Feed to read

Axapta specific

• Axapta Blog - Helmut Wimmer,
  Ax Developer from Austria


• Axapta Knowledge Village -
  full of press-releases but sometimes can be something useful


• Axapta Lessons Learned -
  the last post was in 2005, but worth to read


• Axaptapedia - it is not a blog,
  but contains recent changes feed. It contains information and nothing else.
  


• dynamics-ax.blogspot -
  it contain old useful posts but recent are dedicated to marketing opf something
  called "to increase"
  


• Dynamics AX Geek - contains some useful
  info for ax devs
  


• Harish Mohanbabu - Axapta MVP -
  - some integesting posts. His homepage contains
  lots of integresting things too.
  


• msdn:mbs -
  contains feed with recent articles at msnd about mbs products
  


• Palle Algemark - Microsoft
  developer from Ax team. Blog contains useful info


• Solutions Monkey
  - Microsoft employee blogging about MBS events. Not very useful, but interesting

Other

• .NET undocumented -
  if you interested in .NET, Office and other Microsoft technologies, subscribe to this
  


• Martin Fowler - OOP, TDD, XP
  and other smart things
  


• Joel - wise thoughts about software development,
  hiring of programmers, merketing and so on
  

Monte Carlo profiling

Axapta profiler is useful, but very slow (it can make your code 30x slower when enabled). So sometimes i use the following trick (it is like Monte Carlo method in math):

• run the job being profiled


• break it randomly and go to the debugger to see what is going on (Ctrl+Break then Shift+No)


• if you break often in some place, it can be hotspot

PS. Maybe, I simply do not know how to deal with profiler well, but it is hard to me to estimate real timing from profiler output. Maybe anybody can provide some tips for this?

MVP

I've got an MVP award. The main cause is my activity in erpkb.com, russian wiki dedicated to MBS ERP's. I have written lots of small articles about Dynamics Ax programming and I am collecting all bits of information which I see in the web.