Obviously I’d normally ask developer questions on Stack Overflow but in this case, it feels like the answers may be at least somewhat opinion-based. If it turns out that it’s sufficiently straightforward that a Stack Overflow question and answer would be useful, I can always repost it there later. The Facts Noda Time 1.x exists … Continue reading Versioning conundrum for Noda Time – help requested →

Source code for everything is on Github. It probably won’t be useful to you unless you’ve got very similar hardware to mine, but you may want to just have a look. Background Near the end of 2015, we had a new shed built at the back of our garden. The term “shed” is downplaying it … Continue reading Ultimate Man Cave: voice automation for my shed →

Today I’ve been reviewing the ECMA-334 C# specification, and in particular the section about class instance constructors. I was struck by this piece in a clause about default constructors: If a class contains no instance constructor declarations, a default instance constructor is automatically provided. That default constructor simply invokes the parameterless constructor of the direct … Continue reading To base() or not to base(), that is the question →

First note: this blog post is very much tongue in cheek. I’m not actually planning on using the idea. But it was too fun not to share. As anyone following my activity on GitHub may be aware, I’ve been quite a lot of work on Protocol Buffers recently – in particular, a mostly-new port for … Continue reading “Sideways overriding” with partial methods →

At the moment, I’m spending a fair amount of time thinking about a new version of the C# API and codegen for Protocol Buffers, as well as other APIs for interacting with Google services. While that’s the context for this post, I want to make it very clear that this is still a personal post, … Continue reading Backwards compatibility is (still) hard →