It's always bugged me that I could use a lambda expression with List<T>.Sort(), but not with IEnumerable<T>.OrderBy, i.e. given data object Data: public class Data { public int Id; public string Name; public int Rank; } you can sort List<Data> … Continue reading
So everyone is talking about join.app.net and I agree with almost everything they say. I'm all for promoting services in which the user is once again the customer rather than, as in ad supported systems, the product. But it seems … Continue reading
Most complaints levied against static type systems come down to verbosity and complexity required to express intent, all of which are usually the fault of the language not of type system. Type inference, parametric types, etc. are all refinements to … Continue reading
After the latest round of scala is teh complex, I started thinking a bit more about the similar roles implicit conversions in scala play to extension methods in C#. I can't objectively comment on whether Extension Methods are simpler (they … Continue reading
Tried to upgrade node from 0.4.5 to 0.6.x and my my micro kept falling over dead. I know it's an edge case, but it's an annoying set of symptoms that I figured I should post in case someone else runs … Continue reading
I consider the start of my programming carreer to be when I learned Genera LISP on Symbolics LISP machines. Sure I had coded in Basic, Pascal and C, and unfortunately Fortran, before this, but it had always just been a … Continue reading
So there I was trying to get jade-mode running and it kept dropping into fundamental mode. The error it gave in *Messages* was: File mode specification error: (void-function whitespace-mode) Problem was i was running emacs-22.2.3, the latest in centos and … Continue reading
This is yet another in my series of posts musing about what my ideal language would look like. This one is about readability. Most code I write these days seems to utilize three types of classes: Data, Services and Workflow. … Continue reading
I just had a lovely object lesson in lazy evaluation of Iterators. I wanted to have method that would return an enumerator over an encapsulated set after doing some sanity checking: public IEnumerable<Subscription> Filter(Func<Subscription, bool> filter) { if(filter == null) … Continue reading