C# is rapidly approaching its third decade of life. Originally released in 2000, the language has grown and changed across 7 major versions. Once a knock off of Java in all but name has jumped out ahead on many aspects.
Working as a .NET Professional is a tumultuous rollercoaster ride of emotional highs and crushing lows. It’s likely the same for other communities, with different flavors of success and failures. I have over a decade of .NET development work, and I am here to share some general mantras that have served me well.
Sometimes, in order to get rapid feedback, it’s useful to throw together a prototype that has literally nothing going on in the backend, but lets the user get a sense of how the application would flow. The problem, of course, is that once users see such a thing, they can’t always tell the difference between smoke and mirrors and the real thing.
Finalizers are interesting and dangerous because they are an environment in which everything you know is wrong.
I’ve written a lot about the perils of C# finalizers / destructors
(either name is fine) over the years, but it’s scattered in little bits
over the internet. In this series I’m going to try to get everything in
one place; here are a bunch of things that many people believe about
finalizers, all of which are wrong.
Finalizers are interesting and dangerous because they are an environment in which everything you know is wrong.
I’ve written a lot about the perils of C# finalizers / destructors
(either name is fine) over the years, but it’s scattered in little bits
over the internet. In this series I’m going to try to get everything in
one place; here are a bunch of things that many people believe about
finalizers, all of which are wrong.
With the start of a new season of Game of Thrones, folks are sitting
on the edge of their seats waiting to see what’s coming. Unlike the
Khaleesi who seems to be going nowhere fast, Node.js Tools for Visual
Studio (NTVS) has made some moves recently. Over the last month, we
released Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio, joined the vibrant open source community on GitHub , and created VM images so anyone can quickly get started with NTVS.
A multi level dependent dropdown JQuery plugin that allows nested dependencies. The plugin allows you to convert normal select inputs, whose options are derived based on value selected in another input/or a group of inputs. It works both with normal select options and select with optgroups as well.
C# can be developed and run on more and more platforms, and thanks to the "Roslyn" language engine you can increasingly make your own tooling for it. C# 7 embraces several new features for working better with data, such as tuples and pattern matching. Come see how you can start using C# 7 today!
As a matter of implementation details, C# tuples are implemented on top of ValueTuple types.
Boba.js is a small, easily extensible JavaScript library that makes working
with Google Analytics easier.
It supports the old
ga.js
library as well as the new
analytics.js
library. It has one out of the box function, trackLinks,
and makes tracking everything else child's play. Demo
