Most posts on Rock Solid are written as articles, stand alone or in a series. Instead of you having to search by keyword or use tags to find likely matches, here are some of the top article series written on the site (or on our sister site Reliable Systems):

Getting to Know Gibraltar

1. Making a Start: First steps, adding it to your application.
2. Recording Exceptions: Now, capture exceptions in their full detail in your application.

Gibraltar 3.0 Deep Dive

1. Super sized Sessions: No matter how long it runs or how much you log, you can get your data.
2. Live Network Log Viewing: See what’s happening in your servers in real time, over the Internet.

Product Feedback

1. Tough Love for Products: Do your favorite products a favor, tell them what they’re getting wrong.
2. If Not Your Friends, Who?: Who to actively hunt down feedback from, and why.
3. Listen to the Symphony: Evaluating the tenor of all the feedback you get.

Defect Perspectives

1. It Depends On Your Perspective: Put product issues into perspective to know what to fix and when.
2. The Diagnostic Perspective: How deep and how long do you look into an issue?
3. The Resolution Perspective: Famous Last words: What could go wrong? Regardless of how trivial the defect is there are very real costs and risks to resolving it.

Build Automation

1. Setting the Stage: What IS a build anyway? And why would people not want to automate it?
2. The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread: Why you really want to insist on automating your build process. Today. Get a pizza and get cracking.
3. Get Rich Slowly: How to create an automated build incrementally and make it a natural evolutionary process of your team

Related Publications Elsewhere

We like to contribute to .NET communities wherever we can.   The current list of published articles is:

• Single Instance String Store for .NET (CodeProject): By implementing a single instance string store, you can significantly reduce the memory footprint of your application.

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