Posts Tagged ‘ c# ’
A repl is a very important tool in the arsenal of a programmer. It allows one to test bits and pieces of code and then assembling that into a running program. Examples of this includes the excellent firebug utility for firefox and various shells (like the python shell). There has even been tries to bring [ READ MORE ]
In part 1 I made the very brief argument that compiling sucks. I really like that cartoon since there is a lot of truth to it. Compiling sucks mainly because it breaks flow. There has been several tries to fix it by lowering the time it takes to compile but in the end, it’s still [ READ MORE ]
Google released a new system programming language. I wonder if the names of Robert Pike and Ken Thomsen will make it more appealing to C people It’s clearly meant to go head to head with C++. The two most interesting design decisions to me is their take on OO (feels like templates done right [ READ MORE ]
Last friday, Lau discovered an interesting edge case of python. Something that at first appeared to be a bug, but later revealed a deeper truth about the scoping of Python. I guess coming from a C++ background spoils one in some regards. Scoping in C++ is simple and uniform, I have never in many years [ READ MORE ]
I’ve written about profiling before in the general case. But when it comes to multithreading, there are a few more factors to consider such as lock contention and cache invalidation that affect performance. And this is where mutrace (mutex profiler) comes into the picture. The profiler has a very low overhead compared (no perceived delay [ READ MORE ]
I recently finished up a big project at IOLA which used two major components: Javascript and c# (.NET). It was interesting for me to see the big difference in the libraries for these platforms. For Javascript we used the excellent jQuery library. For .NET we used the very buggy Devexpress library. jQuery, like Javascript, is [ READ MORE ]
What a dull subject. Exactly so because it’s supposed to be a done deal, I don’t hear many people arguing about scope rules anymore. That is why I was so suprised when the compiler complained about some perfectly valid code I had written. At first I thought it was only a peculiarity of the way [ READ MORE ]
I’m the founder of a small consultancy company with a strong focus on web applications. I’m also the founder of the community art site YayArt, that sells canvas and prints of digital art. My lovely girlfriends blog can be read here.
