Jason: There’s an issue with your stupid threading code. (Don’t jump all over me for not fixing the problem myself or the way that I brought up the fact that there was one. We have an excellent working relationship that allows for this type of interaction / humor. And we benefit a lot from it […]
Read MoreI just finished a discussion with about the structure of a particular class with one of my coworkers. One part of the conversation that I found extremely amusing went like this: Jason: I would argue that the logic that acts upon the collection your iterating over should be moved to a separate method. There’s even […]
Read MoreIf you also subscribe to Chris? feed here at Elegant Code you might have determined that we work for the same organization. We both regularly use Sybase databases, in particular ASA and Ultralite, which, unlike Chris, I can spell correctly :). We?re also both NHibernate users and have been for several years. We have 5 […]
Read MoreLast week we ran into a situation where needed to serialize an generic IDictionary so that we could stuff it in a database. And of course you can’t do this using the .NET XML serializers because they only work with concrete types. But I knew from past experience with Web Services that this could be […]
Read MoreYou can either : Write applications using .NET on a mobile device; or Write mobile applications that happens to use .NET. If you do the first one and the application is even moderately complex don’t expect any kind of useful performance. The almost limitless processing power on today’s desktops and servers is very much absent […]
Read MoreI?m sitting here full of pizza listening to a presentation about Live Mesh that?s being given by fellow Elegant Coder Sean Timm who is the author of what is perhaps my favorite EC post (the paragraph entitled ?Sean Timm?s rules of proper switch statement etiquette? is classic). One of the great things about this type […]
Read MoreI came across this post, which announces the first alpha of 2.1. on the NHibernate Google Group. Someone commented that they were looking forward to the final 2.1 release. Fabio’s reply was so awesome that I am including the text verbatim (emphasis mine): Work with final stable release is a very good practice in a […]
Read More"If something is happening that you can’t explain then 9 times out of 10 it’s because you’re an idiot". And if during said head scratching you get your shoe laces caught in the rollers of your chair it’s probably time to call it a day.
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