DotNetRocks
Ayende and the If Loop
Dot Net Rocks just released the OSS Panel from DevTeach, I had made some comments there, including the GPL'ed If Loop statement. Listening to it, I sound aweful, I had no idea it was that bad.
The OR/M Smackdown at DotNetRocks
It is out, although I have yet to hear the edited version, the real discussion was very interesting. Go check it out.
Comments on DNRTV #16
I just finished watching DNR TV #16, in which Carl is talking about async programming.Some of the best DotNetRocks episode was with Carl and the host of the moment just goofing around and talking tech, so I had high expectations of this.I'm not a VB programmer, and it's interesting to see how a VB guy works, and it even includes commentry.One thing that I don't understand is this construct:Try ' do something that can throwCatch ThrowEnd TryIsn't this a no op? This video reminds me of a Joel On Software article about how hard it is to write a function...
Great DNR Quote
I was listening to DNR #170 and Tim Huckaby (Am I the only one who read tha Huckleberry?). There was a moment there when Tim said: "Microsoft is never going to ship..." and there was a pause where I thought "WTF?!" and then he continues "another product as bad as Windows ME". This sentiment goes a round of appluase from the crowd (which include Me and I, incidently). I keep recalling a quote: "No one will remember if you were late, but they will remember if you were bad."
DotNetRocks #169, Second Take: O/RM
I listened to the rest of the DotNetRocks
episode 169 with Rocky Lhotka. This time, I wanted to comment about the part
where Rocky talks about ORM. Before everything else, I would like to comment on
something he said about Microsoft and O/RM.
He said that most O/RM are using Reflection, and that only Microsoft can
solve this issue, because the can modify the CLR to allow direct access to
private fields.
I wanted to note that there is already such a thing in .Net 2.0, and it is
called LCG (Lightwieght Code Generation), and it basically means that you can
inject a...
DotNetRocks #169 and TDD
I was listening yesterday to DotNetRocks episode 169 with Rocky Lhotka, and I was muttering "WTF??!!" throughout the first part of the show. The issue that I had was Rocky talking about TDD and saying stuff that simply didn't match the reality, not by a long shot. Jeffery Palermo post about it as well, by the way. Rocky's main objections seem to be:When you are working Test First, you don't get intelli sense for classes and methods that don't exists, and that seem to hurt his development style. ...
I Love Being Pwop Ambassador!
If you're not familiar with the term, Pwop Ambassadors are geeks that donate bandwidth to distribue the files that Pwop produce using bittorrent. And Pwop is the company that produce shows like: Dot Net Rocks Mondays Hanselminutes Dnr TV ...
Boo & DotNetRocks
Fact: DotNetRocks makes you a better programmer.Boo makes you a great programmer.
What happens when you combine them together? The entire dot net rocks archive!I keep going to the Dot Net Rocks site for more stuff, but because I listen faster than they record (except during the road trip {Hi, when is the next one due :-)}), I've started to dig into their archives. But they are lots of shows, and there doesn't seem to be any torrent for all of the files. After downloading a single show for the tenth time, I decide to put some code into action, instead...