April 2005 - Posts

GenericStuff

Published Thu, Apr 28 2005 23:31 | girishb

Finally, I can get back to writing stuff like this. :) public class GenericStuff { public delegate void Function < K , V > ( K k , V v ) ; public static void Print < K , V > ( K k , V v ) { Console . WriteLine ( "Key: " + k . ToString ( ) + "...

Conversations about Contract-First Design

Published Tue, Apr 26 2005 21:40 | girishb

I am sure you have been following this very interesting conversation between Dare Obasanjo , Tim Ewald and Aaron Skonnard and Dare, again . Anyway, If you have not, the gist of it is that Dare thinks code-first (using a subset of features from XML schema...

ASP.NET 2.0 internals at MSDN

Published Wed, Apr 20 2005 16:45 | girishb

ASP.NET internals describes, succinctly, the differences between 1.1 and 2.0 (updated for beta 2). Excellent.

.NET 2.0 beta 2 (There is .NET without VS.NET)

Published Mon, Apr 18 2005 11:36 | girishb

Considering the fanfare with which VS.NET 2005 is being heralded, you would think that you cannot do any .NET development without this baddest looking, awesome, memory guzzling tanker of an IDE. OK, I exaggerated a bit. I am including the team system...

Ghostbuster

Published Fri, Apr 15 2005 9:26 | girishb

From, Bruce Schneier's crypto gram , I found this is really cool research project from Microsoft. He blogged about it in Feb. I wonder if the spyware tool released by Microsoft, contains this. From the blog: It's a really elegant idea, based on a simple...

List of Firefox extensions

Published Thu, Apr 14 2005 7:12 | girishb

Shimon has listed some cool addons for firefox to make it better. Very good list.. Customization, I guess, is always king.

C# rules

Published Fri, Apr 8 2005 7:37 | girishb

At least according to the Computerworld survey on language usage [Via Don Box's Spoutlet ]