Do you Care About Your Code?


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A true master craftsman of any profession takes pride in doing a great work. A masterpiece is recognized by the combination of a great total impression and worked out details. Most programmers tend to think that their latest code is a masterpiece. I even went as far as starting this blog, to show off all… Continue reading Do you Care About Your Code?

Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods

Extension methods were first introduced with LINQ in C#3.0. They are just a syntactic construct, but as we’ll see in this post they can make a huge difference. What’s easier to read of these two? string[] wishList1 = Enumerable.ToArray( Enumerable.Select(Enumerable.Where(Animals, a => a.StartsWith("A")), a => string.Format("I want a {0}.", a)));   string[] wishList2 = Animals.Where(a… Continue reading Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods

Introducing Ads

Since I started this blog about six months ago the number of visitors has grown for each month. I now have about the same number of weekly visitors as I used to have per month. Geographically there are readers from all over the world. There have been visitors from  about 100 different countries. I’m of… Continue reading Introducing Ads

Speed up debugging using the DebuggerDisplayAttribute

Today’s post is written by guest blogger Albin Sunnanbo. He’s a great friend and source of inspiration and also one of the best developers I know. It was Albin that first introduced me to LINQ, EF Migrations and jQuery that I now use daily. In this post Albin shows how to use the [DebuggerDisplay] attributes… Continue reading Speed up debugging using the DebuggerDisplayAttribute