Ever since the Google App Engine was released, I’ve been fascinated with cloud computing frameworks. The vision is to have a website that can scale from nothing to infinity, without having to worry about servers, viruses, uptime, etc. I’ve finally…
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Convenient Synchronization with Mesh and DropBox
A couple of weeks ago, I finally signed up for DropBox. If you’re unfamiliar with the service, it’s a file synchronization service. You install a client on multiple machines, and you get a special folder (aka a dropbox). When you…
Value type comparison pitfall with == vs Equals
I recently ran into a situation that momentarily confused me, because it was non-intuitive to me at first. I’m working on a class that tracks changes made in UI controls in Silverlight, and I wrote code similar to the following:…
Is Quality Important?
Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood stirred up some debate when they said “Quality just doesn’t matter that much”. At first, I was a little outraged. My entire development process is built around quality. Without it, airplanes would fall from the…
Using C# Yield for Readability and Performance
I must have read about "yield" a dozen times. Only recently have I began to understand what it does, and the real power that comes along with it. I’m going to show you some examples of where it can make…
