February 2008 Blog Posts
I suppose we all know that there are always some "ifs" and "buts". Edge Pereira wrote a blog post about a few of them that are related to human-human interaction. If I had to choose a single sentence from his post I would go for this one: "if an employee does not know the reason of his daily work, he will never wear the company's jersey". Needles to say I totally agree with the whole post.
Tags: Job, People
At this stage I nearly refuse writing code without ReSharper. I know it's bad but that's not the worst addiction ever :). Fortunately, JetBrians decided to release nightly builds of ReSharper 4 to public. Sweet. Tags: ReSharper, Visual Studio
CLR generics are great and there is no doubt about that. Unfortunately, C# doesn't expose the whole beauty of it because all generic type parameters in C# are nonvariant though from CLR point of view they can be marked as nonvariant, covariant or contravariant. You can find more details about that topic here and here. In short the "nonvariant" word means that even though type B is a subtype of type A then SomeType<B> is not a subtype of SomeType<A> and therefore the following code won't compile: 1 List<String> stringList = null; 2 List<object> objectList = stringList; <-- this...
I suppose there is no chance to get something like this in Dublin any time soon. Tags: Dublin
I'm sure you've already heard opinions that the wide opening of weblogs.asp.net might not be a good thing because it lowers the overall quality of the portal. I can see more often then before that people are leaving that site. I'm not saying that the aforementioned change caused that but something is going on. When I started blogging I wanted to have a blog on weblogs.asp.net but the admin replied to me that they didn't have any "free slots". At that time I was a little bit upset about that but now I know that his decision was right....