Visual Studio 2010 CTP
I finally got to download it. Well I TRIED to download it. It is amazing. I wonder, if they wanted to make it more difficult, would it be possible? First, […]
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Quirks of .NET DateTime type
It looks like subtracting dates in .NET is done purely mechanically, ignoring such subtleties as time zones or daylight savings time. In particular, the UTC flag is ignored when subtracting […]
F#: Must fully qualify class members, even inside the class
It is not the end of the world, but somewhat annoying: class members must always be referred by their fully qualified name, even inside class methods: type Foo = class […]
Boolean operations in F#: spec gone bad
The F# language specification does not talk much about Boolean operations, but it does say that ~~~ is op_LogicalNot and &&& is a “bitwise and”, also called land. The && […]
The Spiral of Progress, or All New Is Actually a Thoroughly Forgotten Old
I am reading a book on WPF (“Programming WPF” by Chris Sells if you want to know), and it says that storing “behavior” and “look” in two different places is […]
My hard drive is fried
My old 80GB Maxtor D740X-6L is kaput. He was 6 years and 4 months old. May he rest in peace.
Original XP install CD does not understand SP2 NTFS partition
My computer crashed today and would not reboot. I.e. windows starts booting and then says it cannot find c:windowssystem32configsystem file. It suggested to boot from the install CD and use […]
WPF Initial Focus
A violation of rule of least astonishment: in Windows Forms the focus is automatically set to the first element in tab order. In WPF (and in ASP.NET) it’s not the […]
WPF : Renaming the Main Form
Finally, after reading books about WPF I started to actually work with it. As usual, I start with complaints 🙂 It turns out that renaming a WPF form, especially main […]
FLAP: the Four Letter Acronym Proliferation
It used to be LAN, WAN, SAN, COM, DOM, ROM, TCP, UDP, FTP, CPM, IBM, JVM, then URL, XML, UML, … But it looks like the era of the TLAs […]