This is a brief post documenting a very weird thing I partly came up with on Stack Overflow today. The context is this question. But to skip to the shock, we end up with code like this: That just shouldn’t happen. You shouldn’t be able to create an instance of an open type – a … Continue reading Surprise! Creating an instance of an open generic type →

This post is an attempt to reduce the number of times I need to explain things in Stack Overflow comments. You may well be reading it via a link from Stack Overflow – I intend to refer to this post frequently in comments. Note that this post is mostly not about text handling – see … Continue reading All about java.util.Date →

Background I’m in the privileged position of receiving more invitations to speak (at conferences, user groups and podcasts) than I can realistically agree to. I’ve decided to start applying some new criteria to how I pick which ones I go to1. However, over the last couple of years as feminism has become an increasingly important … Continue reading Diversity and speaking engagements →

This was accidentally first posted here on my Code Blog. I deleted it and subsequently posted it in the proper place on my non-code blog. I’ve restored this placeholder post just so that anyone following links to it won’t get a 404…

I’ve been following the progress of .NET Core with a lot of interest, and trying to make the Noda Time master branch keep up with it. The aim is that when Noda Time 2.0 eventually ships (apologies for the delays…) it will be compatible with .NET Core from the start. (I’d expected to be able … Continue reading Tracking down a performance hit →