jaybaz [MS] WebLog

So now I have GMail , the Google Toolbar , the Google Deskbar , and the Google Desktop . To search MSDN help, I use google . At home, all my computers use Google as their home page. When I want to browse the web on my phone, I use Google Number Search...

When I want to look up an API in the .Net Frameworks, or read about some language construct, I look to MSDN as the repository of such information. But MSDN search is painful, and Google rocks. So I have this link as a shortcut in my browser: http://www...

I wanted to post a short note about all the different job opportunities available today in C#. We have 3 areas of focus: C# IDE (Refactoring, intellisense, etc. - what I work on) C# Compiler (command line compiler + IDE integration) Visual Studio Debugger...

Take another look at Safely firing an event . According to Grant , there’s another issue here. The JITter may optimize away locals in situations where you think want them for thread safety. So the recommendation to make a local copy is not as valuable...

In our bug database, when resolving a bug, you have to select a “Resolution”. Obviously you can resolve as “Fixed”. Other options include: By Design - this isn’t a bug, we meant it to work this way. Not Repro - you were mistaken, this bug doesn’t exist...

This question came up on a customer chat today. It’s probably interesting to a wider audience, so I’m posting it here. I'm currently doing TDD with NUnit. With the upcoming testing tools in Whidbey, how do you see the separation of tests from production...

In the United States , today is Labor Day . Now that I’m a manager, I don’t labor too hard, but I took the day off anyway. We’d talked before about taking the little one on a ferry ride, but hadn’t done it yet. Today seemed like the last good chance to...

Back in da day, I used to go to VC/VS themed conferences and talk about the debugger. Even though I wasn't a very good speaker, the talks were very well received. Lots of technical content, tips for how to be more productive with the debugger. When I...

The idea popped in to my head, so I wrote it down. I’m not sure what it’s good for, but here it is: class C { private C() { } public static class Factory { public static C New() { return new C (); } } } class Program { static void Main ( string [] args...

Earlier I talked about the challenges of shipping software . You want Whidbey, and we want to give it to you. To make that happen, we need to fix the remaining bugs & shut this product cycle down. We want to focus our attention on this work, so we...

...is no less sane than a man talking nonsense , not to himself. The full text of the previous subtitle: It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts aquire speed. The lips aquire stain, the stain becomes...

Related to the questions around TAB and ENTER are some questions around the new “autocomplete on identifier”. (I could swear I’ve blogged about this before, but I can’t seem to find it.) In VS2002 / VS2003, if you type ‘foo.’, you get a completion list...

We're going back and forth on a rather narrow design issue in IntelliSense. Suppose you're writing some code. (It's a stretch, I know.) You go to type an if/else: if (expr) { // ... } else // here { // ... } Here’s what happens when you type ‘else’. 1...

I surely don't need to tell you that we've been working on Whidbey for a while now. You probably wish we would hurry up & ship the thing. Me, too. However, we still have some bugs left to fix. Most were found by our QA, but many came from Ladybug...

Looking in RssView, I see a big mess. There are lots of fields. Some are related to each other & different from others, which suggest an Extract Class. Some are set at initialization time, while others change over time. Clearly there’s a difference...

Dithermaster says “it's *much* easier to find out of they DON'T overlap” and proposes: ! ( (end2 < start1) || (start2 > end1) ); If we apply DeMorgan’s Law, we get: (! (end2 < start1) && !(start2 > end1) ); And (end2 >= start1)...

Yesterday I decided to take a look at the code we shipping in the Beta 1 C# Express SKU for a screen saver. I was pretty disappointed in the quality of the code, so I decided to refactor. I’ve talked about some ideas about coding styles here on this blog...

Ryan Farley talks about comparing date ranges . In his post is this phrase “ First range represented by r1start to r1end and second range represented by r2start to r2end ”. Aha, a code smell! 2 things that are related should have that relationship represented...

My mom just bought another house. She keeps doing this. Nurse by day, real-estate mogul by night/weekend. I hope it works out for her. My brother & I were at the hardware store getting stuff to help her fix the place up, and found that they had spools...

While in PA, we visited two Frank Lloyd Wright homes. The first was Fallingwater . I didn't go inside, instead spending the time roaming the grounds. One of the neat things about the design is that it's hard to see. You can never really look at the whole...

2 days before the trip to the Far East , I lost my wallet. Looks like it fell out of the luggage on my bicycle on the way home. That’s a tough time to lose a wallet, because I really wanted that stuff for the trip. There was also a lot of cash, a lot...

The weekend was spent in rural Pennsylvania , celebrating the wedding of a dear old friend from college. Sunday was to be brunch + visit Kentuck Knob + drive to airport + go home. We left the hotel late, got hung up waiting for the slowest sandwich we...

There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few "A-List" blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don't get noticed. The...

I got to switch offices recently. Just moved a few down the hall, but the new one has a view of trees & bushes, instead of concrete & steel. Here's a picture of the old office, with Bob watching over me: Wow, it's really clear why...

All too often, I send an email and regret it a moment later. Maybe I bumped into Send before I was ready. Maybe I wrote something mean & nasty, and want to rephrase to something more constructive. Maybe I think of a better way to make my point...