Ramblings about C#, .NET and Programming
Yesterday I saw one of the worst live performances I can remember. Amy Winehouse has a fantastic voice, but if she keeps doing this she will disappear from scene within the next six months. As if starting the concert 45 minutes after time wasn”t bad enough, she appeared completely drunk (and, dare I say it, […]
Well, not really… As you surely know, you cannot have mutiple inheritance in .NET. That really sucks. Yes, I agree that multiple inheritance might bring several problems but when applied correctly, it really helps. Don”t believe me? Ok, take a look at WTL. Back to .NET…Since we can”t use multiple inheritance, we end up defining […]
2011-01-12 10:08:04
As always, Scott Guthrie has announced it on his blog (let”s see if I can keep up with all the work the ASP.NET team has been releasing and if I can finally start looking at these new platforms…)
I”ve been using SVN as my source control provider for some time now. I”ve been trying several approaches with it on these last months and to me, the best approach is to use a sheme based on trunk + branches + tags. I”ve been writing down several notes while trying to put a post about […]
Just a quick post to remind everyone that uses it that Postsharp RC 3.0 is out.
If like me you”re a programmer, I”m sure that we both agree when I say that having a decent font for working is a must! Damien Guard has released another preview of his Envy Code R monospaced font. I”m already using it and I think that you should at least check it out.
After reading Paulo”s post on xobni, I”ve decided to give it a go. And guess what? It”s really amazing! Go get it here!
Check it out on the Jetbrain”s Resharper page.
Well, see it for yourself :,,)
Today I”ve finally got some time to take a look at Billy McCafferty”s S#arp Architecture. Comparing with the old NHibernate best practices project, I think it”s fair to say that there are several important improvements. For instance, there”s no longer a Load method that takes an instance and a property list which was used to […]
Man, you gotta love Jon Skeet! Just read this post on a benchmark he performed on the generation of the Mandelbrot set between several single threaded and multithreaded approaches. Cool stuff!
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This book is a classic! It”s one of those books that simply doesn”t get outdated! I”m not sure if this is such a good thing. After all, the book has more than 20 years now and if we still keep doing the same mistakes, then something is really wrong with us :,,) Anyway, the book […]
I”ve thought it would be good to post an entry which aggregates all my LINQ To XML entries for future reference: LINQ To XML: I”m hooked! LINQ To XML: building documents with a functional approach LINQ To XML: working with documents LINQ To XML: navigating through the axis LINQ To XML: using XPath expressions LINQ […]
Now that we know the basics, it”s time to see how we can use this new API with LINQ. In this post, we”ll start by seeing how we can filter an XML document and then we”ll how easy it is to transform an existing XML tree into a different one. Lets start by defining an […]
For some time now, I”ve been a proud owner of an HTC touch and I”m really happy with it. Anyway, I”ve just noticed that they”ve just released a new model: HTC Touch Diamond. It looks just great! Well, I guess that now I can say that I regret having bought an HTC touch…
You can get them from here (VS) and here (.NET). I”m reading what”s new on Brad Abrams post and I”m really digging the new features:,,) For instance, having the format option working with JS code is simply cool! Another cool thing: the ScriptManager is able to combine scripts so there”s really no need for using […]
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Jon Skeet published a really cool article on this topic. It”s really good stuff, so go read it!
One of the things you might need doing is changing the contents of an existing XML tree. As you might expect, this is possible with the new LINQ To XML API. Lets start with the existing XML tree presented on one of the latests posts. I”m just putting it here again so that you don”t […]
In the last post of the series, we”ve seen how easy it is to navigate along the axis with the new LINQ To XML API. At the time, I”ve promised another post on how to use XPath to navigate along the XML tree. That”s the objective of today”s post. If you look carefully at the […]
I”ve been a long time reader of the Coding Horror. I do enjoy the posts…at least most of the time. The best part about blogging is that we”re all entitled to have an opinion. And that”s why I was really shocked (to say the least) when I saw the MVC pattern applied to the HTML+CSS+Browser […]
I”ve already blogged about the cool utility Path class. However, it seems like there still are some people that prefer to do it the hardway :,,) Here”s an example of a question I”ve received: “How can I return the full path to a file? I mean, I might receive a local path…in that case, I […]
I don”t know who”s responsible for managing the MSDN download site, but if you”re listening, please, don”t walk, run and put that damn thing like it was! Again, there are books on usability out there. For instance, read this one before deciding to change the world and making something “really cool” which will only make […]
I”ve just finished up reading the second book of the Write Great Code sequel. Even though I don”t use C or C++ regularly in my day-to-day work (yeah baby, it”s always C#), I can tell you that I”ve enjoyed reading this book. It”s really well written (at least, the first 100 pages, where you get […]
After a glitch of two days, I”m back. Unfortunately, Sushi decided that she had to be the center of the world in these last days and when she thought she wasn”t, she decided to jump straight from the second floor without a parachute…after, stairs are only for humans:,,) Fortunately, se didn”t hurt herself and half […]
Today, while I was visiting Madeira Shopping, I”ve noticed that there was an animal adoption campaign going on organized by SPAD. Guess what? I couldn”t resist Sushi and so I”ve ended up getting another cat. Here she is, posing for a great picture: As you can guess, the other two members weren”t really thrilled about […]
