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January 2008

Achieving Code Symmetry

In my review of Kent Beck’s latest book, Implementation Patterns, I didn’t mean to present it as completely useless. It has some great points sprinkled throughout. It’s just that they are buried in trivialities. Still, one valuable concept Beck talks about in his book is that of code symmetry. Read this blog post

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Sleek Use of a Lambda Expression

I can’t recall where I found it, but here's a sleek way to employ a lambda expression: Read this blog post

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Where Is C# Heading?

A friend of mine (let’s call him Morpheus to conceal his identity) and I had a lovely chat about this helpful linkfest on immutability in C# (great posts there, btw!). Read this blog post

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Creepy Implicitness

Generally, I’m not against implicit operators, but this LINQ/XML syntax gives me creeps: Read this blog post

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Book Review: Implementation Patterns

When I saw Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck due for publication, I thought: “Kent Beck—yay! Patterns—yay! Famed Addison-Wesley signature series—yay!” I snatched a copy as soon as it came out. In retrospect, this book is nothing what I expected it to be. Read this blog post

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Philly Code Camp Sample Code

I’d like to give very belated thanks to everyone who helped put together this year’s first Philadelphia Code Camp, which took place last Saturday. I also want to thank those of you who attended my LINQ presentation, Can we LINQ it? Yes, we can! Read this blog post

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So How Do You Set The Last-Modified Header? Round II

Right went I thought I was done messing with the HttpCachePolicy class and the Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since headers, I ran into another fun issue. Read this blog post

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My 2008 Resolution: To Be More Eclectic

I’m not going to prophesy which technologies, tools and methodologies will bask in the spotlight in ’08. I only want to reflect on what I learned in ’07 and go from there. Read this blog post

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