Cyrus' Blather

So we started watching The Vision of Escaflowne with friends. I haven't seen it in like seven years, so it's practically new to me (although i rapidly remembered how much i hate Merle). I'd looked for an Escaflowne model out there but hadn't found anything...

One of my friend's took this shot and put it on on his blog : I liked it a lot because it reminded me of a picture i generated from the ray tracer i wrote: (click on photo for full sized image) And yet even with all my reflections and translucency hullabaloo...

i had an idea for a little bit of code i wanted to write that would give me an opportunity to learn about a lot of bits of technology that i am currently pretty ignorant about. i wanted to create a little service that would help keep my system defragged...

There are many people i work with here that i admire immensely. Devs, PMs, QA, UE, Loc, (hell… even management) all include people who i look up to every day. But of those set of amazing people there’s a special “cream of the crop” area for those who...

Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall CNamedItemTable::AddIfNotSet(class ATL::CStringT<unsigned short,class ATL::StrTraitATL<unsigned short,class ATL::ChTraitsCRT<unsigned short> > > const &,class...

I heard a great expression today when talking with another team here: "Code that's old enough to drink." In other words, code that's been around for more than 21 years. Now if that were teens, i'd make some joke about it be temperamental and "trying to...

So how many of you can search for your name on google and have it show up as the first hit? I can do it with my last name, and i'm pretty high up there with my first. Eventually i will become the most important "Cyrus" out there as far as google is concerned...

On a whim i did a search in Google to see what it would find for cslangsvc.dll. I was just trying it out to see how well it did with filename searches since it used to be in the past that Search sites would usually split that into "cslangsvc" and "dll...

In the spirit of the post on Covariant Return Types, and "Death by a thousand cuts", i thought I'd mention yet another intensely aggravating part of .Net development. This one isn't about C# per se, but C# is affected by it. I'm going to use a real world...

Could it be? Might we all be so lucky? Is it just some elaborate hoax? Could they ever do it justice in a movie? Can i stop giggling and jumping up and down like a schoolgirl? Will the rhetorical questions ever end?

As you might have noticed from my posts in the past I really dislike it when there is a part of the C# language that seems to be unnecessarily lacking. For example, not being able to take a delegate to a property. It's a perfectly reasonable thing to...

I got a chance to do a little modeling this week. It was a lot of fun and a very relaxing task for the evening. I was also really thrilled with the results and i want to do a lot more of this. You start with a set of pieces as above. They are very rough...

Only 70 votes so far for covariant return types in C# (and all .Net languages)!! :-( I thought that there was a lot more interest than that. Here's a chance for you to really show what you're interested in seeing. If you haven't voted yet, and you do...

Intro: So i was having a conversation with the team about a small change I'd like to make to C#. Right now, C# has the concept of "contextual keywords". I.e. identifiers that can have special meaning when used in special locations, but which are otherwise...

So i got this message from a friend on the east coast: until ahe skight thunders torm And it was one of the first times that i've ever had to do a double take when reading an IM from a friend. The problem is that it's soooo close to english that my mind...

The weather here is awful, and i did most o fmy celebrating last night since it was more conducive than a Sunday night, but still: Happy New Year to all!

We've been discussing covariant return types again and wanted to present some good numbers as to how many people really want this feature. i.e. is it just crazy old me, or do other developers hit this. If you do want it, please go to http://lab.msdn.microsoft...

So we were taking a look a the C# language service in VS 2002 and 2003 and we were comparing it to VS 2005 and we got quite a shock. So in 2002 the language service weighed in at exactly 700k. (well, not exactly, but close enough for the purposes of this...

Ok Alex, I'll take "Anime movies or series containing 'Blue'" for $200 Alex: This 1997 psychological thriller featured a pop singer turned actress' life turn nightmare when she is haunted by an obsessed fan and the shattered remains of her past Me: What...

So in our drive to get beta2 out the door we've been continuously raising the bar on what sort of changes are allowed to the codebase. As you can well imagine there is risk with pretty much any change and at a certain point the need to keep the product...

bool CInclusionCriteriaMatcher::NestedTypesMatch() { CInheritance inheritanceTree; if (SUCCEEDED(inheritanceTree.Initialize(this->type, true /*fInherit*/ ))) { while (inheritanceTree.MoveNext()) { if (NestedTypesMatch(inheritanceTree.Current())) {...

Ok, the Xine install has been going on for like 30 minutes now and doesn't seem to have any end in site (it's currently configuring libxine1). I'm also not seeing items saved to my desktop actually showing up on my desktop. (i can see them from inside...

Ok, wanted to install Xine, based on the recommendation of one of the posters. I opened synaptic and got a message saying dpkg had been interrupted and i needed to run: "dpkg --configure -a" Ok, slightly offputting. If i'm a a regular user i'm going to...

So i noticed a new icon on my status bar tonight. Nestled between the GAIM status icon and the Network status icon was a completely unidentifiable blob. When i hovered over it i saw "There are 173 Updates available". A-ha! I'd now dicovered the "synaptic...

Ok, i desperately need a good media player for linux. Something that plays WMAs and M4As and is controllable using my media player keys on the keyboard.