The trouble with book reviews
I’m currently reading two .NET books: Accelerated C# 2008 (Trey Nash) and Concurrent Programming on Windows (Joe Duffy). I will, in due course, post reviews here. However, the very act of thinking...
View ArticleGoogle release protocol buffers as an open source project
Yesterday the Google open source blog announced a new open source project, to release one of the core pieces of Google infrastructure: protocol buffers. Basically protocol buffers are a way of encoding...
View ArticleJudging a book by its cover (or title)
I’ve ranted about versioning before (and indeed in C# in Depth). I still believe that Microsoft didn’t do the world any favours when they introduced a relatively minor set of changes (just libraries,...
View ArticleCalling Trey Nash…
Okay, this is a slightly odd post, but with any luck it’ll prove successful. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m currently reading through Trey Nash’s “Accelerated C# 2008”. I’m writing down errata as I go,...
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