Forth to the past: C++ “features” that make life hard
This is a continuation of the C++ series, previous post here. When I was working on the move semantics example, I ran into two familiar, yet forgotten “features” of C++ […]
Forth to the past: C++ specification costs top dollar (and why this is bad)
This is a continuation of my previous post about rvalue references. As you may know, official C++ specification is not free: it costs upwards of $100, which, I dare to […]
Forth to the past: C++ rvalue references (T&&)
This week-end I looked at C++ rvalue references and move semantics. Here’s the code, the good stuff is in matrix.h. Rvalue references seem useful, but way too treacherous. Any programming construct that raises […]
What number comes next?
I absolutely detest the “what number/letter/picture comes next” type of puzzles. They are typically based on catching the pattern that the author had in mind when creating the puzzle. Well, […]
WCF vs .NET Remoting
Remoting is about distributed objects, while WCF is about services. Remoting is capable of passing object instances between the client and the server, WCF is not. This distinction is much […]
Dumbification of web sites
In the last month or so I realized that I am having difficulty using GMail. I could not put my finger on it, until it hit me: look at the […]
Stack overflow in Unity DI Container when registering a Decorator
After upgrading to a newer version of Unity, we found that our process began to fail with StackOverflowException. Investigation showed that it happened because the following registration behaves differently depending […]
.NET string comparison is not lexicographical
This Friday I wrote a unit test and to my astonishment I have found that “a” < “A” < “ab”, with .NET InvariantCulture and InvariantCultureIgnoreCase string comparers. That means that .NET […]
Cheap M-amp-Ms!
HTML entities are taking over. Here’s what I saw today in our local Target:
C#: Make base class containing common tests abstract
I was testing various sorting algorithms, so I had a base class that SortTestBase that contained actual tests and accepted the algorithm in the constructor, and derived classes that supplied […]