Month: March 2010

Just how lazy are you?

By jonskeet

I’ve been reviewing chapter 10 of C# in Depth, which is about extension methods. This is where I start introducing some of the methods in System.Linq.Enumerable, such as Where and Reverse. I introduce a few pieces of terminology in callouts – and while I believe I’m using this terminology correctly according to MSDN, I suspect that some of it isn’t quite what many developers expect… in particular, what does it mean for something to be "lazy"? Let’s start off with a question: is Enumerable.Reverse lazy? Just so we’re all on the same page, here are the interesting bits of the … Continue reading Just how lazy are you?

Speaking of which…

By jonskeet

I’m delighted to announce that I’m going to be speaking at the Norwegian Developer Conference 2010 in Oslo in June. Rune Grothaug announced this with the very modest claim that my talk (combined with a Q&A with Mads Torgersen afterwards) could "alter the future of C# altogether". Well, I don’t know about that – but I’m very much looking forward to it nonetheless. As I’m doing quite a bit of this public speaking lark at the moment, I thought it might be worth keeping an up-to-date list of my speaking engagements – and what better way than to have a … Continue reading Speaking of which…