Everytime I click my way through a hierarchy tree, I long for a simple BASH shell with TAB completion. It’s such a simple thing, but TAB completion (usually implemented via the trusty Readline library) still ranks as one of the most … Continue reading
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
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
Logging, to me, is a basic requirement of any code I write. There's nothing more useful to track down an odd bug than being able to turn on debug logging in production, potentially filter it down to the area of … Continue reading
I'm currently at #monospace and over lunch was discussing message passing with @ackenpacken and @briandonahue. I was lamenting that to create an immutable object in C# was just a lot harder than a mutable one. You either have to create … Continue reading
One dirty little secret about Visual Studio 2008 and even Visual Studio 2010 is that while MSBuild governs the solution build process, the .sln file is not an MSBuild file. The .*proj files are, but solution isn't. So trying to … Continue reading
Yesterday I needed to create a bit of code that should retry an http request on failure and i wanted this to happen in a non-blocking fashion, so a plain loop was out. Using DReAM's Plug, I can easily set … Continue reading
My inability to cleanly insert an intercepting actor to spawn new actors on demand discussed in my previous post about Calculon illustrated tunnelvision in my expression based messages. While these are a great way to express the message contract, they … Continue reading
I'm currently extending functionality in the notify.me bots and in order to make this easier, I'm refactoring the adhoc actor-like message processing system I built into one a bit more flexible for adding features quickly. Right now message senders and … Continue reading
After porting my mod_mono ASP.NET MVC application to Ruby and Rails and setting up Phusion Passenger up to run the application under mono, I finally figured out how to fix the leaking semaphore issue. The real title of this post … Continue reading