May 2006 Blog Posts
Handy list of open source C# projects
This article shows some pitfalls when it comes to indexing asp.net pages. I would add one more – AJAX.
In one of the comments to Using LINQ with ASP.NET
Scott said that the final version of Orcas should be available the second half of 2007 and what is even more important we can start playing with its CTP drops this summer :). I know it’s Microsoft and they can postpone it but for some reason I trust Scott.
I’m sick but I can still watch videos from Channel 9 :).
If you need a general overview of C++ 2005 and its relation to
CLR then I recommend this video with Brandon Bray.
It looks like C++ 2005 is big improvement in terms of usability since C++ 2003.
I was using managed C++ 2003 about two years ago and it was nightmare. In one solution I had C, C++, managed C++ and C# code. Even if it compiled it very often threw strange exceptions during runtime because of mixed nature of almost all my assemblies.
A few things Brandon mentioned:
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Scott Hanselman represents quite similar to main point of view.
But I think that Microsoft’s certificate can have real value if we satisfy
a few conditions. If we learn in order to prepare to them then it makes sense otherwise
it’s bullshit. And one more remark, many job offers say that the certificates are either
required or at least more then welcome. Does it make any senses? Not much to me because every single person that can handle mouse and keyboard can pass them without any problem. How? Just download brain dumps from the Internet.
Then how having them or not having them can...
I am really excited about extension methods and once C# 3.0 is released I’m going to extend every collection class with IsEmpty, IsNotEmpty functions. They should look like that:
1: public static bool IsEmpty(this ArrayList list)
2: {
3: return list.Count == 0;
4: }
5:
6:
7: public static bool IsNotEmpty(this ArrayList list)
8: {
9: return list.Count > 0;
10: }
I know that...
I was there. Here is the proof. But where is my pint of Guinness? :)