I am a big fan of using Lazy<T> as my go-to implementation of the Singleton pattern. It works well and the thread safety is easily adjustable . While I won’t go into the details of how to use it, all the information is in the Lazy<T> documentation. For what I needed, however, Lazy<T> fell a bit short. I essentially needed a cache of something that was expensive to create, and could be invalidated when the source object changed. In my case, I had a list that I needed to run some aggregate queries against. Running those queries is expensive, so…
If you’ve been following all the cool new stuff coming in MVC 4, you’ve probably heard of the new Bundling & Minification features. They are seperate, but I like to think of them as parallel concerns. And apparently, Microsoft does too! Look familiar? This is what many sites look like, and it actually presents us two opportunities for optimization. To minify, or not and how to minify The practice of shrinking or ‘minifying’ script and stylesheet files has become pretty common lately, and there are many ways of doing so. Most methods involve either running a script during deployment that…