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  • Coding in the style of Glee

    As previously mentioned , at CodeMash 2012 I gave a very silly Pecha Kucha talk entitled "Coding in the style of Glee". The video is on YouTube , or can be seen embedded below: (There's also another YouTube video from a different angle.) This post gives the 20 slides (which were just text;...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sun, Jan 15 2012
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  • A Model/View to a Kill (Naked came the null delegate, part 5)

    (I suggest you read the earlier parts of the story first. I'm not claiming it'll make any more sense afterwards, mind you.) Even though Seymour Sharpton's brain was in a spinlock, a low-level interrupt brought him out of his stupor - namely, an enormous motorcycle bursting through the floor...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Dec 10 2010
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  • Code and data

    In a recent Stack Overflow question, I answered a question which started off with a broken XPath expression by suggesting that that poster might be better off using LINQ to XML instead. The discussion which followed in the comments (around whether or not this was an appropriate answer) led me to think...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sun, Aug 29 2010
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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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  • RFID: What I really want it for

    This isn't really coding related, but it's technology related at least. There's been a lot of fuss made about how great or awful RFID is and will be in the future, in terms of usefuless and privacy invasion respectively. There's one use which I haven't seen discussed, but which seems...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Sat, Jan 24 2009
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  • Quick rant: why isn't there an Exception(string, params object[]) constructor?

    This Stack Overflow question has reminded me of something I often wish existed in common exception constructors - an overload taking a format string and values. For instance, it would be really nice to be able to write: throw new IOException( "Expected to read {0} bytes but only {1} were available"...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jan 23 2009
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  • Jaffa bugs

    Currently I'm working on a problem found by one of our testers. Unfortunately, it's hard to reproduce. Inspired by the fact that yesterday our micro-kitchen had jaffa cakes in, I propose that if we're going to be frustrated by bugs like this, we might as well at least mock them. I propose...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Thu, Nov 6 2008
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  • 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 not intended to guarantee that it'll make...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Fri, Jun 20 2008
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  • 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 as those of the runtime, I'd like to see: Null...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Wed, Dec 26 2007
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  • 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 ought to do some more work on the manuscript for...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Wed, Dec 12 2007
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  • 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 they've been mulled over by people who really know...
    Posted to Jon Skeet: Coding Blog by skeet on Tue, Feb 27 2007
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