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February 2005 - Posts

Monday, February 28, 2005 8:42 AM

Code metric tools

From an internal question on tools for generating code metrics... Source Monitor NDepend Vil If you know of any others, please add them to the comments. If you have experience with any of these and want to share, please feel free to do that as well.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:58 PM

Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map

I don't think I've linked to this before. Along with pinvoke.net , this is a great resource for learning how to do specific things in the .NET world.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:46 PM

Qualitative Code Differences in Managed Code

I've been asked countless times about the differences in speed between managed and unmanaged code, and here's another good resource in that area. From Rico, Qualitative Code Differences in Managed Code
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:06 PM

Cracking up...

About 15 years ago, I was skiing at Snoqualmie. Coming fast downhill, I caught an edge, popped both skis, and slammed face first into the ground. I couldn't breathe for about two minutes, and came away with a cracked rib. Sunday, I was skiing at Stevens
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Friday, February 18, 2005 1:03 PM

Pacman for the nearsighted

Pacman for the nearsighted
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:34 AM

New Headphones

In search of new headphones and armed with the suggestions that I got in comments to my last post , I spent some time on the exercise page at Headphones.com. After reading that page, and doing a bit more research, I decided to learn more about what Koss
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Monday, February 14, 2005 3:23 PM

Suzanne Cook on the Loader...

Suzanne Cook , a great blogger (and developer) on the CLR team, spends some time talking with the Channel 9 folks .
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Friday, February 11, 2005 1:06 PM

References to value types...

Ian wrote a commen t about being about to return references to value types. Basically, he's asking for a way to build a collection of value types so that they can easily be modified, and to do this, he'd like the indexer to be able to return a reference
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Friday, February 11, 2005 12:47 PM

New agricultural news

(Washington, DC) The USDA today announced the completion of a research program targetted at raising crop yields for lettuce growers, with the identification of a new technique. Paradoxically, it involves trimming off the growth of juvenile plants, in
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:46 AM

Interesting review with James Gosling

This interview came to my attention because of his comments about C++ and .NET, but that's really a pretty small part of what he says. I had the opportunity to listen to Gosling talk at Java One last year, and I was struck by how close his perspective
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:38 AM

Apollo 11 panorama

From our Northwest rocketry mailing list: Apollo 11 Panorama
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:18 PM

Public but not public

Last week, I was talking with one of my friends at the club, and he said that he had written something that was somewhat personal on his blog, and that it bothered him that his manager was bringing it up at meetings as an example of how blogs can show
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:35 PM

Wednesday ride

I took advantage of the nice April weather that we're having in Seattle to go on a lunchtime ride. There's a traditional Wednesday ride at Microsoft that the faster riders go on, where "faster riders" == "riders who also race", which means they're anywhere
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:09 PM

Workout headphones?

I've been having problems with my earbuds coming out when I'm working out, so I'd like to switch to some more conventional headphones, and I'm looking for some suggestions.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:53 AM

Lost in the Zone...

Last night, I finally beat my Twilight Zone, and got into "Lost in the Zone" multiball. I made good progress the first couple of weeks, but recently I'd been hampered by the current location of the machine (due to remodelling), which leaves it slightly
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:36 AM

Why does "using" only import types, not namespaces?

Given a type named: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection The following works: using System.Data.SqlClient; ... SqlConnection connection; But this is an error: using System.Data; ... SqlClient.SqlConnection connection; Why? Well, the rule is that C# only
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