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  • OT: You Can Save Lives

    I debated about posting this on a technical blog and abusing the relationship with my subscribers, but I believe that the benefits outweigh the negatives. Lives are stake, people are suffering, and many of YOU can help. I hope you agree that this post is worth it. I know many of you have families and several of you are expecting a new addition. I would...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 05-10-2008

  • LINQ query operators: lose that foreach already!

    Now that .NET 3.5 is out with all its LINQ query operator goodness, I feel like going on a mean streak of trashing a lot of our (now) pointless foreach loops. Some example operations include: Transformations Aggregations Concatenations Filtering As I mentioned in my last post , temporary list creation is a great pointer to find opportunities for losing...
    Posted to GrabBag<T> (Weblog) by bogardj on 05-09-2008

  • Don't Do That

    Over lunch today, I learned about one of the company's recent acquisitions. Here's the short of it: The production system has between 6k-7k different Access databases (databases, not tables) Since the app creates new databases on the fly, no one is sure which are production dbs Don't ever do that. Please. And no, I couldn't make this...
    Posted to Evan Hoff, Professional Code Junkie (Weblog) by hoffe on 05-08-2008

  • NAnt script for determining whether an assembly is registered in the GAC

    A friend of mine, Kevin Miller , recently put out a public call for anyone who had some NAnt magic for detecting whether a given assembly is in the GAC or not. I had written something like this a year or so ago and I thought I'd share it with everyone in the hopes it might help you. Standard disclaimer: I don't guarantee that this works, I don't...
    Posted to Chad Myers' Blog (Weblog) by chadmyers on 05-08-2008

  • Enhancing mappers with LINQ

    The "big 3" higher-order functions in functional programming are Filter, Map and Reduce. When looking at the new C# 3.0 LINQ query operators, we find that all three have equivalents : Filter = Where Map = Select Reduce = Aggregate Whenever you find yourself needing one of these three higher-order functions, just translate them into the correct...
    Posted to GrabBag<T> (Weblog) by bogardj on 05-08-2008

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