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Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:57 AM

Dr. Horrible...

Last night I fixed the quicktime player on my somewhat aging home machine by turning of DirectX acceleration, and the family sat down to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog , which I had purchased through iTunes for the princely sum of $3.99. Dr. Horrible,
Posted by ericgu | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:50 AM

HealthVault data type design...

From the "perhaps this might be interesting" file... Since the end of the HealthVault Solution Providers confererence in early June - and the subsequent required recharging - I've been spending the bulk of my time working on HealthVault data types, along
Posted by ericgu | 3 Comments
Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:04 PM

Seattle Century 2008 ride report

Seattle Century 2008 ride report
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:10 PM

Progrography

Back when I first started listening to music - in the days before there were CDs - if you were cool you bought your music on records, and then taped them onto 90-minute cassettes. You did this because it was hard to flip a record while you were driving,
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:36 PM

#region. Sliced bread or sliced worms?

(editors note: Eric gave me several different options to use instead of sliced worms, but they were all less palatable. So to speak.) Jeff Atwood wrote an interesting post on the use of #regions in code . So, I thought I’d share my opinion. As somebody
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:11 AM

Taking on dependencies

A recent discussion on how to deal with dependencies when you're an agile team got me thinking... Whether you are doing agile or waterfall (and whether the team you are dependent on is doing agile or waterfall), you should assume that what the other group
Posted by ericgu | 5 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 9:51 AM

Why does C# always use callvirt? - followup

I was responding in comments, but it doesn't allow me to use links, so here's the long version: Judah, Yes, marking everything as virtual would have little performance impact. It would, however, be a Bad Thing . It's #3 on my list of deadly sins... ShayEr,
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:22 AM

Why does C# always use callvirt?

This question came up on an internal C# alias, and I thought the answer would be of general interest. That's assuming that the answer is correct - it's been quite a while. The .NET IL language provides both a call and callvirt instruction, with the callvirt
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