Archive for October, 2009

Definition of C#

C#.NET: A hybrid of C and Java that attempted to lure defectors from the Java camp to the .NET platform. It also provides an easy transition for C++ refugees who are sick of the annoyances of manual memory management and having 9 incompatible ways to implement a simple string. (via Software++)

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Google Wave – A Revolution done wrong!

What might E-Mail look like if it were invented by… Linus Torvalds… the OSS-Community… the XMPP-Guys… or any company without central servers within their buisness plan? To me Google Wave is not much more than an IMAP-Server with integrated CSV-Log and a nice GUI. If you remember Linux Torvalds talk on the GIT at Google [...]

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

C# and implicit conversions

Sometime you decide to create a small datastructure – let’s call it Trinary – which will mostly behave like some standard datastructure – let’s think of Boolean – but with some different behavior from time to time. TO avoid a lot of noisy changes to your codebase it might be better to define [...]

Sunday, October 4th, 2009