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  • 01Mar
    2010
    F# – Combinators And Tail Recursion

    Perhaps combinators and tail recursion are not the best beginner topics in F# but they are the ones I got stuck into pretty much straight away. I blame Google. After reading a few google hits on functional programming I of course found out about combinators and I just had to understand them.

    I finally got it [...]

    f#

    Posted in Development | No Comments »

  • 26Feb
    2010
    What Conroy’s tag cloud really looks like

    Here is a screenshot of what the now infamous Conroy’s tag cloud would look like without the “censorship” attempt:

    It’s certainly not hugely prominent and, frankly, I am disappointed about that. It would have been way funnier if it was the biggest tag in the cloud.

    Here is the greesemonkey script for those that feel inclined to [...]

    conroy streisand-effect

    Posted in web | No Comments »

  • 20Feb
    2010
    Unit Tests As A Refactoring Tool

    So I have this class that is a bit too fat and has no unit tests. It’s way overdue for a clean up. I thought I would investigate how to refactor with unit tests.

    Application

    The application in question is a fairly normal case of a business DSL where the domain rules are expressed in XML and [...]

    csharp tdd unit-testing

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  • 09Feb
    2010
    I Like Words – Or Introduction Into Functional Programming and F#.

    If you hoped to find some sort of functional programming introduction here you are sadly mistaken. This is MY introduction into such said programming. Or it is more like “I’ve read up on F#, my brain exploded and spilled out into this blog post”.

    I would like to start off by comparing programming languages to spoken [...]

    f# functional-programming

    Posted in General | 1 Comment »

  • 04Feb
    2010
    #iitrial Result – What’s Next?

    Now that iiNet has won a a landmark court case, what does that mean for the future of Internet users in Australia?

    copyright iinet

    Posted in General | No Comments »

  • 02Feb
    2010
    Double Dispatch – RTTI vs. Pure Vtable

    As Jeremy Clarkson would say, I have been inundated with a request to performance test a dynamic_cast DD mechanism against the pure vtable one. The results surprised me, both in Debug and Release modes. So here is the dynamic_cast implementation:

    void c_rtti::foobar(a_rtti & a2) { c_rtti* c_ = dynamic_cast<c_rtti*>(&a2); if (c_) { [...]

    c++

    Posted in General | 3 Comments »

  • 01Feb
    2010
    Double dispatch without RTTI

    I liked my StackOverflow answer so much that I decided to make it into a blog post. The question was how to implement a double dispatch mechanism for subclasses of one base class without casting. After dismissing the question as stupid, I spent a bit of time trying to come up with a solution that [...]

    c++

    Posted in Development | 8 Comments »

  • 28Jan
    2010
    Adding schemaLocation attribute to XElement in LINQ to SQL

    I have spent a bit of time trying to figure out how to generate an XML document with all the XML namespace paraphernalia – including schema location. I got stuck trying to create the xmlns:xsi attribute – LINQ to XML kept creating a namespace alias for me and calling it p1 like so:

    <rootNode p1:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" p1="http://www.foo.bar" [...]

    Posted in General | No Comments »

  • 18Jan
    2010
    Apple Tablet – Make the pain stop

    Apple marketing machine has been working in overdrive by continually circulating tablet rumours. Everywhere you go (technology wise) you are bound to hear speculation on what the damn thing is. I can’t wait utill Jan 26 when they finally announce it so we can all be over it.

    This Week in Tech has a dedicated half [...]

    apple technology

    Posted in General | 3 Comments »

  • 08Jan
    2010
    I have a new pet hate browser

    Hating IE6 is so 2003. I hate Chrome now. Maybe I am biased. I only used Chrome to test a layout that has a lot of transparency. It’s quite well known that webkit sucks a bit handling RGBA. But I am getting ahead of myself.

    Everyone kept going on about how fast Chrome after it came [...]

    chrome css firefox ie

    Posted in Development, web | No Comments »

  • Recent Posts

    • F# – Combinators And Tail Recursion
    • What Conroy’s tag cloud really looks like
    • Unit Tests As A Refactoring Tool
    • I Like Words – Or Introduction Into Functional Programming and F#.
    • #iitrial Result – What’s Next?
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