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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:22 PM

I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Cluestick

Unless you've listened to I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue , the BBC Radio 4 "antidote to panel games" which was chaired by the recently departed (and much missed) Humphrey Lyttelton , this post may not make a lot of sense to you. That's...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:44 PM

Mandelbrot revisited - benchmark edition

I've had fun with the Mandelbrot set in this blog before, using it as an example of an embarrassingly parallelisable problem and demonstrating Parallel LINQ with it. This morning, over breakfast, I described the problem to Christian Brunschen , a...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:16 PM

Visualising the Mandelbrot set with LINQ - yet again

I've been thinking about ranges again, particularly after catching a book error just in time, and looking at Marc's generic complex type . It struck me that my previous attempts were all very well, and demonstrated parallelisation quite neatly...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:58 PM

Boxing day

Here in the UK (and possibly elsewhere - I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia) December 26th is called Boxing Day. I want to know why only this one aspect of .NET is given its own public holiday. Expanding the opportunities to language features as well...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:45 PM

Refactris

This post is in lieu of writing a proper one, either on the generic maths operators which Marc Gravell has been hard at work on, or on C# 4 which I have a number of opinions about (no surprise there). I will write about both of those topics, but I really...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:00 AM

Group pipelining returns: new and improved design

Last night's blog post provoked a flurry of emails between myself and Marc Gravell. Looking back, trying to base the pipeline on a pseudo-asynchronous version of IEnumerable<T> was a mistake. We've now got a much more attractive interface...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:05 AM

Don't call us, we'll call you - push enumerators

Update: I've got a new and simpler design now. I'm leaving this in for historical interest, but please see the entry about the new design for more recent information. This post is going to be hard to write, simply because I can't remember...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:51 PM

Wacky Ideas 3: Object life-cycle support

No, don't leave yet! This isn't another article about non-deterministic finalization, RAII etc. That's what we almost always think of when someone mentions the object life-cycle, but I'm actually interested in the other end of the cycle - the "near birth...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 10:38 AM

Wacky Ideas 2: Class interfaces

(Disclaimer: I'm 99% sure I've heard someone smarter than me talking about this before, so it's definitely not original. I thought it worth pursuing though.) One of the things I love about Java and C# over C/C++ is the lack of .h files. Getting everything...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:46 PM

Wacky Ideas 1: Inheritance is dead, long live mix-ins!

(Warning: I've just looked up "mix-in" on Wikipedia and their definition isn't quite what I'm used to. Apologies if I'm using the wrong terminology. What I think of as a mix-in is a proxy object which is used to do a lot of the work the class doing the...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:41 PM

Wacky Ideas - Introduction

I've been having a few wacky ideas recently, and I think it's time to put them to virtual paper. They're mostly around how we think about OO, and how future languages and platforms could do things. I very much doubt that any of them are new. I suspect...
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