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I was toying last night with my work-in-progress WPF version of Comicster , specifically looking at file formats. I want this version to easily support opening and saving collections to multiple file formats, and the logical way to do that was via some sort of plug-in system. Eventually (and by that...
A comment on a recent post of mine on Stack Overflow suggested that I replace my "for" loop with a more "modern" version using "foreach" and Enumerable.Range. In other words: // replace this for ( int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { } // with this foreach ( var i in Enumerable...
I just finished listening to a recent episode of .NET Rocks! featuring Michele Leroux Bustamante in which she talks about claims-based identity and, more specifically, Windows CardSpace . Michelle is obviously very knowledgeable about the subject and is really evangelising the technology, but as I was...
Not a lot going on in my life right now, which you’ve probably discerned from my lack of updates. However something interesting happened last night. At about 4am we were awoken by a sound from outside the house. It was almost the sound of the security screen door banging in the wind, except that the...
Here are some random thoughts about our trip to the US with both sets of parents. The flight to New Zealand was over fairly quickly, but we had a four hour wait in New Zealand airport before our next flight to LA. I was looking forward to that, thinking that there’d be plenty of shops and a few...
I was going to entitle this post "Holiday Ending", but then I remembered that over here it's called a "vacation" so I changed it. I'm writing this from a PC in our hotel lobby in San Francisco. It's our last day here after a twelve night stay that has felt like a month or more. It...
One last blog post before we fly out to the US on Saturday. Things I'll miss while I'm away: Constantly monitoring my reputation on Stack Overflow Constantly refreshing Twitter to see what people (some of whom I've never even met) are up to AWDNUG next Tuesday, where Kym will be talking about SQL Server...
Someone on Stack Overflow today asked how to dynamically instantiate a type that doesn't have a default constructor on the .NET Compact Framework. As an example, let's say you have a type called "Foo" which takes some parameters in its constructor: public class Foo { public Foo( string s, int i) { /...
Those who know me well enough know that I hate, with the fire of a thousand suns, companies whose business is based on mobile phone ringtones, SMS scams etc. To me they're only one step up from spammers, and it burns me every time I see one of their horrifically-bad advertisements on TV. The other day...
It occurred to me this morning that I haven't made a simple "personal news" post here for a while, so here's all the goss. This weekend was my mother-in-law Di's 60th birthday, and we went out to the local Chinese restaurant to celebrate. Chinese food is a little bit passe nowadays if you ask me, but...