Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
A new Anders Interview...
Anders talks with the .NET Developer's Journal. From Brad.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/15/2005
New High tech product thats sure to please
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/10/2005
Flow, coding, and math
Rory wrote a post entitled "Whole Brain Coding" a couple of days ago, in which he asserts that...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2005
Field names...
There are three common choices for field name conventions in C# code: No prefix ("string name;")...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2005
Cyrus takes on Hungarian Notation
Cyrus takes on Hungarian Notation I've written a fair bit of code that both uses Hungarian, and code...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/09/2005
Updated version of my book coming...
In the spring before C# was first disclosed, I ended up, through a curious juxtaposition of events,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/08/2005
What's wrong with this picture?
From right to left, Ford, Marvin, Trillian, and Zaphod. If you don't know what this is a picture of,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/07/2005
Web-based community sites...
I'm looking for a place to host a site with some information for our homeowner's association. I'm...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/04/2005
My next sport...
A team member sent this around, and it seems like I would be a natural (though, unfortunately, my...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/04/2005
Free Ebooks...
Apress has decided to make some of their back catalog available as free downloadable e-books. This...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/04/2005
Generics and CLS compliance...
This is dated news by now, but since I missed it, you might have as well. It was decided back in...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/03/2005
PowerCollections Video
Gus points to a nice video with Peter Golde (ex C# language designer and compiler dev lead) about...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/03/2005
Job openings on the MovieMaker team
The Windows Movie Maker team has a couple of job openings right now. If you're interested in working...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 03/01/2005
Code metric tools
From an internal question on tools for generating code metrics... Source Monitor NDepend Vil If you...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/28/2005
Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map
I don't think I've linked to this before. Along with pinvoke.net, this is a great resource for...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/23/2005
Qualitative Code Differences in Managed Code
I've been asked countless times about the differences in speed between managed and unmanaged code,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/23/2005
Cracking up...
About 15 years ago, I was skiing at Snoqualmie. Coming fast downhill, I caught an edge, popped both...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/22/2005
Pacman for the nearsighted
Pacman for the nearsighted
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/18/2005
New Headphones
In search of new headphones and armed with the suggestions that I got in comments to my last post, I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/15/2005
Suzanne Cook on the Loader...
Suzanne Cook, a great blogger (and developer) on the CLR team, spends some time talking with the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/14/2005
References to value types...
Ian wrote a comment about being about to return references to value types. Basically, he's asking...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/11/2005
New agricultural news
(Washington, DC) The USDA today announced the completion of a research program targetted at raising...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/11/2005
Interesting review with James Gosling
This interview came to my attention because of his comments about C++ and .NET, but that's really a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/09/2005
Apollo 11 panorama
From our Northwest rocketry mailing list: Apollo 11 Panorama
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/09/2005
Public but not public
Last week, I was talking with one of my friends at the club, and he said that he had written...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/08/2005
Wednesday ride
I took advantage of the nice April weather that we're having in Seattle to go on a lunchtime ride....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/02/2005
Workout headphones?
I've been having problems with my earbuds coming out when I'm working out, so I'd like to switch to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/02/2005
Why does "using" only import types, not namespaces?
Given a type named: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection The following works: using...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 02/01/2005
Macros
In the C# design, there are a number of cases where we decided on more limited functonality than C++...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/31/2005
The infinite cat project
Today, somebody sent around a link to a video of cats doing funny things. Then somebody else sent...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/28/2005
C# Coding Guidelines
Brad publishes some of the C# coding guidelines that are used inside MS.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/27/2005
More on C# and C++
Thanks for all the comments - I'd like to expand on a few of them. Cross-Platform When I wrote the...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/27/2005
C# vs C++
[Update: Changed a misplaced "C#" to a "C++" in the tools section. Thanks, Nick] At the class a took...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/26/2005
Weird fact of the day...
There are over 19,000 articles in the Esperanto edition of Wikipedia..
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/25/2005
Wanted: Snow
Washington ski area looking to purchase 10,000 acre-feet of snow to supplement our meager natural...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/24/2005
Software Dinner
I went to the Joel on Software dinner last night at Crossroads mall. At least, I think it was for...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/19/2005
True Lies - the GNN Book
I happened to pick this one up at the library when I was there last. (aside - it's pretty weird to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/17/2005
Another new C# PM blogger
Raj Pai, my previous boss, has started blogging.
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/17/2005
Naked in Baghdad
I just finished reading "Naked in Baghdad", written by NPR correspondent Anne Garrels. Anne spent...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/13/2005
C#: What's wrong with this code #5 - Discussion
Thanks for all the comments. As a refresher, here's the code that we were looking at: enum...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/10/2005
C# PUM blogs...
PUM == Product Unit Manager, or the person in charge of a whole group. Scott Wiltamuth is the PUM of...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/10/2005
Excellent
Note that you'll have to speak the title using a Jeff Spicoli voice (as performed by Sean Penn in...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/10/2005
Fred and his 5.2 Madone
Last fall, I wrote a post about being an aspiring Fred, where a "Fred" is someone with more bike...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/10/2005
Anders on TheServerSide.Net
Anders on TheServerSide.Net from Dan...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/07/2005
New toy...
I'm going to pick up a new purchase tonight? What will it be??? What does a south-of-40 guy in...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 01/07/2005