to see you there at PGCon2008!!