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Fabulous Adventures In Coding
Going Dark
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over 8 years ago
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Hey all, at the end of this week I'm heading off on vacation for two weeks, I've got a metric boatload of work to get finished before I go, and (thankfully) there are no computers where I'm going. Therefore the blog is probably going to go dark until...
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Some Quick Notes On Variable Scoping
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over 8 years ago
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Eric Lippert
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Here's a question I got a while back: In a VBS or ASP file, the following code doesn't work, which I understand: Option Explicit s = "hello" However, the following code works fine: Option Explicit s = "hello" Dim s Why can we use a variable...
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Quotable Quotations, Part Three
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over 8 years ago
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I'm heads-down today trying to figure out a complicated new feature in Whidbey -- working out the differences between the spec and the code is proving to be quite a challenge! -- so today, another entry in my series on the wit and wisdom of the Visual...
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Reading Code Is Hard, Part Two
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over 8 years ago
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I was thinking about this a bit more and talking with Larry Osterman yesterday, and I came up with some perhaps slightly more germane tips on how to read and debug code that you didn't write. First, it is highly likely that the machine code...
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Reading Code Is Hard
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over 8 years ago
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Escalation Engineer JeremyK asks in his blog this morning : how do you teach people this “art” of digging deep very quickly into unfamilar code that you had no hand in writing? I myself, I come from a very traditional process...
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VBScript Trivia: Bracket Identifiers and Reserved Word Incompatibilities
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over 8 years ago
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I want to spend some time addressing the security implications of private reflection in response to recent comments, but that is a big topic that will take some time, and work is absolutely crazy busy right now. Design Change Request Season opens today...
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A JScript .NET Design Donnybrook, Part Two
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over 8 years ago
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Eric Lippert
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I am totally amused that the comments on yesterday's entry are nigh-isomorphic to the argument that we had over this in October 2000. As noted, f.bar(f); does in fact call the base class function, not the derived class function as some might expect. ...
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A JScript .NET Design Donnybrook
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over 8 years ago
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When you're designing a new programming language, the "main line" cases are easy. It's the "corner" cases that bedevil language designers -- the little fiddly bits where two language features that make perfect sense on their own interact in some weird...
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Aargh! Part Seven
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over 8 years ago
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Q: How do pirates keep their socks from falling down? A: Thumbtacks. I am insanely busy with bug fixing and performance testing today, so once more I'll dip into my endless archive of rants about irksome coding practices I've seen one time too many...
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Rarefied Heights Part Two, Plus Some Random Short Takes
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over 8 years ago
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A few short takes today before I get into the actual subject of today's entry. *************************************************************************** Kids Today My teenaged cousin has apparently accidentally reinvented pseudolocalization...
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What's the Difference between WScript.CreateObject, Server.CreateObject and CreateObject?
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over 8 years ago
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A reader asked me last week I have always used Server.CreateObject in ASP scripts and WScript.CreateObject in WSH scripts, because I was unable to find any *convincing* information on the subject and therefore assumed that they were there...
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