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  • Windows crash recovery

    Last night I accidentally pulled out the wrong power plugs, crashing my computer. For some reason this meant it wouldn’t start properly. I don’t quite get why that would mean it wouldn’t start as the hard disc didn’t fail, but none the less it wouldn’t : the computer would seemingly just hang and the...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Sep 23 2009
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  • Oh so you want polymorphism ???

    I recall almost four years ago to this day, I was at the 2003 PDC in LA. On the last day of the conference, the head architects of different .NET languages got together and talked about language directions, generics and some of the "VS 2005" stream of things. There was a Q&A session at...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Sun, Nov 4 2007
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  • Counting deck chairs on the titanic

    Paul Vick released some statistics in relation to VB , which for discussion sake I'll repeat here : Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express Edition (topping the #2 position by 20%) Visual Basic is the #1...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Fri, Nov 2 2007
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  • OK is not OK, but Close is ?

    I've been rummaging through the Windows Vista User Interface Experience Guidelines draft, a 33 MB pdf file , and it poses some interesting questions around warning and exception dialog messages. Now apparently it is not OK to present the user with an exception message and an OK button. Instead the...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Wed, Oct 31 2007
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  • C# defies logic

    C# has some interesting rules for operators on nullable types. Given: int? x ; int? y ; Laws of transitivity tells us that if x is equal to y, (x == y), then x<= y would be true too. Well not in C#. With this function: static void test(int? arg1, int? arg2) { Console.WriteLine("arg1 == arg2 returns...
    Posted to @ Head by bill on Thu, Sep 6 2007
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