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You are all individuals! (I'm not...)

I've been meaning to post this for a while, but recently a couple of events have coincided, reminding me about the issue. First, Joe Duffy blogged in defence of premature optimization . Second, I started reading Bill Wagner's Effective C#, 2nd...
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Where do you benefit from dynamic typing?

Disclaimer: I don't want this to become a flame war in the comments. I'm coming from a position of ignorance, and well aware of it. While I'd like this post to provoke thought , it's not meant to be provocative in the common use of the...
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Recent activities

It's been a little while since I've blogged, and quite a lot has been going on. In fact, there are a few things I'd have blogged about already if it weren't for "things" getting in the way. Rather than writing a whole series...

Programming "in" a language vs programming "into" a language

I'm currently reading Steve McConnell's Code Complete (for the first time - yes, I know that's somewhat worrying) and there was one section was disturbed me a little. For those of you with a copy to hand, it's in section 4.3, discussing...
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Bridging gaps, and finding my role

Warning: this post won't teach you anything technical. It's about how I see myself. That may be of interest to you, or it may not. If not, feel free to skip it knowing you're not missing anything else. One of the great problems of the world...
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LINQ to Silliness: Generating a Mandelbrot with parallel potential

I've been writing about LINQ recently, and in particular I've written a small amount about Parallel LINQ . (Don't get excited - it's only about a page, just to mention it as a sort of "meta-provider" for LINQ.) I was wondering...
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