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  • New tool to play with: SemanticMerge

    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 control system, but SemanticMerge...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Apr 18 2013
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  • Visual Studio Live! Redmond–August 2012

    Had a GREAT time at Visual Studio Live in Redmond earlier this month. If you are looking for the sample code from my talks, you can find it here . Have feedback or questions from the talks? Feel free to post them in the comments below. Enjoy!
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Sat, Aug 25 2012
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  • Currying vs partial function application

    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 entirely. Someone who knows all about functional programming...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Jan 30 2012
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  • Visual Studio Live! Conference in Las Vegas

    There is so much to know these days with all of the new technologies, techniques, and tools in Visual Studio and the .NET framework. How do you even decide which technologies deserve your attention and which you can "give a miss"? One of the benefits of a technical conference like Visual Studio...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Tue, Feb 15 2011
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  • Microsoft MVP Forum Award Recipient

    I was very honored to hear last week that I won one of the Microsoft MVP Forum awards for top answerers. With 2879 posts last year (2010), I was able to provide 1174 answers in the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories . I really enjoy working with the developers in the...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Mon, Feb 7 2011
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  • Creative freedom, control, and the balance of power

    Stephen Colebourne's comment on my last blog post (adding 1 month -1 day to January 29th) have knocked me for six. To avoid thinking about how I might implement the preferred behaviour in Noda Time while still using Joda Time's "engine" I've decided to write about something else...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Wed, Dec 1 2010
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  • Silicon Valley Code Camp 2010

    The Silicon Valley Code Camp is coming up again on October 9th and 10th. There are over 190 sessions and over 1500 people registered so far for this FREE code camp. Topics cover: .NET Silverlight Visual Studio LightSwitch Agile development technologies Cloud computing HTML 5 SharePoint Web Services Windows...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Sat, Sep 25 2010
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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 edition , which contains advice such as "make...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Sep 16 2010
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  • VSLive! Redmond: Source Code For My Talks

    In this prior post , I provided information on registering for the VSLive! conference on August 2-6  in Redmond Washington and on the talks I am presenting at that conference. If you would like a "sneak peak" at the source code for my two talks, you can get it all from my company's...
    Posted to Deborah's Developer MindScape by Deborah Kurata on Sat, Jul 17 2010
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  • Documentation with Sandcastle - a notebook

    (Posted to both my main code blog and the Noda Time blog.) I apologise in advance if this blog post becomes hard to get good information from. It's a record of trying to get Sandcastle to work for Noda Time; as much as anything it's meant to be an indication of how smooth or otherwise the process...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sat, Apr 10 2010
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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 term. Chapter 14 of C# in Depth is about dynamic...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Tue, Nov 17 2009
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  • Just how spiky is your traffic?

    No, this isn't the post about dynamic languages I promise. That will come soon. This is just a quick interlude. This afternoon, while answering a question on Stack Overflow 1 about the difference between using an array and a Dictionary<string, string> (where each string was actually the string...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Nov 16 2009
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  • Noda Time gets its own blog

    I've decided it's probably not a good idea to make general Noda Time posts on my personal blog. I'll still post anything that's particularly interesting in a "general coding" kind of way here, even if I discover it in Noda Time, but I thought it would be good for the project...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Nov 13 2009
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  • What's in a name (again)?

    I have possibly foolishly decided to stop resisting the urge to port Joda Time to .NET. For those of you who are unaware, "use Joda Time" is almost always the best answer to any question involving "how do I achieve X with java.util.Date/Calendar?" It's a Java library for handling...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Nov 5 2009
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  • MVP no more

    It's with some sadness that I have to announce that as of the start of October, I'm no longer a Microsoft MVP. As renewal time came round again, I asked my employer whether it was okay for me to renew, and was advised not to do so. As a result, while I enjoyed being awarded as an MVP, I've...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Oct 1 2009
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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 of very short blog posts, I thought I'd wrap them...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Sep 3 2009
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  • Language proliferation

    I've always been aware that .NET supports multiple languages (obviously) and that Microsoft has been experimenting with this to some extent. It's only recently struck me just to what extent this is the case though. Here's a list - almost certainly incomplete - of .NET languages from Microsoft...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Tue, May 12 2009
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  • Breaking Liskov

    Very recently, Barbara Liskov won the Turing award , which makes it a highly appropriate time to ponder when it's reasonable to ignore her most famous piece of work, the Liskov Substitution (or Substitutability) Principle . This is not idle speculation: I've had a feature request for MiscUtil...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Mar 16 2009
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  • What's in a name?

    T.S. Eliot had the right idea when he wrote "The naming of cats" : The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games ... When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Feb 27 2009
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  • Benchmarking: designing an API with unusual goals

    In a couple of recent posts I've written about a benchmarking framework and the results it produced for using for vs foreach in loops . I'm pleased with what I've done so far, but I don't think I've gone far enough yet. In particular, while it's good at testing multiple algorithms...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Mon, Feb 2 2009
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