Rico Mariani: Writing better, faster code

Posted By: Charles | Feb 23rd, 2007 @ 11:03 AM | 52,706 Views | 18 Comments
For eighteen years at Microsoft, Rico Mariani’s contagious enthusiasm for technology has inspired countless others to write better and faster code. Most people inside Microsoft know this software architect from his frequent postings on the internal performance tuning alias, and other people know him by reading his blog on MSDN. He often says that being an architect is a teaching gig and his passion for sharing knowledge has established him as an industry expert. Additionally, what you might not know is Rico is responsible for many of the cool features and tools that make programming easier like value tips.

See more Rico on C9 here.
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#Feb 23rd, 2007 @ 11:58 AM
Ion Todirel
Ion Todirel
buuu
wow, Rico Mariani, cooooool
#Feb 23rd, 2007 @ 1:04 PM
brentnewbury
brentnewbury
Dr.Tran. He's a real Doctor.
Wow, that was really insightful. Now I know who to thank when I find out there are only 9 elements in my collection and all of them are wrong during debug! Smiley
#Feb 23rd, 2007 @ 1:08 PM
noxa
noxa
Woooo go Rico! Great video, love the blog, and keep up the amazing advice. I always get excited when your feed goes bold Smiley
#Feb 23rd, 2007 @ 2:38 PM
ricom
ricom
While it's true that I wrote the initial version of "Data Tips" (I'm sure that's what we called it even though the show says Value Tips)  it's also true that the current version probably has nearly zero bytes of my code left in it. 

If anything is left its in the part that evaluates C++ expressions, I did work in that area while I was the debugger lead and a lot of it is still in use as far as I can tell.
#Feb 23rd, 2007 @ 4:26 PM
Richard.Hein
Richard.Hein
... my guitar gently weeps ...

Great interview!

I'm paraphrasing the ending for others because it has me thinking:

"10 Commandments of Performance
by
Rico Mariani

1.  Measure

2.  Measure

3.  Measure

4.  Measure

5.  Measure

6.  Measure

7.  Measure

8.  Measure

9.  Measure

10.  Measure

If you aren't measuring you aren't engineering. ...

And remember your system will have flaws.  What are the flaws?  How many are there?  What are the tolerances?"

I will remember!

 

#Feb 24th, 2007 @ 3:53 AM
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
Guys! Are you crazy? 850 MB!!! Expressionless

Video stream is broken too.
#Feb 24th, 2007 @ 8:33 AM
dot_tom
dot_tom
Who cares about the file size when the content is this good. This is one of the best Channel 9 videos I've enjoyed in a long time. Kudos to the C9 team and a big tip of the hat to Rico himself. Smiley
#Feb 24th, 2007 @ 8:36 AM
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
Good video? Hmmm, probably yes. But my WMP11 (Vista) can't play this stream.
#Feb 24th, 2007 @ 3:19 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
BlackTiger wrote:
Good video? Hmmm, probably yes. But my WMP11 (Vista) can't play this stream.


Mine can... What error are you getting?
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