Blog articles tagged 'general'

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on 4/18/2013 2:38 PM

A little while ago I was contacted about a new merge tool from the company behind PlasticSCM. (I haven't used Plastic myself, but I'd heard of it.) My initial reaction was that I wasn't interested in anything which required me to learn yet another source [...]

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The Open-Closed Principle, in review

on 3/15/2013 2:22 AM

Background I've been to a few talks on SOLID before. Most of the principles seem pretty reasonable to me – but I've never "got" the open-closed principle (OCP from here on). At CodeMash this year, I mentioned this to the wonderful Cori Drew, who said tha[...]

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Sorting Out What .NET 4.5 Bits Come With VS2012

on 11/10/2012 7:24 AM

Visual Studio 2012 has been out for a while now, I’ve been using it every day at work and I’m generally very happy with it. The biggest win is the performance, which is some much better than VS2010. I’ve finally begun to get curious about the new st[...]

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Stack Overflow and personal emails

on 8/22/2012 10:51 AM

This post is partly meant to be a general announcement, and partly meant to be something I can point people at in the future (rather than writing a short version of this on each email). These days, I get at least a few emails practically every day along [...]

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Diagnosing weird problems - a Stack Overflow case study

on 3/15/2012 11:31 PM

Earlier, I came across this Stack Overflow question. I solved it, tweeted it, but then thought it would serve as a useful case study into the mental processes I go through when trying to solve a problem - whether that's on Stack Overflow, at work, or at h[...]

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Currying vs partial function application

on 1/30/2012 10:32 AM

This is a slightly odd post, and before you read it you should probably put yourself into one of three buckets: Someone who doesn't care too much about functional programming, and finds higher order functions tricky: feel free to skip this post entire[...]

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Coding in the style of Glee

on 1/15/2012 12:07 PM

As previously mentioned, at CodeMash 2012 I gave a very silly Pecha Kucha talk entitled "Coding in the style of Glee". The video is on YouTube, or can be seen embedded below: (There's also another YouTube video from a different angle.) This post gives [...]

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Laptop review: Kobalt G150

on 9/18/2011 12:09 AM

EDIT, 17th October 2011: Last week Kobalt closed down... so the choice about whether or not I'd buy from them again is now moot. However, PC Specialist sells a very similar spec, now including the matte screen... As some of you will know, our house was b[...]

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