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November 2003 - Posts

Sunday, November 30, 2003 5:08 PM

Barbecued TurkeyAlt

Reading Chris Anderson's post about Deep Fried Turkey  got me thinking... I've been barbecuing turkey for about 5 or 6 years now, and in the spirit of sharing, here's my recipe: Supplies Bird, 1, large. We generally have a lot of people over (~15),
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:48 PM

Have you ever asked yourself "Why am I here?"

I'm not talking about the metaphysical question of whether there is a purpose of existence. I'm speaking of a more concrete concern. Why am I here, sitting at my desk, working on a computer, at 1:48 PST, on a late November day? When I could be here ...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:44 PM

C# PDC Sessions now on line

The C# PDC sessions are now online . Experience what we saw at PDC last month, minus the pervasive campfire smell. You can either download the slides or watch the presentation (using Microsoft Producer, IIRC). I'd suggest watching: TLS320 - Visual C#
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Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:56 PM

C# Sneak Preview Document

We've put a C# Whidbey Sneak Preview document on the dev center. It has a good overview of the new cool stuff that will show up in Whidbey. Note that this isn't an exhaustive list; there are some things that will show up that aren't in the document.
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Friday, November 21, 2003 4:21 PM

Tantric snacking...

This afternoon after lunch I ambled over to our admin's office in search of a small snack. I opted for some m&m's brand chocolate candies with peanuts. As I ate the 7 m&m's that were in the package, I noticed that the package was labelled "Fun
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Friday, November 21, 2003 2:28 PM

What are you planning on using Visualizers for?

One of the big new features for VS in Whidbey is the ability to write custom visualizers for your classes. Visualizers are written in managed code, and present whatever interface they want to view and edit the data. There are some obvious place where
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:40 PM

C# Team Chat in 20 minutes (2PM PST)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:46 PM

As the weather turns colder, a young man's thoughts turn toward...

Holiday lights. The first house that my wife and I bought was in a development with an active homeowner's association. The first year, we got a flier from the association that said: Holiday decoration contest $100 first prize $50 second prize $25 third
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003 6:43 PM

Book Review: The Salmon of Doubt

Like many people, I was saddened when I heard about Douglas Adams' death last May. Of course, I had read Hitchhikers many years ago, and had also read his Dirk Gently series. I also had the unique (well, not *truly* unique) privilege of hearing him
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Friday, November 14, 2003 11:06 AM

New CLR Profiler release

From Jan Gray's blog (Jan is another of the Perp team members), a new release of the CLR Profiler . This tool, which used to be known as the "Allocation Profiler", was written by Peter Sollich, who also happened to be a member of the C# design team for
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Friday, November 14, 2003 12:19 AM

Generics Algorithms

A few weeks ago, Anders walked into the C# design meeting and said, "I think I have a way to get generic algorithms to work with our current support", and then proceeded to outline a scheme on the whiteboard. I dutifully copied it into our design notes
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Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:49 PM

C# Performance

If you're concerned about performance, you should read Rico Mariani's blog . Rico is an architect on the CLR team, and, coincidentally, is one of the developers who interviewed me way back in 1994.  
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:16 AM

Public fields vs properties

 If you search on MSDN, you won't find any general C# coding guidelines. When people have asked how they should write their code, they often get pointed to the  class library design guidelines . There is lots of good advice there, but not
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:04 AM

Note to my younger self

Note to my younger self: Eat better . There won't be any programming content here, so you may choose to ignore this post, though you may regret it in a decade or two. Don't say I didn't warn you. A few weeks before PDC, I started have a problem of a very
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Monday, November 10, 2003 12:26 PM

An Introduction to C# Generics

An Introduction to C# Generics By one of my friends, Juval Lowy, founder of IDesign .    
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Monday, November 10, 2003 11:16 AM

C# Team Chat: New Features in Whidbey

The C# team is hosting a chat on MSDN next week discussing the changes in Visual C#, including both language changes and IDE changes. November 20, 2:00 P.M. Pacific time/5:00 P.M. Eastern time - You can find more information about this chat on http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/
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Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:28 AM

Quiet CPU Fans?

I recently built a music system for the ski cabin (you can only listen to Infinity so many times). It's a Micro-ATX system with a 40Gig drive, a CD ROM, and 256M of memory. More than enough for music. It runs the same custom MFC application that I use
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