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26Feb
2010 What Conroy’s tag cloud really looks likeHere 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 [...]
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20Feb
2010 Unit Tests As A Refactoring ToolSo 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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?
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02Feb
2010 Double Dispatch – RTTI vs. Pure VtableAs 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_) { [...]
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01Feb
2010 Double dispatch without RTTII 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 [...]