QOTD
A friend passed along a quote the other day: So I just picked up this book today….and found this quote in the forward: “The truth of the matter is, if you need to “save” your job, I can’t help you....
Author: Charles Chen
Visitor Pattern In C# 4.0
I’ve blogged about the Visitor pattern previously and using double dispatch to resolve .NET’s inherent inability to resolve methods by parameter type at runtime. As I was reading about C# 4.0’s dynamic types, I started to wonder if this would...
Random DevTools Entry #017
In software development, it’s incredibly useful to be able to visualize your code interactions using sequence diagrams and data flow diagrams and what not. Not only is the visualization a plus, the act of generating one helps tremendously in terms...
WCF Load Balancing : An End To End Example For NetTcpBinding
Recently, I worked on prototyping WCF load balancing for our product, FirstPoint. I built a simple example to test the configuration and behavior of load balancing. Since there aren’t many end-to-end examples of WCF load balancing on the web, I’m...
Obama Says No To The Assault Weapons Ban
So can we stop the bitter tears for a bit? Just a little? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30232095 U.S. president signals he won’t seek reinstatement of assault weapons ban MEXICO CITY – Acknowledging a Mexican drug war that is “sowing chaos in our communities,”...
CharlieDigital’s Guide to “Teabaggin”
This recent phenomenon of “teabaggin” (lol) amongst conservatives has been humorous on many fronts. But it’s gotten me thinking: are there people really this stupid? I mean, that’s a lot of stupid. Some of the signs I’ve seen are pretty...
Why Do You Play?
One of my favorite all time sports quotes: You PLAY to win the game. — Herm Edwards It’s so simple and so obvious, and yet, so easy to lose sight of. Herm is right, but it doesn’t just apply to...
Stupid Questions
This one comes courtesy of Andrew Sorkin of the New York Times: Do we really have to foot the bill for those bonuses at the American International Group? Fittingly, he provides a stupid answer as well: So here is a...
Integrating NaturalDocs With SyntaxHighlighter (For The Win!)
In working on some SDK-style developer documentation for FirstPoint, it occurred to me that we needed a way to create some all encompasing documentation which covered not only our code base, but also our markup, our JavaScript controls, CSS, and...
The Follies of C# 4.0
Nikhil Kothari has been blogging furiously about Visual Studio 2010 and C# 4.0. One of his posts covering the dynamic programming features in C# 4.0 raised some interesting discussion in the comments. Some like Francois Ward: I heavily dislike this....