April 4, 2007 - ElegantCode

4 Apr

2007

Extension Methods Just Make Sense

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development:3 Comments

A friend and colleague of mine has a favorite interview code problem that I think is pretty fun, too. I think it is simpler than FizzBuzz, but is reasonably effective at prompting discussion. The problem is quite simply, “Please go the whiteboard and reverse a string.” I love the ambiguity of that problem. Do you I get the string in a […]

4 Apr

2007

MIX07 Sold Out

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development:1 Comment

Darn, darn, darn. I have been meaning to go to the website and sign up for MIX ’07 for a week. I finally sat down with a credit card and 10 spare minutes last night and found event registration to be down. I just went to check again to see if the registration would be back up and I learned […]

4 Apr

2007

Speeding Up Vista

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Hardware, Microsoft:

Not that Vista is slow, far from it, IMO. Even so, here is a great article on tweaking your Vista machine to make it run a bit faster than it does out of the box. What I like about the article is that I could send it to my mom and she could understand most […]