About kseg

Karl Seguin is an senior application developer at Fuel Industries, located in Ottawa, Ontario. He's an editor here at DotNetSlackers, a blogger for the influential CodeBetter.com and a Microsoft MVP.

Articles by kseg (8)

  • Multithreading Programming Primer – Part 2

    Published: 17 Jul 2009 Views: 3,073 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0

    The power of threads lie in their ability to share information - but two threads accessing the same information at the same time can have devastating effects.
  • Multithreading Programming Primer – Part 1

    Published: 14 Jul 2009 Views: 9,993 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0

    As CPUs move away from ever-increasing clock speeds, developers must adapt to the realities of multi-core processors by leveraging multithreading programming. This is an introductory series on the patterns, pitfalls and strategies of stepping beyond a single thread.
  • JQuery Primer - Part 2

    Published: 03 Nov 2008 Views: 24,190 Avg Rating: 5/5 Votes: 1 Comments: 5

    Build highly reusable JavaScript components by leveraging JQuery's simple plug-in architecture.
  • JQuery Primer – Part 1

    Published: 29 Oct 2008 Views: 41,992 Avg Rating: 5/5 Votes: 2 Comments: 6

    JQuery is a lightweight, yet powerful, JavaScript library specializing in DOM traversal and manipulation, event handling, and extensibility. It is quickly becoming the premiere JavaScript library of choice due to its elegant and simple syntax.
  • Got Shoes?

    Published: 13 Aug 2008 Views: 6,349 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 1

    Karl Seguin looks into ruby and gives us his opinion about it.
  • Foundations of Programming - Part 3 Persistence

    Published: 05 Dec 2007 Views: 8,741 Avg Rating: 5/5 Votes: 1 Comments: 9

    The Foundations of Programming series looks at a number of key concepts, techniques and tools specifically designed to help developers meet the growing complexity of enterprise systems. Based on proven principals like unit testing, domain driven design, dependency injection and O/R Mappers, the series is aimed at developers interested in helping themselves.
  • Introducing Dependency Injection Frameworks

    Published: 13 Apr 2007 Views: 21,247 Avg Rating: 4/5 Votes: 3 Comments: 4

    Within a project, classes will inevitably rely on each other. In some situations, this coupling can make code difficult to unit test or dynamically extend. A common solution is to this problem is to use a Dependency Injection Pattern. In this article we'll look at how we can leverage the open-source Dependency Injection Framework called StructureMap, within The Code Wiki application.
  • Best of both worlds - SessionCache

    Published: 06 Nov 2006 Views: 16,608 Avg Rating: 0/5 Votes: 0 Comments: 0

    The Session and Cache objects each have their own advantages making it tricky to know which to use for a given piece of data. SessionCache is a simple class meant to bring together the best of both worlds.

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